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Nathanaël

Associate Professor, Adjunct

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Adjunct Associate Professor, Low Res MFA. Books: Hatred of Translation; Pasolini's Our; La mort de ma sœur; L'heure limicole; The Middle Notebookes; N'existe; Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). Translations: Sun of Consciousness (Édouard Glissant); but it's a long way (Frédérique Guétat-Liviani); The Mausoleum of Lovers (Hervé Guibert); Murder (Danielle Collobert); The Obscene Madame D (Hilda Hilst); Poetic Intention (Édouard Glissant); Flowers of Spit (Catherine Mavrikakis). Awards: Centre National du Livre (France); PEN American Center (USA); Collège International de Traducteurs Littéraires (France); British Centre for Literary Translation (UK); Publishing Triangle Award (USA); Prix Alain-Grandbois (Qc); Chalmers Fellowship (Can). 

Publications

Hatred of Translation. Nightboat, 2019. D'un geste décidé. Fidel Anthelme X (Marseille), 2018. La mort de ma sœur. Dernier Télégramme (Limoges), 2018. Le cri du chrysanthème. Le Quartanier, 2018. Alula, de son nom de plume. L'Hexagone, 2018. Feder, a scenario. Nightboat Books, 2016. Laisse (rejet apparent). Mémoire d'encrier, 2016. L'heure limicole. Fidel Anthelme X (Marseille), 2016. The horses that come out of our heads. O'Clock Press, 2016. The Middle Notebookes. Nightboat Books, 2015 Asclepias: The Milkweeds. Nightboat Books, 2015. Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal. Nightboat Books, 2012.Carnet de somme. Le Quartanier, 2012. Carnet de deliberations. Le Quartanier, 2011.We Press Ourselves Plainly. Nightboat Books, 2010. Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). Nightboat Books, 2009. etc.

Translations

Sun of Consciousness (Soleil de la conscience) by Édouard Glissant. Nightboat, 2019. but it's a long way (mais ça fait loin) by Frédérique Guétat-Liviani. Nightboat, 2018. a body in spite (à corps défendant) by Alain Jugnon. Nightboat, 2017. A Spectacular Influence (Une spectaculaire influence) by Chantal Neveu. BookThug, 2015.The Mausoleum of Lovers (Le mausolée des amants) by Herve Guibert. Nightboat Books, 2014.Murder (Meurtre) by Danielle Collobert. Litmus Press, 2013.The Obscene Madame D (A obscena senhora D) by Hilda Hilst. With Rachel Gontijo Araujo. Nightboat Books / A Bolha Editora, 2012.Flowers of Spit (Fleurs de crachat) by Catherine Mavrikakis. BookThug, 2011.Poetic Intention (L'intention poétique) by Edouard Glissant. Nightboat Books, 2010.A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning (Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques) by Catherine Mavrikakis. Coach House Books, 2004.

Current Interests

Questions raised include translatability and mis-translation, language and the body, architecture and desire, photography in thought, ethics of encounter and the unexpected, subjective liminalities, and intimate representations of world-historical violence.

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

What are the most urgent issues in contemporary art now? This online course addresses the central themes and ideas shaping the production and distribution of art. Students will develop and manage their own blogs and participate in continuing online discussions. The final requirement will be a finished paper.

Class Number

2313

Credits

3

Description

How is writing art? How is writing art connected to writing about art? How do various theories of poetics shape writing as art? This online course addresses the craft of writing in view of urgent issues of contemporary art. Students will develop and manage their own blogs and participate in continuing online discussions. The final requirement will be a finished body of writing.

Class Number

1045

Credits

3

Description

The written thesis is a significant portion of the requirements for graduation from the Low-Residency MFA Program. Its pedagogical value is equal to the significance of the thesis exhibition during the third summer residency and should be considered in tandem with the exhibition. In this course, students work with a faculty advisor to develop a written thesis that demonstrates a strong ability to synthesize conceptual relationships across disciplines in relation to the artist?s practice. The submitted paper will combine theoretical frameworks to reconfigure concerns into a singular and powerful statement, and demonstrate the student?s ability to address work across disciplines with confidence in writing and composition.

Class Number

2339

Credits

4.5