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Eugene Holland, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Studies

Department of Comparative Studies: http://comparativestudies.osu.edu/
Department of French and Italian: http://frit.osu.edu/

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442 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: holland.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-688-5437
Fax: 614-292-7403

General Background:
Education

Ph.D. in French, University of California, San Diego

Teaching and Research

Social theory, modern French literature and culture, citizenship.

Eugene Holland (Department of French and Italian) specializes in social theory and modern French literature, history, and culture. In addition to a number of articles on poststructuralist theory and particularly the work of Gilles Deleuze, he has published a book on Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and an Introduction to Schizoanalysis (Routledge, 1999), and is currently working on books on citizenship and perversions.

Publications Linked:

"A Schizoanalytic Reading of Baudelaire: The Modernist as Postmodernist," Postmodern Culture 4:1 (1993)

"Spinoza and Marx," in Cultural Logic 2:1 (Fall 1998).


Books:

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis, [Routledge, 1999]

Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism [Cambridge University Press, 1993]

Selected Articles:
  1. “Nonlinear Historical Materialism and Postmodern Marxism,” Culture, Theory, Critique 47:2 (2006): 181–196.
  2. “Nomadologie affirmative et machine de guerre,” Symposium 10:1 (2006): 353-62.
  3. “Utopian Thought in Deleuze and Guattari,” in Milner, Ryan and Savage, eds., Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia, North Carlton, AU: Arena Publications, 2006): 217-42.
  4. “Nomad Citizenship and Global Democracy,” in Gilles Deleuze and the Social: Toward a New Social Analytic, eds. Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sorensen, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
  5. “Affective Citizenship and the Death-State,” in Deleuze and the Contemporary World, eds. Adrian Parr and Ian Buchanan, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
  6. “Desire,” in Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, Charles J. Stivale, Ed. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005): 53-62.
  7. “Studies in Applied Nomadology: Jazz Improvisation and Postcapitalist Markets,” in Deleuze and Music, Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda, Eds. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004): 20-35.
  8. “Optimism of the Intellect…,” Strategies 16:2 (2003): 121-31.
  9. "Representation and Misrepresentation in Postcolonial Literature and Theory," forthcoming in Research in African Literatures.
  10. "On Some Implications of Schizoanalysis," Strategies 15:1 (2002): 27-40.
  11. "Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death,"in Deleuze and Literature , Ian Buchanan, ed. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000): 251-62.
  12. "Infinite Subjective Representation and the Perversion of Death," Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 5:2 (2000): 85-91.
  13. "Spinoza and Marx," in Cultural Logic 2:1 (Fall 1998).
  14. "From Schizophrenia to Social Control," in Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture , Eleanor Kaufman, ed. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998): 65-73.
  15. "Marx and Poststructuralist Philosophies of Difference," South Atlantic Quarterly , 96:3 (Summer 1997): 525-41.
  16. "Schizoanalysis and Baudelaire: Some Illustrations of Decoding at Work," in Deleuze: A Critical Reader, Paul Patton, ed. (Oxford: Blackwells, 1996): 240-56.
  17. "A Schizoanalytic Reading of Baudelaire: The Modernist as Postmodernist," Postmodern Culture 4:1 (1993)