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William
V. Spanos
(Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin, 1964)
Distinguished Professor,
English Department
tel.: (607) 777-2743
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail:
wspanos@binghamton.edu
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State University of New York • Binghamton University, Binghamton,
NY 13902-6000 |
Areas of Interest
- Postmodernism
- Contemporary Theory
- New Americanist Studies
- Globalism
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Current Projects
- Infernal Journey: A Memoir of World War II
- A book entitled "Metaphysics Shadow: Thinking and the
Political in the Age of the World Picture"
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Books and Recent Articles
- American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter
of the Vietnam War (Albany, NY: SUNY Press,
2007)
- Herman Melville and the American Calling: The After Moby-Dock,
1851-1857 (Albany: SUNY Press,
2008)
- The Legacy of Edward Said: A Dialogue (Champagne, Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2008)
- The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism (University of Minnesota
Press)
- The Errant Art of Moby Dick: the Canon, the Cold War, and the
Struggle for American Studies (Duke University Press)
- Heidegger and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Politics of
Destruction (University of Minnesota Press)
- America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 2000)
- "Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis: The
American Appropriation of the Question," in Boundary 2
- "American Studies in the Age of the World Picture"
in The Future of American Studies, Duke University Press
- "Althusser's 'Problematic' in the Context of the Vietnam
War: Towards a Spectral Politics," in Rethinking Marxism
- "Heidegger's Parmenides: Greek Modernity and the
Classical Legacy" in Modern Greek Studies
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Recent Courses Taught
- Heidegger and Arendt
- Culture and Colonization
- The Idea of the Classic
- America in the 60's
- Postmodern Theory
- Marx, Heidegger, Derrida: The Question of the Imperial Representing
Vietnam
- The Globalization of American Culture
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