Bill Haver
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Office: Library Tower 1505
University Phone Number: (607) 777-3327
Email: whaver@earthlink.net
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Research
Interests:
Japanese history,
East Asia, contemporary theory, queer studies, AIDS.
My current work, in the departments of philosophy and comparative literature
as well as history, continues to center upon the irrecusable exigencies of
the AIDS pandemic, the status of and prospects for queer thought and culture,
and twentieth century Japanese intellectual history. I try to think about
the status, practices, and thought of those whom social science can only conceptualize
in a merely negative relation to cultural production: queers, whores, junkies,
the homeless, the Lumpenproletariat. Thus, I am also concerned with all that
a thinking bound to the concept of production can only think as bad infinities,
with the limits of the logic of social science, and with the possibilities
for thought not circumscribed by academic business as usual.
Education
Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago, 1987.
M.A. in History, University of Chicago, 1982.
B.A. in History, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1981.
Selected Publications
The Body of This Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS (Stanford
University Press, 1996)
Extremity: The Arts of Perversity and the Inventions of the Political (Stanford
University Press, forthcoming)
Evacuations of Hell: A Book of Bad Infinities (Routledge, forthcoming).
- Recent Articles
"Of Mad Men Who Practice Invention to the Brink of Intelligibility," in
Transgressive Subjects: Queer Theory in Education, ed. William F. Pinar (Mahwah,
N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, in press).
"On What is at Stake in Thinking Historically about Historical Thinking, With
Reference to Maruyama Masao's Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa
Japan," forthcoming from Duke University Press in a volume edited by Naoki
Sakai.
"Extremity," Parallax (forthcoming).
"Translation, Interruption," Differences (forthcoming).
"Where is Philosophy? Or, What Can Thinking Do?" Gendai shiso (forthcoming).
"Queer Research: How to Practice Invention to the Brink of Intelligibility,"
in Sue Golding, ed., The Eight Technologies of Otherness (London: Routledge,
1997), 277-92.
A Japanese translation by Nagahara Yutaka appears under the title "Kuia Risaachi,"
Gendai shiso 25, no. 5 (May 1997): 71-89.
"The Jouissance of Patient Zero," Phoebe 7, nos. 1-2 (Fall/Spring 1995): 75-85.
"A World of Corpses: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to AIDS," Positions 2, no.
1 (Spring 1994): 1-14.
Awards
Member (NEH Fellow), School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, NJ, 1996-1997.
SUNY Chancellor's and University Awards for Excellence in Teaching, 1993.
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 1986-1987.
Dissertation Research Award, Far Eastern Studies Center, University of Chicago,
1985-1986.
Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1984-1985.
SSRC Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1984-1985.
Special Humanities Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1981-1984.
Affiliations
Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
NJ, 1996-97 (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow)
Campus Projects
Harpur College Educational Programs and Policies Committee, 2002-present.
Asian and Asian American Studies Program (Director, 1995-1999).
Innovational Projects Board, 1991-1995 (Chair, 1992-1995).
Harpur College Council, 1991-1993.
Faculty, Program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture.
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1991-1993.
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