Dr. James Martell
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Office 209 in the Alphin Humanities Building
870.307.7217 |james.martell@lyon.edu

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Licenciatura (B.A.) Universidad Iberoamericana

M.A. University of Kansas

Ph.D. University of Notre Dame

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He is the author of Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother’s Son (Routledge 2019), and of Beckett and Derrida (Cambridge UP, forthcoming), and the editor of the upcoming Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury). He co-edited Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (Roman Books) with Arka Chattopadhyay in 2013, with Fernanda Negrete, in 2018, a special volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, titled ‘Beckett Beyond Words,’ and in 2021 Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures (Palgrave) with Erik Larsen. He is currently working on a book on surfaces of thought in European literature and philosophy.

Besides all the French language and literary courses, he runs the Film minor and teaches courses on English and World Literature.

Here is a discussion of his first book in the context of Sanglap's series, Conversations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ZfQuPvpOs

Advanced courses taught in French:

FRN 382:La littérature française de la deuxième moitié du 20e siècle (1950-2000)
FRN 345:19th French Studies

Advanced courses taught in English:

ENG 361:Creative Writing Workshop in Fiction

In Spring 2018 he taught a crosslistedseminar with ART, RPH, and ENGtitled:

FRN 382:Plastic and Visual Reflections: Literature, Philosophy and Art in France in the 20thcentury

Some of Dr. Martell's most recent publications:

Plastic Theory/Studies, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 31 (1), 174-192. (2023)

Hamlet's Rest II: Derrida's and Deleuze's and Guattari's Tallies, CR: The New Centennial Review 23 (1), 131-156. (2023)

Malabouian Plasticity Beyond Surfaces, Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal 54 (1), 93-112. (2021)

Archephonai: The Dangers of Music, University of Canterbury (2021)

Derrida's Beckettian Spectre, OXÍMORA REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE ÉTICA Y POLÍTICA. NÚM. 17. JUL-DIC 2020. ISSN 2014-7708. PP. 99-118 doi: 10.1344/oxi.2020.i17.

“Who inscribes Whom?”: Blood, Ink, and Deconstruction, Estudios del Discurso, 2019

Entre Watt et Derrida: les cercles du discours, in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui (Volume 30, Issue 2), 2018

Idiomatic Images: Derrida and the Forgotten Japanese FilmIrezumi,Oxford Literary Review, (Volume 39, Issue 2), 2017

Béla Tarr and the Affective Stance Before the World, Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. Vol 2. No. 3 (2016)http://sanglap-journal.in/

The Animal Mirrors: the Human/Animal Divide in Derrida and Deleuze,Mosaic, a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 48.3. (2015)

Derrida on Beckett, or the painful Freudian mark,Mosaic, a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 44.4. (2011): 95-108.