Doctor Chris Eagle

Biography

Chris Eagle's research reflects his longstanding interest in the synthesis of philosophy, literature, and linguistics. In his doctoral work, he traced the history of theories of the perfect language, from Plato's Cratylus to the revival of perfect language theories in the works of Joyce, Proust, and Heidegger. Currently, he is working on a book project that studies the impact of aphasiology and speech pathology on modern writing. Specifically, he is interested in representations of speech disorders like stuttering and aphasia in the works of Zola, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Kesey, Mishima, et al. Another side project he is engaged in at present is a study of acts of naming in the novels of Cormac Mccarthy.

Before coming to UWS, Chris was a postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities at the California Institute of Technology. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at the Antwerp Joyce Center as well as the Institute of Texts and Modern Manuscripts in Paris. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Chris is available for supervision in areas including philosophy and literature, linguistic and semiotic approaches to literature, speech pathology, Joyce Studies, Proust Studies, Heidegger Studies, Modernism, Nineteenth-century French Literature, and also American detective (or 'noir') fiction and film.

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Awards and Recognition

Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2009

Fulbright Fellowship, Institute of International Education, 2007

B.A.E.F. Fellowship, Belgian American Educational Foundation, 2006

Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2005

U.C. Berkeley English Department Fellowship, 2002

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Mellon Foundation, 2001

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Selected Publications

Our Day at Triv and Quad: Ruskin and the Liberal Arts in Finnegans Wake. James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 46:2, Winter 2010, pp. 115-134.

Right Names: On Heidegger’s Closet Cratylism. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 14: 1, Fall 2009, pp. 57-75.

Thou Serpent That Name Best: Adamic Language and Obscurity in Paradise Lost. Milton Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 3, October 2007, pp. 183-94.

On ‘this’ and ‘that’ in Proust: Deixis and Typologies in the Recherche. Modern Language Notes, Volume 121, September 2006, pp. 989-1008.

The Essence of Fact: A Wildean Dialogue. Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature, Volume 7, Fall 2004, pp. 3-14.

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