Paul Stasi
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Modernism, 20th-century Anglophone writing, Marxist, aesthetic, and postcolonial theory, silent filmHumanities 369
442-4056
pstasi@albany.edu
Paul Stasi researches and teaches in the areas of Modernism, 20th-century Anglophone writing, Marxist, aesthetic, and postcolonial theory, and silent film. He is currently at work on a book-length project about modernism and empire, entitled Imperial Structures of Feeling: Modernism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Historical Sense. This project reads modernism's allusive formal structures against the background of imperial culture, arguing that modernist form marks an investment in history that counteracts the immediacy of the commodity form. The cosmopolitan nature of modernism's culture is best understood as an attempt to rescue tradition from the proprietary structures of identity and nationalism which undergird imperialist expansion.
Publications“Joycean Constellations: ‘Eveline’ and the Critique of Naturalist Totality.” Forthcoming in the James Joyce Quarterly.
Recent Lectures & Conference Papers“Living Without a Plot: Claude McKay’s Banjo and Transnational Modernity.” Canadian American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2007.
“‘A sane balance of values’ The Cantos as World Literature.” Invited Lecture, University of South Carolina, Columbia, February 2007.
“The Permeable Border Between Us and Them: Cinema, 9/11 and Radical Politics.” Marxist Reading Group, 8th Annual Conference, Gainesville, FL, March 2006.
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