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AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE AVITAL RONELL University Professor of the Humanities Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature Affiliated Professor of French and Performance Studies Chair of Comparative Literature New York University Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy European Graduate School, Switzerland New York University 37 Washington Square West Department of German New York, NY 10011 19 University Place, 3rd Fl. Tel. (212) 539-0899 New York, NY 10003 Fax (212) 979-6819 Email: [email protected] Education Princeton University, Ph.D. (Germanic Languages and Literatures), 1979 Freie Universität Berlin, 1976-77 Middlebury College, B.A. (German, French, Philosophy), 1970-74 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 1972-73 Manhattan School of Music, 1960-70 Teaching New York University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature (1995-present), English Department (2001-present) European Graduate School, Saas Fee (Switzerland), Advanced Seminar, Jacques Derrida Chair Professor of Philosophy and Media, 1999-present Princeton University, Humanities Council Residential Fellow, Department of English: graduate and faculty seminars, 2006; IHUM Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Fall 2014 Baker-Nord Visiting Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Fall 2006 Université de Paris VIII, Études Féminines, Professor of Philosophy and Literature, 2004 AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE University of California at Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature, 1984-1995 Josai University, Tokyo, 1992 University at Siegen, Graduiertenkolleg 1988 University of California at Riverside, Modern Language Department, 1983-84 Université de Paris VIII, English Department (Hélène Cixous, Chair), 1982-83 University of Virginia, German Department, 1978-81 Princeton University, Teaching Assistant, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 1977-78 Grants and Awards Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres République Française, 2013 Fellow at the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin (chair: Prof. Sigrid Weigel), 2010 Commissioned by the City of Berlin to write and perform in theater piece and was awarded fellowship, Berlin, 2010 Distinguished Foreign Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009 Fellow for Distinguished Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2008 and 2010 University Professor, New York University since 2007 NYU Humanities Council Grant (together with Judith Alpert and Shireen Patell) for Research in Trauma and Violence: Traumatic Effects, 2005-2006 NYU Research Challenge Fund Award, 2005-06 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies, Honorable Mention for Stupidity, Modern Language Association, 2002 International Best Book Design Award, 2002 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Humanities Deans’ Discretionary Fund for Translation of Book into French, 2001 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Humanities Deans’ Discretionary Fund for Book Publication, 2001 Society of Fellows, New York University, 1999-present University of California President's Fellowship, 1995-96 Research Fellow Award, Summer 1993 University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, Spring 1992 American Cultures Fellowship, Summer 1991 American Design Award for The Telephone Book, 1989, 1990 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship (Hermeneutics Institute, Berlin), 1981-83 Fulbright-Hayes Award, 1976-77 - 2 - AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE Publications 1. Books 2015 (imminently forthcoming) Korean translation of Stupidity, with new preface. (forthcoming) Spanish translation of Crack Wars, with new preface. Losers [Loser Sons]. Paris: Editions Bayard. 2012 Loser Sons: Politics and Authority. University of Illinois Press. 2011 Fighting Theory. Avital Ronell in Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle. Trans. Catherine Porter. University of Illinois Press. Addict, Fixions, et Narcotextes [Crack Wars]. Oversaw translation for French Edition. Paris: Editions Bayard. Test Drive. La passion de l’épreuve. [The Test Drive]. Oversaw translation for French Edition. Paris: Edition Stock. What Was I Thinking? Conversations with Avital Ronell. Trans. Catherine Porter and adapted by Avital Ronell. 2008 Pulsión de Prueba. La filosofía puesta a examen [The Test Drive]. Oversaw translation for Spanish edition. Buenos Aires: IZ Ensayos. The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Ed. Diane Davis, with four new essays, University of Illinois Press, Dec. 2007 (with Eduardo Kac) Life Extreme: An Illustrated Guide to the New Life, Paris: Dis Voir, Nov. (with Eduardo Kac) Life Extreme: Guide Illustré de Nouvelles formes de Vie, Paris: éditions Dis Voir, Nov. Tipshut [Stupidity]. Oversaw translation for Hebrew edition, Tel Aviv: Resling, May. 2006 (with Anne Dufourmantelle) American Philo: Entretiens avec Avital Ronell. Paris: Editions Stock, Sept. Telephone Book. Technologie, schizophrénie et langue électrique. Oversaw translation and wrote new preface for French edition. Paris: Bayard Centurion, Collections Curiosités. Dictations: On Haunted Writing. Reprint with a new foreword. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2005 The Test Drive (on Nietzsche, technology, and the experimental disposition). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Dostoevski. Manuscript submitted to and accepted for future publication by Editions Bayard, Paris. Stupidity. Trans. Céline Surprenant. Oversaw translation for French edition. Paris: Editions Stock, Collection L’autre pensée. Dummheit. Oversaw translation for German edition. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose Verlag. 2001 Stupidity. (On modalities of cognitive failure). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. - 3 - AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE 1994 Finitude’s Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium. (On war technology, medical ethics, philosophy and literature). Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1992 Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania. Urbana and Chicago: University of Nebraska Press, January 1992. German translation: Drogenkriege: Literatur, Abhängigkeit, Manie, Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer Verlag, 1994. French translation coming in 2008 Bourgois. 1989 The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. German translation: Das Telefonbuch. Technik, Schizophrenie, Elektrische Rede. Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose Verlag, 2001. 1986 Dictations: On Haunted Writing, Indiana University Press, 1986. Paperback with new introduction, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993; German translation: Der Goethe-Effekt, München: Fink Verlag, 1994. 2. Books Edited 2015 (forthcoming) Jacques Derrida’s Last Lecture at the European Graduate School, New York: Atropos. 2006 (with Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman) Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker, London: Verso. 1986 (with Eduardo Cadava) Jacques Derrida, Mémoires for Paul de Man, trans. Jonathan Culler, Eduardo Cadava, and Cecile Lindsay, New York: Columbia University Press. 1985 (Supervision) Charles Malamoud, “Revenge and Sacrifice in Brahmanic India.” Trans. Peter T. Connor, Festschrift for Madeleine Biardeau, 1985. 3. Works in progress: Ach! The History of a Complaint A Philosophical Survival Kit, Paris: Editions Stock. Torture and Authority A Question of Politesse: The Abyss in Human Relations (The intersection of politics, aesthetics and ethics: on the figure of the refugee in Kant, Celan, Arendt, Lévinas). 4. Interviews with and Articles about (partial list): 2013 “Loser Sons.” France Culture (radio), February 28. 2012 “Dealing with Trauma and Disaster.” Euronews, February 24. 2011 “Je l’entends.” France Culture (radio), July 31. 2010 “Entretien (realisé par Éric Aeschimann).” La nouvelle revue française, 593: 189. Gallimard Press, Paris. - 4 - AVITAL RONELL - CURRICULUM VITAE “Terminer/commencer” and “Comme je l’aime.” France Culture (radio), January 1 and September 5. 2009 “Drogues et philosophie,” “Table-ronde Essais/autour d’Avital Ronell,” and “Les matins.” France Culture (radio), May 8, May 12, and June 17. Weil, Nicolas. “Avital Ronell: Je veux faire mal aux textes.” Le monde, June 4. Scott DeShong: “The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.” symplokë, vol. 16, nos. 1-2 (2008): pp. 382-383. Aude Lancellin: “Deux amazones à Paris.” (Interview with AR and Judith Butler). Le Nouvel Observateur, June 11, 2009. Link: http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20090611/13126/deux-amazones-a-paris Nicolas Weill: “Avital Ronell: “Je veux faire mal aux textes’.” Le Monde des Livres, May 6, 2009. Eric Aeschimann: “Américaine philo. Portrait Avital Ronell.” Libération, May 25, 2009. Link: http://www.liberation.fr/livres/0101569283-americaine-philo Maxime Rovere: “Avital Ronell, une époque d'épreuve, de test et d'expérimentation.” Magazine Littéraire, no. 487, June 2009, p. 36. Link: http://www.magazine- litteraire.com/content/critiques/article.html?id=13687 Maggiori Robert: “Le fix Caché d’Emma.” Libération Aliocha Wald Lasowski: “S’inventer des personnalités.” Magazine Littéraire, no. 483, January 2, pp. 68-69. 2008 “Derrida en séminaire.” France Culture (radio), December 12. “Telephone” (theatre play), by Ariana Reines, based on The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell; directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. The Foundry Theatrs, New York City. 2007 Israeli Television, Jerusalem, interview on the Publication of Stupidity in Hebrew, May 2007. With three corresponding articles in Israeli magazines/Newspapers: “Time Out” and “Ha’aretz” Arthur J. Sabatini: “Testing