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1 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Name Address Tom Eyers Duquesne University Department of Philosophy 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA, Degrees 2005 University of Cambridge 1 st Class BA Honours in Social Anthropology (Placed second in Tripos) 2006 University of Cambridge Mphil. in Social Anthropological Research 2011 Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London Ph.D. in Philosophy Successfully defended with no required corrections Thesis Title: Jacques Lacan and the Concept of the Real Supervisor: Professor Peter Hallward External examiner: Professor Philippe Van Haute, Radboud University Nijmegen Employment Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Department of Philosophy Duquesne University Research Associate and Lecturer Department of English Washington University in St. Louis Post-Doctoral Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Program Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Washington University in St. Louis

2 2 Books Lacan and the Concept of the Real Palgrave Macmillan Tom Eyers does the impossible: he provides a systematic outline of the concept of the Real in all its manifestations, from its genesis and transformations to its clinical and philosophical implications Slavoj Žižek Eyers creatively advances a number of contemporary discussions and debates, masterfully revealing the philosophical power and richness Lacan offers his readers Adrian Johnston Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology and Marxism in Post-War France Bloomsbury Academic 2013; paperback In its range of material and in its interpretive daring, Eyers s book is one of an ambition rarely seen today. Paul Earlie, Queen s College Oxford, French Studies Eyers has restored, with remarkable clarity and comprehensiveness, the crucial details of a bigger picture one whose continuing reconstruction will further accentuate its political resonances, past and present David Winters, Radical Philosophy Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present Northwestern University Press 2017; forthcoming. In Defense of the Minimal Manuscript in progress; solicited by University of Nebraska Press. Book Contributions Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis in Reading Lacan s Écrits, ed. S. Vanheule, (London, Routledge, 2016) (forthcoming) Question for debate in B. Latour, G. Harman and P. Erdélyi, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, (London, Zero Books, 2011)

3 3 Publications in Journals Articles: Determined and Unmoved : Materialist Wordsworth Forthcoming in boundary 2, Language Poetry and the Textual Negotiation of History Forthcoming in Textual Practice, The Revenge of Form Forthcoming in boundary 2, Badiou Among the Poets boundary 2, 43.2, Wallace Stevens, Alain Badiou, and the Paradoxical Productivity of Literary Form Textual Practice, 2015, available online: Print version forthcoming in 2016 The Perils of the Digital Humanities: New Positivisms and the Fate of Literary Theory Postmodern Culture, 23.2, Objections to Form: Poetry, Psychoanalysis and the Turn to Objects Umbr(a): Journal of the Unconscious, The Object, ed. Joan Copjec, Chris Sylvester and Macy Todd, French Philosophy of Science, Structuralist Epistemology and the Problem of the Subject Southern Journal of Philosophy, 52:2, Paul de Man s Philosophical Poetics Philosophy Compass, 9:1, Psychoanalytic Structuralism and the Cahiers pour l Analyse Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18:1, Spring Bachelard, Lacan, and the Impurity of Scientific Formalization Paragraph: Journal of Modern Critical Theory 35:3, (Shortlisted for the Malcolm Bowie Prize in French Studies, 2012).

4 4 The Signifier-in-Relation, the Signifier-in-Isolation, and the Concept of the Real in Lacan Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 14, Lacanian Materialism and the Question of the Real Cosmos and History 7:1, /342 Rethinking the Dialectic: Hegel with Lacan, Derrida with Foucault, and the Question of Dialectical Ethics Studies in Social and Political Thought 14, Book Reviews: Review of J. Clemens, Psychoanalysis Is An Anti-Philosophy, Radical Philosophy 186, July-August Review of T. Tho and G. Bianco, Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Review of David Webb Foucault s Epistemology: Science and Transformation in Radical Philosophy 180, July/August Review essay on Slavoj Žižek Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Review essay on Simon Skempton Alienation After Derrida Historical Materialism 19.3, Review essay on Scott Wilson The Politics of Joy and Gregg Lampert Who s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? Deleuze Studies 6.4, Review of Alenka Zupančič The Odd One In: On Comedy Radical Philosophy 155, Review of Matt Ffytche The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche Radical Philosophy 175, September/Octobr 2012.

5 5 Review of Bruno Bosteels Badiou and Politics Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Review of Alberto Toscano Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Review of Michael Lewis Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing Derrida Today 4.2, Review of Lorenzo Chiesa Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan European Journal of Psychoanalysis 28, Review of Alain Badiou Theory of the Subject Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Review of Ian Parker Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Contributions to AHRC-funded project Concept and Form: the Cahiers pour l Analyse and Contemporary French Thought at CRMEP, Kingston University. Paid Writing Assignments Review essay on Benjamin Noys The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory Mute Magazine Invited Conference Contributions Organized three-day seminar Marxism and Formalism Today, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Harvard University, April Theory of the Novel at 100

6 6 Special Session of the Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, January Revolution, Financialization and Experimental Poetry, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, November Materiality and the Institution, The Right to Philosophy Workshop, Princeton University, September Baudelaire and Historical Failure, department of English Theory Colloquium, Princeton University, April Organized three-day seminar Form As/Against History, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Seattle, March hours of intensive seminars on Literature and Formalism at Duquesne University, Summer Other keynotes: Bruno Bosteels and Paul Livingston. Response to Dorothea Olkowski, book session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Conference, New Orleans, October 2014 Paul de Man, the Profits and Losses of Poetic Form, and the Stakes of a Speculative Formalism American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New York City, Poetry at the Limits of Sense: Badiou and Wallace Stevens Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Oregon, October Respondent at 'Form and Formalism' Workshop, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 29-30th November Psychoanalytic Structuralism and the Cahiers pour l Analyse Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Research Seminar Series, Kingston University London, 27 th January Bachelard, Lacan and the Impurity of Formalization, Department of Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, November 15 th 2011.

7 7 Deleuze, Canguilhem, and the Problem of Life Inter-Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory at Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 4th Moderator, The Politics of Logic Panel Discussion Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Conference, Rochester NY, 1 st November Speculative Formalism: Psychoanalysis, Science, Literature Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, December Conference Presentations Formalization, Not Form!: Reuniting Form and Critique, MLA national convention, Vancouver, January Jacques Lacan and French Philosophy of Science Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, 7 th January Deleuze, Canguilhem and the Problem of Life Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, September Psychoanalysis and the (Neo)liberal Arts Mellon Symposium Interstices: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, September Psychosis and Language Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshops Conference On Madness, St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, October The Underground Current of the Idea: Althusser, Lacan, Badiou at 21 st Century Idealism International Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, April Lacanian Materialism and the Question of the Real at 'Real Objects or Material Subjects? A Conference on Continental Metaphysics' International Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, March 27-28th, Materializing the Symptom: Lacan and the 'Sinthome' at 'The Symptom in Theory' International Symposium, Cardiff University, 8th September 2009.

8 8 Awards and Scholarships Severino A. Russo Faculty Research Fellowship Award, Duquesne University, Society for the Humanities Fellowship, Cornell University, (declined) Shortlisted for the Malcolm Bowie Prize for French Studies, University of Oxford, Fully funded PhD Scholarship with teaching and administrative responsibilities, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University (awarded ). Senior and Research Scholar, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (elected 2005). Domestic Research Scholar, University of Cambridge (elected 2005). Exhibition Examination Prize (for Part 2a examinations in Social Anthropology undertook as part of the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos), Trinity College, University of Cambridge Winner of the 2005 University of Cambridge Social Anthropology Society Essay Prize for Actor-Network Theory and the Claims of Modernity. Teaching Experience Undergraduate Tutorials in Continental philosophy and political theory, Dept. Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Lecturer on 'Knowledge and Reality History of European Philosophy Core Module, Undergraduate BA Hons. in Philosophy, Middlesex University, Seminar Leader on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Undergraduate BA in Philosophy, Middlesex University, Seminar Leader, Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, MA Program in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University

9 9 Lecturer and Course Author, Theory and Methods, undergraduate major in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Washington University in St Louis, (Authors studied include Freud, Althusser, Derrida, Badiou) Lecturer and Course Author, The Intellectual History of Psychoanalysis 400 Level Course, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis, Spring Semester 2012 Lecturer and Course Author, Marxism after Marx: Philosophy, Literature and Radicalism in the 20 th Century 400 Level Course, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis, Spring Semester 2013 Co-lecturer and co-author, Psychoanalysis and Literature, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, Spring Semester 2013 Contributions to teaching of Senior Honors Workshop and Introduction to Graduate Studies, Department of English, Washington University in St. Louis, Fall Contemporary Philosophy 300 Level Course, Duquesne University, Fall Semesters 2013 and 2014 Subjectivity and Science, Graduate Seminar, Duquesne University, Spring 2014 The Philosophical Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, Graduate Seminar, Duquesne University, Fall 2014 Literary and Philosophical Modernisms, Graduate Seminar, Duquesne University, Spring 2015 Louis Althusser, Graduate Seminar, Duquesne University, Fall 2015 Romanticism in Philosophy and Literature, Graduate Seminar, Duquesne University, Spring 2016 Academic Service Member of the Editorial Collective of boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Reader for Diacritics journal Reader for Theory, Culture and Society journal

10 10 Reader for Socialist Studies journal Reader for Subjectivity journal Reader for Northwestern University Press Reader for Verso Books Administrator, Department List, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, Conference organization (including conferences on Badiou, Transdisciplinarity and the Cahiers pour l Analyse, new currents in literary theory, Foucault), Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex and Kingston Universities, Co-organizer of Mellon symposium Interstices: A Decade of Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, September Co-organizer of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workshops annual conference On Madness, St. Louis, October Research Interests and Expertise Languages Contact Details References: Recent and Contemporary French philosophy; Form and formalism in philosophy, science, psychoanalysis and literature; Continental philosophy of science; literary theory; Marxisms after Marx; comparative romanticisms and modernisms; minimalism and its critics. French (Excellent written and spoken); German (Competent written and spoken); Latin (Competent written). Telephone (office): Telephone (home) eyerst@duq.edu Professor Peter Hallward Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Kingston University

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