College of Humanities People
Robert Hughes, Assistant Professor
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
Office Information
2058 Founders Hall, 1179 University Dr, Newark, OH, 43055
Email: hughes.1021@osu.edu
Phone: 740-366-9143
Office Hours:
Winter 2010: Monday/Wednesday 3:45-4:45pm
2058 Founders Hall, 1179 University Dr, Newark, OH, 43055
Email: hughes.1021@osu.edu
Phone: 740-366-9143
Office Hours:
Winter 2010: Monday/Wednesday 3:45-4:45pm
General Background:
Robert Hughes holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Emory University, 2003) and teaches a range of courses in literary theory and in American literature to 1865. His research concerns the intersection of ethics and aesthetics in art, literature, and continental philosophy. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, and elsewhere. His co-edited book, AFTER LACAN: CLINICAL PRACTICE AND THE SUBJECT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS (SUNY Press, 2002), is a well-received collection of essays theorizing the Lacanian clinic. His monograph, ETHICS, AESTHETICS, AND THE BEYOND OF LANGUAGE (SUNY Press, 2010), considers how and why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental post-Romantic writers so often turn to art when they wish to write about ethics. His current book project is entitled BADIOU AND THE EVENT OF ART. Figures of continuing fascination for Dr. Hughes include, on the American side, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. On the continental side, he works with Friedrich Schiller, F.W. Schelling, and the Jena Romantics, as well as with Martin Heidegger and the French post-Heideggerian tradition in thinking about art and ethics--figures like Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, and Alain Badiou. Dr. Hughes is coordinator of the Lacan Study Group at Ohio State University.
American Literature to 1900
