Scott Durham

Scott Durham (Ph.D. Yale, 1992) is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature. His main interests are in 20th-century literature, film, and theory, with particular emphasis on Foucault and Deleuze, as well as the Marxist critical tradition. He is the author of Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (Stanford University Press) and the editor of a Yale French Studies issue on Jean Genet. He is currently completing a book with the working title The Archive and the Monad: Deleuze and the Resistance to Postmodernism, which explores the possibilities and limits of Deleuze's thought for the interpretation and contestation of postmodern culture. Among the works discussed in his current project are films by Marker, Godard, Ruiz, and Amelio and novels by Proust, Djebar and DeLillo. Professor Durham's other publications include articles in such journals as October, Paragraph, Sites, Yale French Studies, L'Esprit Créateur, and Science-Fiction Studies. In addition to critical writing on literature and film, he is also currently engaged in a collaborative project with filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller, The Promise of Happiness.

Professor Durham has lectured at such venues as Cornell University (where he was the keynote speaker at the annual Intralogos Conference in both 1999 and 2003), the University of California-Berkeley, Georgetown University, Miami University, the School of the Art Institute, The Gene Siskel Film Center and Le Collège International de Philosophie. He has served as Jean Gimbel Lane Professor at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities (where he conducted a Humanities graduate seminar on "Cultures and Technologies of Time") and a recipient of the ASG Faculty Honor Roll Award.

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