Kevin Lamb, Ph.D.,
Cornell University, Department of English
 

Kevin Lamb received his Ph.D. in English from Cornell University in August 2007. His interests include comparative (Anglo-American, French, German, Russian) modernism, queer studies, critical theory, and philosophy and literature. His article “Foucault’s Aestheticism” appears in Diacritics 35.2 (Summer 2005), and his essay “Undoing the Doer: Modernist Criticism and Cavell’s ‘Illustrious’ Style” is forthcoming in an edited collection on Stanley Cavell and literary criticism. He is also co-editor with Jonathan Culler of Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena (Stanford UP, 2003), a volume that deals with allegations of obscurity leveled against recent cultural theorists.

As a fellow, Kevin is finishing a book based on his doctoral dissertation. Titled Subject to Style: Impersonality and the Transformation of Modernist Criticism, the book constructs a genealogy of authorial impersonality from the Victorian fin de siècle to the present, focusing on the critical writings of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Stanley Cavell. He is also at work on a second book, tentatively titled New Hellenisms: Self-Government, Modernism, and the Modernity of Greek Thought, which studies the relation between virtue and government in modernist literature and philosophy.

He is teaching a seminar on "Subjects of Desire: Law, Literature, Film" in the spring.

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