University of Minnesota
Cultural Studies & Comparaive Literature
cscl@umn.edu
612-624-8099


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Cesare Casarino

612-625-4571
Cultural Studies& Comp. Lit 206 Nich Hall

Specialties

  • cinema
  • history of Western philosophy
  • literary and visual cultures of AIDS
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • post-WWII European cinema

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Literature, Duke University.

Publications

  • The Sublimes of the Closet; or, Joseph Conrad's Secret Sharing. Casarino, Cesare, boundary 2, vol. 24, #2, pp. 199-243, 1997.
  • Some Invectives and Premonitions Toward a Critique of the New World Order. Casarino, Cesare, Saree Makdisi, Society for African Philosophy in North America, vol III, no. 2-3, pp. 1-17, 1991.
  • City of Love: Antonio Veneziani's Metropolitan Poetics. Casarino, Cesare, 1996.
  • Gomorrahs of the Deep; or Meville, Foucault, and the Question of Heterotopia. Casarino, Cesare, 1995.
  • Presentazione. Casarino, Cesare, L'Usignolo, Montella, Italy: Dragonetti, pp. i-vi, 1994.

Awards

  • Residency Fellowship, University of California Humanties Research Institute, 2009
  • Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2008
  • Single-Semester Research Leave, University of Minnesota, 2006
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2003
  • Sabbatical Supplement, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2001
  • Grant-in-Aid of Research, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2000
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2000
  • McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2000

Courses Taught

  • CL/CSDS 5910 - The Community of Unbelonging
  • CL/CSDS 8910 - AIDS, Philosophy, and the Question of Form
  • CL/CSDS 8910 - Ecce Queer: Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Futures of Queer Theory
  • CL/CSDS 8910 - Late Philosophy: The Late Writings of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault
  • CL/CSDS 8910 - Spinoza and The Twentieth Century
  • CSCL 3456 - Sexualities: From Perversity to Diversity
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