Education:

Ph.D. with distinction in Political Science, "What's Left? The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Right," Yale University, May 1985

M. Phil. with distinction in Political Science, Yale University, May 1978

M.A. in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1975

B.A., cum laude, in French, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1974

Professional Experience:

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, August 1990-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 1985-July 1991

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,University of Cincinnati, 1983-1985

Acting Instructor, Contemporary French Political Theory: An Introduction to Structuralism, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Spring 1983

Teaching Assistant to Thomas Pangle, History of Political Philosophy, Yale University, Winter 1979, Fall 1976

Teaching Assistant to Umberto Eco, Theory of Semiotics, Yale University, Fall 1977

Research Assistant, Project on American Democratic Institutions, Institute for Social Policy Studies, Yale University, Summer 1975

Instructor, Women's History, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974-1975

Books:

What's Left? The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Right, University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

This is Not a President: Baudrillard, Lacan and the American Political Imaginary, (forthcoming; manuscript available upon request)

Publications:

"Television: French Poststructuralism in a Global Frame" (submitted for publication)

"That's the Way the Mercedes Benz: Di, Wound Culture and Fatal Fetishism," theory and event, 1997, Vol. 1:4, (article discussed in the Times Literary Supplement, April 10, 1998: 16; paper read at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Lancaster, England, symposium on Lady Diana.)

"Indiscreet Jewels: Can We Talk About James Miller's Passion of Michel Foucault," Modern Fiction Studies, Fall 1995, Vol. 42, No. 3.

"The Four Discourses and The Four Volumes," Journal of Politics, November 1994, Vol. 56, No. 4: 1119-1132

"Publish and Perish: The Postwar Trials of French Intellectuals," Journal of European Studies, Spring 1993, Vol. 28, No. 89-90: 71-99

"Oliver North and the Lying Nose" in Frederick Dolan and Thomas Dumm, etc., Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. (Article discussed in The New Republic, March 1993.)

"The Anxiety of Affluence: Baudrillard and Science Fiction of the Reagan Era," in William Stearns and William Chaloupka, ed., Baudrillard in the Mountains: Modern Commucations and the Disappearance of Art and Politics, (St. Martin's Press, 1992)

Introduction to Pieces et ses regles du jeu politique, (Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1991), co-authored with Murray Edelman

"This is Not a President: Baudrillard, Bush and Enchanted Simulation" in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, ed., The Hysterical Male (St. Martin's Press, 1991)

"The Mirror of Reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America," Political Theory, November 1989

"Disfiguring Apter: Comparative Politics as Literary Theory" in Aristide Zollberg, ed., Fetschrift for David Apter (unpublished festschrift)

"Hate Boat: Greenpeace, National Identity and Nuclear Criticism," in James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro, ed., International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern and Poststructural Readings of World Politics, Lexington Books, Lexington, Massachusetts 1989

"Food for Thought: Metonymy in the late Foucault," Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 12, no. 2-3, 1987; reprinted in J. Bernauer and D. Rasmussen, ed., The Final Foucault, MIT Press, Cambridge 1988 (Japanese translation 1991)

Review of Etienne Balibar's On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in The American Political Science Review, June 1979

Invited Papers:

"Honey, I Shrunk the President; Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Clinton Presidency," Center for Humanistic Studies, Purdue University, April 21, 1997

"The Normalien and the Pathographic: Foucault, Althusser and the Bicentennial Imaginary," University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, California, March 13, 1996 (Emily Apter and Richard Terdiman, organizers)

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Humanitarianism But Were Afraid to Ask Zizek," 1996 Annual Meeting of the British International Studies Association, Durham England, December 16-18, 1996

"Le Normalien et le Pathologique," The Educated Imagination/La Formation de l'intelligence, Meeting in honor of the Bicentennial of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, June 5-6, 1994

"Male Trouble and Presidential Subjectivity," Conference on "Issues in Cultural Theory: Gender, Pedagogy and Psychoanalysis," The University of Texas at Arlington, February 22, 1992

"Bush, the Man who Sununu Too Much," Colloquium on Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University, March 1992, Janet Lauer and James Berlin, organizers.

"Open Letters/Covert Operations: Rhetorical Readings of Iran Contra," Shambaugh Symposium "Rhetorics as Politics: Discourses Civic and Academic," Iowa City, Iowa, April 25-28, 1991

"Bush Disfigured II: Baudrillard, Lacan and Bush," Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, December 6-7, 1990

"Baudrillard, Simulation and American Presidential Politics," 1988 NEH Summer Seminar on Symbolic Politics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Murray Edelman, Director

"The Mirror of Reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America," Department of Political Science, DePaul University, Chicago, October 1989

"Disfiguring Apter: Comparative Politics as Literary Theory," festschrift for David Apter, 1989

"Les Origines Intellectuelles du Fascisme Français," Round Table on "Authoritarianism and Fascism in Latin Countries," Centro di Studi Scienzi Politica, Florence, Italy, November 25-27, 1982.

Fields of Research and Graduate Teaching:

Contemporary Continental Theory: poststructuralism, practice theory (de Certeau, Bourdieu), deconstruction, semiotics, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, French feminism, theories of sexuality/gender, western Marxism

Political Language: political rhetoric, literary theory, literature and politics, institutional rhetorics

American Studies: American political and popular culture, American presidential politics, race (trans)gender and American identity

Comparative Politics of Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy): comparative fascisms, intellectuals in politics

Nineteenth and early Twentieth century French and German political thought

Languages:

French - (near native fluency)

German - Italian - (reading, some speaking)

Hebrew, Latin - (reading)