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Nicole Rizzuto
Assistant Professor
PhD, Columbia University, 2006
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Twentieth Century British and Anglophone Literature
- Postcolonial and Gender Studies
- Critical Theory
Selected Publications
“Reading Sarah Kofman’s Testimony to les Années Noires in Rue Ordener, Rue Labat,” with an introduction by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (January 2006).
“Toward an Ethics of Witnessing: Testimony and the Allegory of Trauma in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier.” Under review at Discourse.
“Realism, Form, Politics: Reading Connections in Caribbean Migration Narratives.” Under review at Comparative Literature.
Recent Conference Presentations
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Panel co-chair, “Double-Bind: Literary Reading and the Postcolonial,” and presenter of paper, “Politics/Poetics: Making Links in Lamming and Rhys.” Postcolonialism and the Hit of the Real conference, New York University. New York, New York. March 2008.
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Seminar co-leader, “In/hospitable Modernities,” and presenter of paper, “Hostile Cosmopolitics? ‘Hostipitality in Two Conrad Texts.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Long Beach, California, November 2007.
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Faculty panel chair, “Terror, Torture, and Atrocity: (Un)Making Reality in American Cinema and Media.” NYU Cinema and Media Graduate Student Conference. New York, New York, February 2007.
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“Bearing Witness Through Departures and Returns: Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier.” Paper presented for “Testimonial Modernism” panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2006.
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“The Rhetoric of Witnessing in ‘Benito Cereno’: Herman Melville’s Challenge to Imperialist Reading Practices.” Paper presented for “Inter-American Studies: Interventions and/or Retrenchments in Dominant Discourse?” seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association conference. University Park, Pennsylvania, March 2005.
Current Research & Projects
Book manuscript: Spectral Witnesses: Testimony, Historical Memory, and the Modern Novel. The book examines novels, novellas, trial reports, and personal testimonies by modernist and postcolonial writers from the U.S., Britain, and Africa. It argues that through their literary orchestrations of testimonial acts—trials, confessions, depositions, and oaths—these writings critically negotiate worldwide crises of colonial insurgency and resistance, and in doing so, break the temporal, spatial, and cultural limits of modernism traditionally defined.
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