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Department of English

Roland Végső
Assistant Professor

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

  • SUNY at Buffalo, PhD (2007)
  • Kossuth University (Debrecen, Hungary), University Diploma (1999)

Professional Areas of Specialty

  • Critical and Literary Theory; Psychoanalysis; Contemporary Political Theory;
  • Twentieth Century Literatures; Modernism; Cold War Studies;
  • Translation and Translation Studies;

Selected Publications

  • "Deconstruction and Experience: The Politics of the Undeconstructible." In A Leftist Ontology: Beyond Relativism and Identity Politics. Ed. Carsten Strathausen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
  • "Freud and the Prophetic." Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 11.3 (December 2006): 265-81.
  • "Faulkner in the Fifties: The Making of the Faulkner Canon." Arizona Quarterly 63.2 (Summer 2007): 81-107.
  • "The Mother Tongues of Modernity: Modernism, Transnationalism, Translation." Forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature.

Selected Translations

  • Werner Hamacher. "The Relation." CR: The New Centennial Review 8.3 (2008): 29-69. (From German to English)
  • Eva Geulen. "The Function of Ambivalence in Agamben’s Re-Ontologization of Politics." In A Leftist Ontology. Ed. Carsten Strathausen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. (From German to English)
  • Rodolphe Gasché, "Dé-lire: Bataille and the Delirium of Reading." theory@buffalo 12 (2008): 8-33. (From German to English)
  • Monique David-Ménard, "‘Stationary Process and Infinite Speed’: Psychoanalysis with Psychosis." Umbr(a) 2006: 41-51. (From French to English)
  • Christian Jambet, "The Stranger and Theophany." Umbr(a) 2005: 27-41. (From French to English)
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Roland Végső
Assistant Professor
221 Andrews Hall
(402) 472-1845 (office)
rvegso2@unl.edu