Vincent J. Hausmann
Associate Professor of English
April 2011
vincent.hausmann@furman.edu
Furman University
Department of English
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613
(864) 294-3158
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1996.
M.A. in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1991.
B.A. in English; B.A. in Honors, Villanova University.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Film and Film Theory
Visual Culture Studies
Theory: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Queer Theory, Gender Studies
Comparative Studies
Literature and Film
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of English, Furman University, Department of English, 2005-present.
Assistant Professor of English, Furman University, Department of English, 1999-2005.
Co-editor, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, an electronic scholarly journal <www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl>, 1998-present.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Villanova University, Core Humanities Program, 1997-1999.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Department of Humanities, 1991-1999.
Instructor, Bryn Mawr College, Department of English, 1990-1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Book
Cinema, Technologies of Visibility, and the Reanimation of Desire (New York, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Exploring the dead/alive figure in such films as The Ring, American Beauty, and The Elephant Man, the book charts the spectacular reduction of psychic life and assesses calls for shoring up psychic/social spaces that transfer bodily drives to language. Drawing on expansive histories of cinema–including its relation to scientific/medical visual culture’s tracking of the human/animal body, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and sexuality studies–the book demonstrates that conceptions of psychic (re)animation remain interwoven with notions of cinematic motion, and emerge, embedded, in narratives of relations among analog and digital arts/technologies.
Articles
“Envisioning the [W]hole World Behind Things: Denying Otherness in American Beauty,” Camera Obscura, 55: 19, Vol. 1 (May 2004), 112-149.
“Looking for Shelter: [Re]covering the Subject in [an Other] Art,” Literary Modernism and Photography, ed., Paul Hansom, Greenwood Press (2002), 151-175.
“Joseph Conrad and the Arts of Letters,” Conradiana, 31: 3 (Fall 1999), 147-171.
“Cinematic Inscriptions of Otherness: Sounding a Critique of Subjectivity,” Journal of Film and Video, 50:1 (Spring 1998), 20-41.
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS DELIVERED (SELECTED LISTING)
“‘Thinking (with Julia Kristeva and Gore Verbinski) in Dark Times,’” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.
“The Affective Power of the Humanities,” International Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities, Columbia University, February 2007.
“The Ethics of Witnessing: Trauma and the ‘Chain of Memory,’” American Academy of Religion Conference, Philadelphia, November 2005.
“Disciplining Film,” Symposium on Film and Media Studies in the Liberal Arts, Middlebury College, October 2004.
“Envisioning the [W]hole World Behind Things: Denying Otherness in Sam Mendes’s American Beauty,” Narrative: An International Conference, Burlington, April 2004.
“Envisioning the [W]hole World Behind Things: Denying Otherness in Sam Mendes’s American Beauty,” Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference, February 2004.
Chair, Panel: “Lesbian Desire in the Heterosexual Matrix,” Associated Colleges of the South Women’s/Gender Studies Conference, Greenville, March 2004.
“Technology in the End of the World: Wim Wenders, Video and HDTV,” Southeast Modern Language Association Conference, Birmingham, November 2000.
“Phantasmatic Voyages: From Freudian Text to Screen in Now Voyager,” Philadelphia Association of Psychoanalysis, April 1999.
Chair, “Contemporary German Cinema,” NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, April 1999.
“The Dream at the End of the World: Totalizing Vision in the Cinema of Wim Wenders,”
NEMLA Conference, Baltimore, April 1998.
“Sky Writing: Cinécriture in Contemporary Italian Cinema,” NEMLA Conference, Philadelphia, April 1997.
“The Spell of the Archaic in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci,” Literature/Film Association
Conference, Towson State University, November 1996.
“Joseph Conrad and the Arts of Letters,” Literature/Film Association Conference, Salisbury State College, December 1995.
SELECTION OF COURSES TAUGHT
Screening Film Noir
Heavenly Creatures: Stardom and Identity
Film Analysis
Critical and Cultural Theory
Literary Feminisms
English Senior Seminar: Four Filmmakers (Hitchcock, Varda, Egoyan, Haynes)
Humanities 22: Theory, Violence, and the Sacred
Interpretive Strategies
Advanced Composition: The Photograph
Reading Literature: Representing Disaster
Reading Literature: Scenes of Instruction
First Year Seminar: Spectacular Imaginings
First Year Writing Seminar: Alien Visions
ACADEMIC SERVICE (SELECTED LISTING)
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2010-present.
Member, Diversity Committee, 2009-present.
Member, LGBT Committee, 2009-present.
Member, Academic Discipline Committee, 2007-2009.
Member, English Dept. Eighteenth-Century Search Committee, 2010.
Member, English Dept. Victorian Search Committee, 2006.
Member, English Dept. Documentary/Creative Non-fiction Search Committee, 2007.
Member, Furman English Dept. Curriculum Review Committee, 1999; 2006-2007.
Member, Furman Social Justice Committee (Mellon funded), 2005-6.
Co-Founder, Furman University Faculty Seminar Group, 2002.
Board Member and Discussion Leader, Upstate Film Society, 1999-2004.
Moderator, Furman Student Independent Film Society, 2003-present.
Lecturer/Discussion Leader, Furman Cultural Life Program (film series), 1999-present.
Lecturer/Discussion Leader, Greenville County Library Film Series, 2003-2004.
Referee, Twentieth Century Literature, 2001-present.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
NEH course development grant (“Screening Film Noir”), 2008.
NEH course development grant (“Heavenly Creatures: Stardom and Identity”), 2007.
NEH course development grant (“Violence and the Sacred”), 2003-2004.
Furman Research and Professional Growth grant, Summer 2001-02; Spring 2006.
William Goldman Scholarship, 1994-1995.
College Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, 1990-1991.
College Scholarship, Bryn Mawr College, 1987-1990.
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
LANGUAGES
French, Italian (reading knowledge)
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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Vincent J. Hausmann is an Associate Professor of English at Furman University, where he teaches cinema studies and literary theory. He has published on Bernardo Bertolucci, Joseph Conrad, and Paul Bowles, and coedits Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature.