Recent & Selected
Essays and reviews:
"'Life without Parole': Metaphor and Discursive Commitment,"
Style 36 (2003): 446-465.
Abstract: Figurative thought and language require a capacity for un-making perceptions as well as making them, and a capacity for irony as well as metaphor, a real-time awareness that the figures of perception are contingent and approximate, both true and not true at the same time. This view differs significantly from theories of metaphor as embodied schema (Lakoff and Johnson) and conceptual integration (Turner and Fauconnier). Such bottom-up theories fail to account for the fundamental role played, in metaphor production and comprehension, by a prior, top-down judgment on the part of a situated, ethically intuitive subject of discourse.
"Disabilities, Bodies, Voices." In Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Edited by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland Thomson and Sharon Snyder. New York: MLA Press, 2002.
Review of Keith Devlin, Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (1997). Minds and Machines 10 (2000): 409-416.
"Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship." In The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Literature and Law. Edited by Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee. Duke UP, 1994: 57-100.
"Hamlet and the Technology of the Mind's Eye." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology. Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 1991: 87-101. Available online: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00019686/00001/96x?vo=2.
"Difference and Silence: John Milton and the Question of Gender." In The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Edited by Shirley Garner, Claire Kahane, and Madelon Sprengnether. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985: 142-68.
Conference papers:
“‘A Billion Here, a Billion There’: High-speed Financial Networks and Global Market Meltdown.” Conference: “Idioms of the Post-Global,” March 19-21, 2009. at SUNY/Buffalo.. Available online: A Billion Here.
"Virilio's Speed-up, Winnicott's Hesitation." Annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Chicago, IL. November, 2005.
"Virilio's Speed-up, Winnicott's Hesitation." 22nd International Conference on Literature & Psychology. Cordoba, Spain. June/July, 2005.
Available online:
Virilio_Winnicott (Acrobat "pdf" file).
"Drawing the Line, Dividing the Plane: Islamic Space and the Geometries of Ornament." Annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Durham, NC. October, 2004.
Available online:
Drawing the Line (Acrobat "pdf" file).
"Lacan's Gaze and Islam's Textile Aesthetic." 21st International Conference on Literature & Psychology. Arles, France. July, 2004.
"Islamic Space and the Nomadic Geometries of Ornament." Third European Conference, Society for Literature and Science. Paris, France. June, 2004.
"Virtual Ethics." Annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS). Pasadena, CA. October, 2002.
"Cognition and Poetry: Metaphor as Conceptual Dis/Integration." Symposium on Major Intellectual Debates now Ongoing in Cognitive Fields. Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo. November 1, 2000.
"Prisoner of Consciousness: Solitaire, Music, and Number." Annual conference of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS). Atlanta, October, 2000.
"Classical Quantitative Meters and the Transformation of Formal Rhythmic Space in Elizabethan Poetry." North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Buffalo, NY. April, 2000.
"'Life Without Parole': Metaphor, Judgment, and Commitment," Conference of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS). Norman, OK. October, 1999.
"Being and Belonging: Oliver Sacks's Existential Biology," Conference of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS). Gainesville, FL. October, 1998.
"Mindbody: Sacks, Edelman and a New Biology of Consciousness," Conference of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS). Pittsburgh. October, 1997.
"Being There, at The End." Catalogue entry for photographic installation, The End, by Victor Burgin, SUNY at Buffalo Art Gallery, 1995.
"Lacan's Gaze, Keller's Touch, and the Language of the Unconscious." Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Toronto, December 1993.
"'You Knew Me Before': Language Acquisition and Narratives of the Deaf." In lecture series, Deaf-Blind: Lectures on Language, Culture and Perception. University of Utah. April 30, 1993.
"Blindness / Deafness / Narrative." University of Utah Humanities Center. March 11, 1993.
"Helen Keller and the Technology of the Visual," Seminar sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY at Buffalo. December, 1991.
"Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship," Conference: Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, Case Western Reserve U, Cleveland. April, 1991.
"Martin Guerre and the Return of the Text," Conference: "The Subject of History / The History of the Subject: An Inter-disciplinary Conference on The Return of Martin Guerre, SUNY at Buffalo. February, 1991.
"Hamlet and the Technology of the Mind's Eye; or, A Mousetrap for the Gaze," Seventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology. Urbino, Italy. July, 1990.
"Primal Scene / Blind Text." Session on Freud, Biography, and Autobiography, Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Washington, DC, December, 1989.
"Transformations of the Visual: Sidney to Jonson," North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention. Boston, 1987.
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