Charles Talcott gave a paper entitled "Thai me up, Thai me down: the 'Bad Life' of Politicized Prostitution" at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) held at Brown University, March 19-20.

Charles Talcott joined AUP after completing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature within the interdisciplinary program Philosophy, Literature and Critical Theory at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also holds an MA in Continental Philosophy and obtained a DEA degree from Université de Paris IV - La Sorbonne where he specialized in fin-de-siècle French literature. His work in comparative literature draws extensively from critical and legal theory psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.

His current research circulates within the complex geographies of colonial and post-colonial narratives. Tracing lines of travel and displacement, his readings explore the political and cultural significance of instances of legal and linguistic difference. Specific projects include a series of articles that reexamine colonial and postcolonial narratives in light of contemporary critical legal theory. He teaches literary theory & criticism, post-colonial theory & literatures, rhetoric, communications, 19th- and 20th-century French literature, and composition.

  Recent Publications

“Joel-Peter Witkin: la photographie d’entre les morts”, Fresh Théorie II, “The Black Album”, Léo Sheer éditions, Paris, October 2006.

“Franz Kafka: Le Délire dans un Terrier”, Magazine Littéraire, July 2005.

  Recent Papers

“Jacking the Twist: Lacanian Tragedy and Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ ”, paper presented for the “Politics & Jouissance through Literature” series sponsored by the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, AUP Public Lectures in the Humanities, The American University of Paris, May 2006.

“Derrida and the Law: Post-colonialism and the Laws of the Monolingual” paper presented at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, University of Texas at Austin, USA, March 2006.

“ ‘Criminal Language’ and Stylish Resistance in Post-colonial Literatures”, paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference, Kent Law School, University of Kent-Canterbury, UK, September 2005.

“Minor Uses of Law: Post-colonial literatures and the deterritorialization of Law”, paper presented at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH), University of Texas at Austin, USA, March 2005.

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