Professional Development Assignment (Fall 2010)
Kas Saghafi, Department of Philosophy
During Fall 2010 I submitted two pieces of writing for publication: I completed and
submitted an essay called “Incurable Haunting: Saluting Michel Deguy,” for a special issue of the
Oxford Literary Review on the topic of “Deconstruction and Poetry. The essay appeared in Fall 2011,
vol. 33.2 (2011): 245-264. I completed and submitted an entry entitled “Maurice Blanchot (19072003),” for the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, eds. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2012), forthcoming. A paper that I had presented at the second Derrida
Today conference, which took place in London in 2010, led to the publication of an article entitled
“The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration,” in Parallax 58 (January-March 2011): 33-41.
I presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy (SPEP) in Montreal, Canada, November 6, 2010, the first of which, “’A
Certain Spirit of A Certain Marx’: Blanchot’s Revolutionary Return in Specters of Marx,” was chosen
for and published in the selected proceedings from the conference in Philosophy Today, Supplement,
Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 55: 5 (2011): 183-91. The second
paper, “Thomas : Lazarus : : Blanchot : Nancy,” was presented at the Société Américaine de
Philosophie de Langue Française’s (SAPLF) in a panel entitled “Maurice Blanchot: The
Philosophers’ Philosopher,” on November 6, 2010. It was subsequently revised and submitted for
publication. The article “Thomas the Marvelous: Resurrection and Living-Death in Blanchot and
Nancy,” will be published this fall in Mosaic 45.3 (September 2012): 1-16.
My co-translation with Pleshette DeArmitt of an article by Jacques Derrida, entitled
“Aletheia,” was published in a special issue of Oxford Literary Review, “The Truth in Photography”
32.2 (2010), 169-88.
During this period of time, I also submitted a paper proposal for the North American Levinas
Society’s annual meeting at Texas A & M University, which got accepted. However, I did not end up
going to the conference.