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Jonathan Slaughter
Title: | CPLT Ph.D. Candidate Graduate Teaching Assistant in Francophone Studies |
Department: | Languages, Literatures & Cultures College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | jbs23@email.sc.edu |
Resources: | Curriculum Vita [pdf] |
A native of North Carolina, Jonathan Brooks Slaughter earned a BA in Comparative Literature
from UNC Chapel Hill (including coursework at Duke University) and an MA in French
Literature from Middlebury Language Schools and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
He has also completed additional graduate-level coursework at other institutions.
He has been an instructor of French at UNC Charlotte (MA Fellow 2020-21) and has worked
as a tutor, teacher, and translator in various contexts—as well as presenting at several
conferences and colloquia. He has also been involved in performance, literary, and
political communities in the United States and abroad. Major research projects have
included studies of Walter Benjamin’s writings on Proust and Surrealism, Jonathan
Littell’s 2006 Les bienveillantes, Antonin Artaud’s 1936 voyage to Mexico, and César Vallejo’s Trilce (article published online in Carátula).
Research Interests:
- Global Modernism and Postmodernism
- Aesthetics, Politics and Ontology
- Weltliteratur, Philology and Anthropology
- Poetry and Poetics
- The Historical Novel
- Contemporary Literature and Translation
- Critical Theory, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Affect and Queer Theory
- Theater and Performance Studies
- Film, Media and Cultural Studies
- Narrative Medicine and Critical Psychiatry
- Literature and Transdisciplinarity