Gabriela S. Basterra

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Harvard 1997, M.A. Harvard 1990; B.A. Zaragoza (Spain) 1987.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Literature and philosophy; modern and contemporary literature in Spanish; tragedy; poetry; ethical philosophy; psychoanalysis; ethics and politics.

Select Publications:

Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
“I Love to Hate my Life or the Allure of Guilt: A Response to Simon Critchley.”  Theory & Event 7.2 (2004).
“The Grammar of Fate in Lorca’s Bodas de sangre.” Journal of Romance Studies 3.2 (2003).
“The Other of Reason in Quotation Marks: Nietzsche on Tragedy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism (forthcoming).
“Choreography of Fate: Lorca’s Reconfigurations of the Tragic.”  In John Burt Foster and Wayne J. Froman, eds, Re-Staging Cultural Theory: Politics, Tragedy, History.  London: Continuum (forthcoming).
“Against Tragic Sublime Sense” (under review).
“Self-Denying Creativity” (under review).
“A Politics Beyond Commitment: Levinas’s Heteronomous Autonomy” (under review).
“From Respect to Exposure: Levinas and Badiou” (under review).

Works in Progress:
Victims, Interlocutors, and Political Exposure;  Ethical and Poetic Address: A Debt of Voice in Salinas and Levinas;  One.