Audrey Wasser

Teaching and Research Interests

• Twentieth-century French literature
• Literary theory
• Comparative modernisms
• Comparative romanticisms
• Continental philosophy

Selected Publications

Books

• With Warren Montag, eds. Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production. (Northwestern UP, 2022)
• The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016)

Articles

• “Critical Thinking.” New Literary History 52, no. 2 (2021): 191-209.
• “Spinoza and the Claims of Meaning: ‘A Word to the Wise.’” diacritics 47.2 (2019): 106-127.
• “How Do We Recognise Problems?” Deleuze Studies Journal 11.1 (2017): 48-67.
• “Hyperbole in Proust.” Modern Language Notes 129.4 (2014): 829-54.
• “What is a Literary Problem? Proust, Beckett, Deleuze.” Frakcija: International Performing Arts Magazine 64/65 (2013): 114-121.
• “A Relentless Spinozism: Deleuze’s Encounter with Beckett.” SubStance 41.1 (2012): 124-36.
• “From Figure to Fissure: Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.” Modern Philology 109.2 (2011): 245-265.
• “Deleuze’s Expressionism.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 12.2 (2007). 49-66. 

Book Chapters

• With Warren Montag, Introduction to Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production (Northwestern UP, 2022), 1-16.
• “Why Read, Macherey?” In Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production, eds. Warren Montag and Audrey Wasser (Northwestern UP, 2022), 29-42.
• “On Several Regimes of Signs,” In A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy, eds. Jeffrey Bell, Henry Somers-Hall, James Williams (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 83-98.

Works in Progress

• On Literary Judgement (book manuscript)
• Analogy and Justification in the work of Gilbert Simondon (article)

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University (2010)

M.A. English, Cornell University (2005)

M.A. English, University of Florida (2002)

B.A. Comparative Literature, Oberlin College (1999)