DIRECTORY INFORMATION
330 MAJOR WILLIAMS HALL
(540) 231-9487
aabiragi@vt.edu
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies
At VPI&SU since 2008
EDUCATION
Ph.D., New York University, 2008.
M.A. Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 2003.
M.Phil. French Literature with Honors, New York University, 2001
M.A. French Literature, New York University, 1997
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twentieth Century French Literature
Autobiography and the Literary Self-Portrait
The Literary Forms of Dialogue and the Fragment
Literature and its Relation to Rhetoric, Law and Politics
Literary Theory
Ontology and Ethics in Continental Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS
"The Measure of the Outside." Blanchot, the Obscure, Colloquy 10, November 2005.
WORK IN PROGRESS
PAPERS PRESENTED
"The Resistance of Poetry: Jean-Luc Nancy." Critical Aesthetics, Theory Reading Group, Cornell University, April 6-8, 2006."The Hands at Cosquer: Prehistoric Art in Jean-Luc Nancy and Georges Bataille." The Human and Its Others, American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006.
"The Voices of Christianity and The Place of Community." Jean-Luc Nancy: La déconstruction du christianisme, Dominican University College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 24-25, 2006
"Nature and Technology in the Experimental Music of Dion Workman." Out of Time: Theorizing Culture and the Political, University of Minnesota, October 20-22, 2005.
"No Longer, Not Yet: A Reading of Blanchot's L'attente l'oubli." Imperialisms: Temporal, Spatial, Formal, American Comparative Literature Association, Penn State University, March 11- 13, 2005.
"An Overabundance of Refusal: Art and Politics in Blanchot." Beauty: Looking in the Eyes of the Beholder, City University of New York, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Student Conference, November 5-6, 2004.
"The Identity of Contraries: Jean Paulhan and Sacred Language." Names and the Unnameable, 10th Annual Conference on Religion and Literature, Notre Dame University, September 16-18, 2004.
"'La Critique du Créateur': Writing as Questioning in Maurice Blanchot." Blanchot, the Obscure, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-20, 2004. "Rancière, Paulhan, and the Meaning of 'Literature' in Twentieth-Century French Literary Criticism." 10th Annual Carolina Conference for Romance Languages, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 18-20, 2004.
"Inspiration, Ancient and Modern: Plato, Blanchot." L'écrivain sur l'écriture, Brown University, Department of French Studies, Graduate Student Conference, March 12-13, 2004.
"The Figure and The Face: On Maurice Blanchot's Le dernier homme." Constructing Images of the Self, Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, Graduate Student Conference, February 20-22, 2004.
"Mallarmé and the Uprooting of Vision." Caméra ou stylo? UCLA, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Graduate Student Conference, October 3-4, 2003.