

Lyons Hall 204C
Telephone: 617-552-8497
Email: kevin.newmark@bc.edu
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Special Co-Editor and Contributor,聽Yale French Studies聽125 & 126, 2014.
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, (Paperback reprint, 1996).
Apart茅: Conceptions and Deaths of S酶ren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes. Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988.
Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor,聽Yale French Studies聽74, 1988.
鈥淧aul de Man,鈥 in聽Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, eds. Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz, Paris: Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2025.
鈥淭aking Care: Of Kierkegaard鈥檚 Incomparable Lily Discourses,鈥 in聽Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel: Essays on the Lily Discourses, eds. Frances Maughan-Brown and Rick Anthony Furtak, Bloomsbury Press, 2025, 219-234.
鈥淟e Monde est parti: Notes sur la litt茅rature et 鈥榣a vraie vie鈥 (L茅vinas, Rimbaud, Celan, Derrida),鈥聽Parade sauvage, Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes rimbaldiennes, Num茅ro 35, Winter, 2024, 147-174..
鈥淧arting Ways: With Werner Hamacher,鈥澛Cultural Critique, No. 118, Winter, 2023, 172-216.
鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Other Passer-by,鈥 in聽Baudelaire and Other People, eds. Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlauffer, L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, 58:1, 2018, 17-31.
鈥淣ow You See It, Now You Don鈥檛: Baudelaire鈥檚聽惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅,"听Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 44:1-2, November, 2015, 1-24.
鈥淩eading as a Desperate Practice,鈥 in聽Poets as Readers, eds. Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt.聽London:聽Institute of Modern Languages Research, Fall, 2015, 227-45.
鈥淔or When the Time Comes: Poetry, Prose, Mourning,鈥澛Yale French Studies聽(co-editor of special double issue,聽Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 200-217.
鈥淩esponding To/Answering For: The Secret,鈥 by Jacques Derrida. Translation from the French. In Yale French Studies (Special Double Issue:聽Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 7-29.
"To Keep Intact the Secret: Sylviane Agacinski: Reading Kierkegaard," in聽Kierkegaard鈥檚 Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Abington, Oxon: Ashgate Press, 2012, 1-21.
"Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing," in聽The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2012, 91-102.
"A Poetics of Sharing: Political Economy in a Prose Poem by Baudelaire,"听Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, special Issue devoted to the work of Jacques Ranci猫re, Guest Editor, Joseph Tanke, 15:2, Fall, 2011, 57-81.
"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne,'"聽Comparative Literature, 63:3, Summer, 2011, 269-290.
"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's聽Disgrace," in聽Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. New York: Routledge Press, 2011, 296-306.
鈥Accomplir juste: La Lettre-D茅dicace 鈥樏 Ars猫ne Houssaye鈥,鈥澛燚epartment of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2025.
鈥淧rose Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥楿ne mort h茅ro茂que鈥,鈥澛燚epartment of French, Columbia University, October, 2024.
鈥淗is Master鈥檚 Voice: Nietzsche, Derrida, Otobiographies,鈥澛燝uest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, September, 2024.
鈥淰ertiginous Possibilities: Paul de Man鈥檚 鈥楽emiology and Rhetorique鈥,鈥澛燚epartment of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2024.
鈥淪ecrets of a Modern Death: Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥楿ne mort h茅ro茂que,鈥澛燬ociety of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University College London, April 2024.
鈥淏lack Before My Eyes: Reading, Believing, Loving in Kierkegaard鈥檚聽Fear and Trembling,鈥澛燝uest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, March, 2024.
鈥淪ans t锚te ni queue: La po猫sie en Prose chez Baudelaire,鈥澛燚artmouth in Paris Program, Reid Hall, Paris, February, 2024.
鈥淭he Fiction of a Title: Balzac鈥檚聽Adieu,鈥澛燦ineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, November, 2023.
鈥淜ierkegaard鈥檚 Poetic Exemplars,鈥 Bi-weekly International Workshop (Zoom) on Kierkegaard鈥檚 four 鈥淒iscourses on the Lilies and the Birds,鈥 September-December, 2022.
鈥淧rose-Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaire鈥檚 "Une Mort h茅ro茂que, 鈥漀ineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Georgetown University, November, 2021.
鈥Madame Bovary: le rien, l鈥檌ronie et la b锚tise," Guest Lecture, Seminar: 鈥淧our une contre-modernit茅 critique du dix-neuvi猫me si猫cle," Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2021.
鈥Je dis: une fleur!聽ellipsis鈥," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, November, 2019.
鈥I say a flower鈥擬allarm茅, Blanchot, and the deadly power of language," Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October, 2019
鈥淪hineless: Starring Baudelaire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, UC Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.
鈥淭he Personalization of Power: An Im-Personal Perspective," Venice International University, October, 2017.
鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Other Passer-by," Department of French, Yale University, April, 2017.
鈥淏audelaire and Other People,鈥 Round-Table Discussion, Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, April, 2017.
鈥淏audelaire鈥檚 Providence: 鈥楲es Sept vieillards鈥," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, October, 2016.
鈥淪pectral Bodies: Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥楲es Sept vieillards鈥," Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes, University of Kent/Reid Hall, Paris, April 2016.
鈥淧aul de Man and 鈥楾he Concept of Irony.鈥欌 Guest Lecture, Seminar: 鈥淧ostmoderne und Dekonstruktion in Deutschland?,鈥澛 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 22, 2016.
"Allegory in Tatters: 'Les Sept Vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November, 2015.
鈥淣ow You See It, Now You Don鈥檛: Baudelaire鈥檚聽惭辞诲别谤苍颈迟茅, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, October, 2015.
鈥淕etting Out of Hand: Baudelaire鈥檚聽Thyrse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of San Juan, October, 2014.
鈥淎llegorical Capital,鈥 American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March, 2014.
鈥淲hat do we mean when we say 鈥榓llegory?鈥,鈥 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, October, 2013.
鈥淚rony on Occasion: Beginning with Kierkegaard,鈥 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 19, 2013.
聽鈥淧oetry, Prose, Penury: What You See is What You Don鈥檛 Get in Baudelaire鈥檚 鈥榊eux des Pauvres,鈥 鈥 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October, 2012.
鈥淯nbelievable: Jacques Derrida and 鈥楻eligion,鈥 鈥 Conference Organizer, 乱伦小可爱, April 26-27, 2012.
鈥淭he Unspeakable Secret: Traumatic Blanks in the Testimony of Maurice Blanchot鈥 乱伦小可爱 Conference, 鈥淎fter the Unthinkable: Trauma, Nachtr盲glichkeit, and Coming to Terms," 乱伦小可爱, March, 2012.