Brett Levinson
Professor,
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Library Tower 1510
University Phone Number: (607) 777-4962
Email: blevins@binghamton.edu
Affiliated Faculty: Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Program (LACAS)
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Research Interests
Latin American
literature and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, continental philosophy,
pyschoanalysis, literary theory and Third cinema.
Selected Publications
Market and Thought: Meditations on the Political and Biopolitical
(Fordham UP, 2004).
The Ends of Literature: Post-transition and Neoliberalism in the Wake of
the Boom (Stanford UP, 2002).
Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama
Lima 's 'American Expression. (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1996)
Approximately twenty articles on authors and subjects such as Cortazar, Piglia,
Menchu, Las Casas, Carpentier, Ruiz de Alarcon, Paz, Vallejo, Lezama Lima,
postcolonial studies, Latin Americanism, the Boom, feminist theory, neoliberalism,
psychoanalysis and queer theory.Education:Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Spanish. Sept, 1991.
Dissertation: "Secondary Modems: Mimesis, History and Revolution in Lezama
Lima's 'American Expression." Minor in Comparative Literature.M.A. Bryn Mawr
College. Spanish. May, 1985.B.A. Oberlin College. Spanish and English. May,
1981.
Awards and Grants
Title F Grant, State University of New York. Fall, 1999;
Rockefeller Fellow, Santiago, Chile, 1997, "The Limits of Measure: Justice
and Transition in Chile"; Rockefeller Fellow, University of Virginia, 1998,
"Neoliberalism and Trauma"; National Endowment for the Humanities grant,
1992, "Colonial Art in Mexico and the Southwestern United States."
Current Projects
Completing two books. The first, entitled The State/Market
Duopoly Between Two Nihilisms: Meditations on Things Formerly Known as Politics
and Thought, is an analysis of the relation of contemporary political and
philosophical thought, on the one hand, and the global transition from state
to market, on the other. The second, Literary Politics in Latin America:
the Poetics and Practice of Globalization, represents a reconsideration of
Latin America culture and politics via a study of the relation of literature
to other forms of production.
Foreign Languages
Spanish, fluent. French, fluent. Portuguese, reading and speaking knowledge.
Memberships
Modern Language Association.
Society for Phenomenology and Literature.
Midwest Modern Language Association (secretary of comparative literature
program)
The James Joyce Foundation.
The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
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Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History,
and Revolution
in Lezama Lima's
"American
Expression" (1996)
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