James Asher Godley

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Academic Appointments

Lecturer

Contact

James.A.Godley@dartmouth.edu

Sanborn, Room 006

HB 6032

Department(s)

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, Humanities 1+2, English and Creative Writing, MALS Program

Education

B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. University at Buffalo

Selected Publications

"The Enjoyment of Being Had: The Aesthetics of Masquerade in The Confidence Man," Philosophies 9.2 (2024)

"The Con and the Primal Horde," Cultural Critique 122 (Winter 2024)

"Foreclosures of Finitude: On Kiarina Kordela's Epistemontology," Diacritics 49.3 (2021)

"Heaven as a Potential Space: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Afterlife Novels," chapter in: Nineteenth Century Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven (Routledge, 2019)

Co-editor and introduction, with Joel Goldbach, Inheritance in Psychoanalysis (SUNY Press, 2018)

"Infinite Grief: Freud, Hegel, and Lacan on the Thought of Death," Angelaki 23.6 (2018): 93-110

Works In Progress

Mourning's Unrest: The Afterlife of Civil War in Postbellum American Literature

In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning (anthology; co-edited with Klaus Mladek)

Courses