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Distinguished Alumni Talk: Dr. Judith Roof

Distinguished Alumni Talk: Dr. Judith Roof
November 1, 2019
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Hagerty Hall 180

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Add to Calendar 2019-11-01 16:00:00 2019-11-01 17:30:00 Distinguished Alumni Talk: Dr. Judith Roof On the Beach with Marguerite and AgnèsDr. Judith Roof, Professor and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, with responses by FRIT Professors Maggie Flinn and Jennifer Willging Novels by Marguerite Duras and films by Agnes Varda situate the image of the beach as both the edge of consciousness and the mediator of media. Duras’s La Maladie de la mort, Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs, and La Pute de la Cȏte Normande, and Varda’s Les Plages d’Agnes and Visages villages all inscribe beaches as sites of encounter, observation, contemplation, terror, and the possibility of impossibility. The wide, bright, sometimes misty, nearly unending stretches of sand edged in distant aqueous indigoes host insights gleaned from gleaming loss, joy snatched from waves of ethernities (Jarry on purpose here), and a sense of the incommensurabilities of media, both with one another and with the presence they vainly try to capture. The texts of Marguerite Duras and Agnes Varda themselves edge on the sands/screens of memory and unknowing, tricking absence into presence, and presence into infinity.Judith Roof has published on texts ranging from Rabelais’ Gargantua and the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski to the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Harold Pinter, and Percival Everett as well as on topics in such fields as modern drama, film theory and criticism, theories of comedy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, narrative theory, theories of sexuality, medical humanities, and critiques of digital culture. Her most recent books have been What Gender Is, What Gender Does (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and The Comic Event (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). In 2016 she served as Chaire des Amériques at Université Rennes 2. She received a BA in French, a JD, and an MA and PhD in English from The Ohio State University and an MA in French from the University of Toronto. She is Professor and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University.Facebook Event  Hagerty Hall 180 Department of French and Italian frit@osu.edu America/New_York public

On the Beach with Marguerite and Agnès

Dr. Judith Roof, Professor and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, with responses by FRIT Professors Maggie Flinn and Jennifer Willging
 

Novels by Marguerite Duras and films by Agnes Varda situate the image of the beach as both the edge of consciousness and the mediator of media. Duras’s La Maladie de la mort, Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs, and La Pute de la Cȏte Normande, and Varda’s Les Plages d’Agnes and Visages villages all inscribe beaches as sites of encounter, observation, contemplation, terror, and the possibility of impossibility. The wide, bright, sometimes misty, nearly unending stretches of sand edged in distant aqueous indigoes host insights gleaned from gleaming loss, joy snatched from waves of ethernities (Jarry on purpose here), and a sense of the incommensurabilities of media, both with one another and with the presence they vainly try to capture. The texts of Marguerite Duras and Agnes Varda themselves edge on the sands/screens of memory and unknowing, tricking absence into presence, and presence into infinity.

Judith Roof has published on texts ranging from Rabelais’ Gargantua and the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski to the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Harold Pinter, and Percival Everett as well as on topics in such fields as modern drama, film theory and criticism, theories of comedy, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, narrative theory, theories of sexuality, medical humanities, and critiques of digital culture. Her most recent books have been What Gender Is, What Gender Does (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and The Comic Event (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). In 2016 she served as Chaire des Amériques at Université Rennes 2. She received a BA in French, a JD, and an MA and PhD in English from The Ohio State University and an MA in French from the University of Toronto. She is Professor and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University.

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