

Lyons Hall 204C
Telephone: 617-552-8497
Email: kevin.newmark@bc.edu
Nineteenth and twentieth-century prose and poetry; literary theory, and the relations between literature and philosophy.
Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Special Co-Editor and Contributor, Yale French Studies 125 & 126, 2014.
Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers, by Paul de Man, ed. with E.S. Burt and Andrzej Warminski. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, (Paperback reprint, 1996).
Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of SÞren Kierkegaard, by Sylviane Agacinski, translation from the French with Critical Introduction and Notes. Tallahassee: Florida State Press, 1988.
Phantom Proxies: Symbolism and the Rhetoric of History, Special Editor and Contributor, Yale French Studies 74, 1988.
âPaul de Man,â in Dictionnaire Maurice Blanchot, eds. Michael Holland and Hannes Opelz, Paris: Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2025.
âTaking Care: Of Kierkegaardâs Incomparable Lily Discourses,â in Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel: Essays on the Lily Discourses, eds. Frances Maughan-Brown and Rick Anthony Furtak, Bloomsbury Press, 2025, 219-234.
âLe Monde est parti: Notes sur la littĂ©rature et âla vraie vieâ (LĂ©vinas, Rimbaud, Celan, Derrida),â Parade sauvage, Revue dâĂ©tudes rimbaldiennes, NumĂ©ro 35, Winter, 2024, 147-174..
âParting Ways: With Werner Hamacher,â Cultural Critique, No. 118, Winter, 2023, 172-216.
âBaudelaireâs Other Passer-by,â in Baudelaire and Other People, eds. Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlauffer, LâEsprit CrĂ©ateur, 58:1, 2018, 17-31.
âNow You See It, Now You Donât: Baudelaireâs ČŃŽÇ»ć±đ°ùČÔŸ±łÙĂ©,"ÌęNineteenth-Century French Studies, 44:1-2, November, 2015, 1-24.
âReading as a Desperate Practice,â in Poets as Readers, eds. Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt. London: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Fall, 2015, 227-45.
âFor When the Time Comes: Poetry, Prose, Mourning,â Yale French Studies (co-editor of special double issue, Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 200-217.
âResponding To/Answering For: The Secret,â by Jacques Derrida. Translation from the French. In Yale French Studies (Special Double Issue:Â Time for Baudelaire), 125 & 126, 2014, 7-29.
"To Keep Intact the Secret: Sylviane Agacinski: Reading Kierkegaard," in Kierkegaardâs Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy, ed. Jon Stewart. Abington, Oxon: Ashgate Press, 2012, 1-21.
"Inscribing the Political: Paul de Man and the Wild Art of Letter Writing," in The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty and the Theotropic, ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2012, 91-102.
"A Poetics of Sharing: Political Economy in a Prose Poem by Baudelaire,"ÌęSymposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, special Issue devoted to the work of Jacques RanciĂšre, Guest Editor, Joseph Tanke, 15:2, Fall, 2011, 57-81.
"Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of 'Le Cygne,'"Â Comparative Literature, 63:3, Summer, 2011, 269-290.
"Dark Freedom: On J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace," in Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. New York: Routledge Press, 2011, 296-306.
âAccomplir juste: La Lettre-DĂ©dicace âĂ ArsĂšne Houssayeâ,â Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2025.
âProse Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaireâs âUne mort hĂ©roĂŻqueâ,â Department of French, Columbia University, October, 2024.
âHis Masterâs Voice: Nietzsche, Derrida, Otobiographies,â Guest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, September, 2024.
âVertiginous Possibilities: Paul de Manâs âSemiology and Rhetoriqueâ,â Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2024.
âSecrets of a Modern Death: Baudelaireâs âUne mort hĂ©roĂŻque,â Society of Dix-NeuviĂ©mistes, University College London, April 2024.
âBlack Before My Eyes: Reading, Believing, Loving in Kierkegaardâs Fear and Trembling,â Guest Lecture, Philosophy Seminar, College of the Holy Cross, March, 2024.
âSans tĂȘte ni queue: La poĂšsie en Prose chez Baudelaire,â Dartmouth in Paris Program, Reid Hall, Paris, February, 2024.
âThe Fiction of a Title: Balzacâs Adieu,â Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, November, 2023.
âKierkegaardâs Poetic Exemplars,â Bi-weekly International Workshop (Zoom) on Kierkegaardâs four âDiscourses on the Lilies and the Birds,â September-December, 2022.
âProse-Poetry and the Right to a Modern Death: Baudelaireâs "Une Mort hĂ©roĂŻque, âNineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Georgetown University, November, 2021.
âMadame Bovary: le rien, lâironie et la bĂȘtise," Guest Lecture, Seminar: âPour une contre-modernitĂ© critique du dix-neuviĂšme siĂšcle," Department of French and Italian, Dartmouth College, April, 2021.
âJe dis: une fleur! ellipsisâŠ," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, November, 2019.
âI say a flowerâMallarmĂ©, Blanchot, and the deadly power of language," Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, College of the Holy Cross, October, 2019
âShineless: Starring Baudelaire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, UC Riverside and Scripps College, October, 2018.
âThe Personalization of Power: An Im-Personal Perspective," Venice International University, October, 2017.
âBaudelaireâs Other Passer-by," Department of French, Yale University, April, 2017.
âBaudelaire and Other People,â Round-Table Discussion, Society of Dix-NeuviĂ©mistes, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, April, 2017.
âBaudelaireâs Providence: âLes Sept vieillardsâ," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Brown University, October, 2016.
âSpectral Bodies: Baudelaireâs âLes Sept vieillardsâ," Society of Dix-NeuviĂ©mistes, University of Kent/Reid Hall, Paris, April 2016.
âPaul de Man and âThe Concept of Irony.ââ Guest Lecture, Seminar: âPostmoderne und Dekonstruktion in Deutschland?,â Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, March 22, 2016.
"Allegory in Tatters: 'Les Sept Vieillards," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Princeton University, November, 2015.
âNow You See It, Now You Donât: Baudelaireâs ČŃŽÇ»ć±đ°ùČÔŸ±łÙĂ©, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, October, 2015.
âGetting Out of Hand: Baudelaireâs Thyrse," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of San Juan, October, 2014.
âAllegorical Capital,â American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March, 2014.
âWhat do we mean when we say âallegory?â,â Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Richmond, October, 2013.
âIrony on Occasion: Beginning with Kierkegaard,â Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 19, 2013.
 âPoetry, Prose, Penury: What You See is What You Donât Get in Baudelaireâs âYeux des Pauvres,â â Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, North Carolina State University, October, 2012.
âUnbelievable: Jacques Derrida and âReligion,â â Conference Organizer, Boston College, April 26-27, 2012.
âThe Unspeakable Secret: Traumatic Blanks in the Testimony of Maurice Blanchotâ Boston College Conference, âAfter the Unthinkable: Trauma, NachtrĂ€glichkeit, and Coming to Terms," Boston College, March, 2012.