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Born in Birmingham, Martin Crowley studied French and German at the University of Oxford, before pursuing an MA in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, and working for two years for the French publisher Larousse, as a bilingual dictionary editor. He then returned to Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in French, on the author and film-maker Marguerite Duras. After four years as Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, he came to 海角社区 in 2000. He has been a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, and serves as general Editor of the journal French Studies.
Martin welcomes applications from potential MPhil and PhD students working on modern and contemporary thought and culture in the French-speaking world.
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- Modern and contemporary cultures of the French-speaking world
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French philosophy
- Critical theory
- Ethics and fiction
- Ecocriticism
- Testimony
- Sexuality, embodiment, and representation
- Ontologies of coexistence
- Intersections of the aesthetic, the philosophical, and the political
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Martin is currently working on a book project, entitled听Opaque Strategies: Culture and Conflict in Contemporary France, which uses the figure of opacity to examine the relation between social conflict and forms of cultural production in contemporary France.
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As author:Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics beyond the Human (Columbia University Press, 2022)
L'Homme sans: Politiques de la finitude听(Lignes, 2009; afterword by Jean-Luc Nancy)
Robert Antelme: L鈥檋umanit茅 irr茅ductible (Lignes, 2004)
Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony (Legenda, 2003)
Duras, Writing and the Ethical听(Oxford University Press, 2000)
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As co-author:The New Pornographies: Explicit Sex in Recent French Fiction and Film听(Manchester University Press, 2007)
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As editor:Contact! The Art of Touch听(L'Esprit Cr茅ateur, 2007)
Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers听(Rodopi, 2000)
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As co-editor:Economies of Existence听(Diacritics, 2020; with Emily Apter)
Quels mat茅rialismes? Pour quels mondes?听(Lignes, 2016; with Michel Surya)
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