Cesare Casarino

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Literature, Duke University, , 1994 -
B.A: Critical Theory, Brandeis University, , 1988 -
I.B.: , United World College of South East Asia, , 1984 -

Specialties

literary and visual cultures of HIV/AIDS
modern and contemporary continental philosophy
nineteenth- and twentieth-century comparative literatures
literary theory
european cinemas
theories of gender and sexuality

Publications

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Publications

Gomorrahs of the Deep; or, Melville, Foucault, and the Question of Heterotopia: Casarino, Cesare, Arizona Quarterly, 51(4), 1-25, 1995.
In Praise of the Common. Antonio Negri, University of Minnesota Press, Casarino, Cesare, 2008.
Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis. University of Minnesota Press, Casarino, Cesare, 2002.
Marxism Beyond Marxism. Rebecca Karl, Saree Makdisi, Routledge, Casarino, Cesare, 1996.
Marx before Spinoza: University of Minnesota Press, Casarino, Cesare, Spinoza Now, 179-234, 2011.
The Southern Answer: Pasolini, Universalism, Decolonization: Casarino, Cesare, Critical Inquiry, 36 (4), 673-696, 2010.
Universalism of the Common: Casarino, Cesare, Diacritics, 39 (4), 163-177, 2009.
Sexual Difference Beyond Life and Death; or, Feminism and the Biopolitical Turn: Casarino, Cesare, Angelaki, 17 (2), 2012.
Three Theses on the Life-Image (Deleuze, Cinema, Biopolitics) : Stanford University Press, Casarino, Cesare, Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, 156-168, 2011.
Can the Subaltern Confess? Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the Deployment of Sexuality: Stanford University Press, Casarino, Cesare, The Rhetoric of Sincerity, 121-143, 2009.
Oedipus Exploded: Pasolini and the Myth of Modernization: Casarino, Cesare, October, 59, 27-47, 1992.
The Simulacrum of AIDS: Casarino, Cesare, Parallax, 11 (35), 60-72, 2005.
Pasolini in the Desert: Casarino, Cesare, Angelaki, 9 (1), 97-102, 2004.

Awards

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Awards

Single-Semester Research Leave, University of Minnesota, 2006

Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2003

Sabbatical Supplement, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2001

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2000

Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2000

McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2000

Residency Fellowship, University of California Humanties Research Institute, 2009

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2008

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

CL/CSDS 8910 - AIDS, Philosophy, and the Question of Form

CL/CSDS 8910 - Ecce Queer: Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Futures of Queer Theory

CL/CSDS 8910 - Late Philosophy: The Late Writings of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault

CL/CSDS 8910 - Spinoza and The Twentieth Century

CSCL 5910 - Neorealism and the Cinema

CL/CSDS 8910 - Karl Marx

CL/CSDs 8910 - Theories of the (Cinematic) Image

CL/CSDS 8910 - Lacan, Deleuze

CL/CSDS - The 1850s: Melville, Whitman, Marx, Baudelaire