Associate Professor Sigi Jottkandt

Associate Professor Sigi Jottkandt

Associate Professor

BA (Auckland 1988); MA (Melbourne 1992); PhD (SUNY Buffalo 2002). Dissertation committee: Henry Sussman (Director), Joan Copjec, Rodophe Gasche.

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media

Dr Sigi Jöttkandt is a senior lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW. Dr Jöttkandt’s research interests are in 19th and 20th Century British and American Literature (especially Henry James and Vladimir Nabokov); Lacanian psychoanalysis; and contemporary French philosophy.

Sole-authored Books

Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic. SUNY Press, 2005.

First Love: A Phenomenology of the One: Beckett, Turgenev, Clare, Welty, Kierkegaard. re.press, 2010.

Edited Collections

Penumbra: Counter-memories of the Present. Ed. Sigi Jottkandt and Joan Copjec. re.press 2013.

The Catastrophic Imperative: Time, Subjectivity, Memory in Contemporary Thought. Ed. Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jottkandt and Gert Buelens. Palgrave, 2009.

Articles

'Topographies of a Cinematic City', symplokē 22(1-2):181-199 Jan 2014

'The Cornered Object of Psychoanalysis: Las Meninas, Jacques Lacan, Henry James,' Continental Philosophy Review 46.2 (Aug 2013):291-309

'A kot Anna: Prva ljubezen Samuela Becketta,' Problemi 3-4 (2012): 51-75.

Splitting the Difference: Aesthetic Relations in Henry James and Leo Bersani’, The Henry James Review 32 (2011): 235-241.

‘Signifier and Letter in Kierkegaard and Lacan’ Umbr(a): a journal of the unconscious: Writing (2010).

Hate’s Rebate, Or Love’s Largesse: Back to Back on “The Bench of Desolation.”’ The Henry James E-Journal 9 (Feb. 2006).

‘The Cryogenic Signifier: the Ethics of Obsessional Hatred in Henry James’s “The Bench of Desolation,”’ Journal for Lacanian Studies 4.2 (2006): 193-213.

‘Effectively Equivalent: Walter Pater, “Sebastian van Storck,” and the Ethics of Metaphor,’ Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.2 (2005): 163-98.

‘Brothers of the Veil: On the Military Family Romance,’ Umbr(a): a journal of the unconscious: War (2004): 131-39.

‘Portrait of an Act: Aesthetics and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady,’ The Henry James Review 25.1 (2004): 67-86.

‘The Narcissism of Small Differences: On Beckett’s First Love,’ (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious 3.1-2 (2003): 117-26.

‘Language Poetry in the Academy,’ (as Sigi Curnow), Meanjin 4 (1992): 102-6.


Chapters in Books

'Sex, the Signifier and the Smallest Whole Number; in Sex and Nothing, ed. Alejandro Ruejo, (Karnac Books, forthcoming)

The Perambulatory Process: Eros, Wit and Society-testing in Henry James's "The Chaperon"', in Manya Steinkoler and Patricia Gherovici eds. Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy ed. (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)

'No Two without Three: Badiou, Lacan, Kierkegaard,' in Kierkegaard and Political Theory: Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual. Editors: Avanessian A, Wennerscheid S. 221-237. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2014

'Signifier and Letter in Kierkegaard and Lacan', in Penumbra. 265-278

Love’ in Alain Badiou, Key Concepts, ed. A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens (London: Acumen, 2010) 95-104.

Truth, Knowledge and Homeopathic Magic in The Golden Bowl’ in Blackwell’s Companion to Henry James, ed. Greg Zacharias (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009) 176-192.

Forfeits and Comparisons: Turgenev’s “First Love”’ in Lacan: the Silent Partners, ed. Slavoj Žižek (London: Verso, 2006) 270-287 (also translated into Spanish and Dutch)
 
Grants

Participant in a Partnership Grant, Canadian SSHRC, 'Immediations: Art, Media and Event' (Principal Researchers Professors Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, Concordia, Montreal, Canada).  $CAD2.9million

Previous grants held

  • 'Living Books About Life' (with Gary Hall, Coventry University and Joanna Zylinska Goldsmiths College, UK) JISC, UK
  • Literary Ethics', (with Gert Buelens and Ortwin de Graef) Flemish Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium

Contributions:

Open Humanities Press, co-Founding Director and board member, 2008-

S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, co-founding editor, 2006-

Keywords:
Henry James, the long 19thC century, European literature in translation, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, digital humanities, new forms of scholarly communications.
 

Phone
+61 2 9385 6813
Location
311J, Level 3 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2013
    2013, Penumbra, Jottkandt S; Copjec J, (ed.), Re.press, Prahran, VIC, http://re-press.org/books/penumbra/
    Books | 2012
    Devisch I; Jottkandt S; Schrijvers J, 2012, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community, Original, Continuum, London, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jean-luc-nancy-and-the-question-of-community-9781441165626/
    Books | 2010
    Jottkandt S, 2010, First Love: A Phenomenology of the One, Original, re.press, Melbourne, http://re-press.org/books/first-love-a-phenomenology-of-the-one/
    Books | 2009
    2009, The Catastrophic Imperative: Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Though, Hoens D; Jottkandt S; Buelens G, (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, http://us.macmillan.com/thecatastrophicimperative/DominiekHoens
    Books | 2009
    2009, The Catastrophic Imperative, Hoens D; Jöttkandt S; Buelens G, (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-30623-3
    Books | 2008
    De kesel M; Jottkandt S, 2008, Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII, Original, SUNY Press, Albany
    Books | 2006
    2006, The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics, Gillespie S; Jottkandt S, (ed.), re.press, Melbourne, http://re-press.org/books/the-mathematics-of-novelty-badiou%E2%80%99s-minimalist-metaphysics/
    Books | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic, Original, SUNY Press, Albany, http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4168-acting-beautifully.aspx
    Books | 2004
    Verhaeghe P; Jottkandt S, 2004, On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics, Original, Other Press, New York
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Jottkandt S, 2019, 'Signs and Symbols, or the Nabokovian Unconscious', in Rabate J-M (ed.), Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, Routledge, London, pp. 179 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003002727
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Jottkandt SA, 2018, 'A Mortimer Trap: The Passing of Death in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight', in Shepherdson C (ed.), Inheritance in Psychoanalysis, edn. Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature, SUNY Press, Albany, pp. 214 - 233, http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6484-inheritance-in-psychoanalysis.aspx
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Jottkandt SA, 2018, 'Mathematics in the Bedroom: Sex, the Signifier and the Smallest Whole Number', in Bartlett AJ; Clemens JD (ed.), Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 73 - 88, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/badiou-and-his-interlocutors-9781350026636/
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Jottkandt SA, 2017, 'Cordelia's Kiss', in Can Philosophy Love Reflections and Encounters, Rowman and Littlefield, London, https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/can_philosophy_love/3-156-f6ae9aa9-6377-4718-aecd-da2f374ff684#text-1
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'Mathematics in the bedroom: sex, the signifier and the smallest whole number', in Cerda-Rueda A (ed.), Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy, Karnac Books, London, pp. 139 - 156
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'The Perambulatory Process: Eros, Wit and Society-testing in Henry James's "The Chaperon"', in Gherovici P; Steinkoler M (ed.), Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 206 - 218
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, '《柏林向导》:纳博科夫的电影感知 ("Nabokov's Cin-aesthetic")', in Hu X (ed.), City. Culture. Representation, Sichuan University Press, Chengdu, pp. 88 - 102, http://www.scup.cn/
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Jottkandt SA, 2015, 'No Three without Two: Badiou with Lacan with Kierkegaard', in Avanessian A; Wennerscheid S (ed.), Kierkegaard and Political Theory: Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, pp. 221 - 237, http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/details.asp?eln=203601
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Jottkandt S, 2013, 'Introduction: Counter-memories of the present', in Penumbra, edn. Original, Re.press, Prahran, VIC, pp. 7 - 15, http://re-press.org/books/penumbra/
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Jottkandt S, 2013, 'Signifier and Letter in Kierkegaard and Lacan', in Penumbra, edn. Original, Re.press, Prahran, VIC, pp. 265 - 278, http://re-press.org/books/penumbra/
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Jottkandt S, 2010, 'Love', in Bartlett AJ; Clemens J (ed.), Alain Badiou, Key Concepts, edn. 8, Acumen, London, pp. 74 - 74, http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2010012015185652&dtspan=180:420&sort=sort_date/d&m=30&dc=36
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Jöttkandt S, 2010, 'Love', in Alain Badiou, Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 73 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/upo9781844654703.009
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Jottkandt S, 2009, 'Knowledge, Truth and Homeopathic Magic in The Golden Bowl', in Zacharias G (ed.), Blackwell’s Companion to Henry James, edn. Original, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 176 - 192
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Jöttkandt S, 2008, 'Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl', in A Companion to Henry James, Wiley, pp. 176 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444304978.ch10
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, 'Forfeits and Comparisons: Turgenev’s "First Love"', in Zizek S (ed.), Lacan: the Silent Partners, edn. Original, Verso, London, pp. 270 - 287
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, 'Pandverbeuren en vergelijken: Turgenjevs Eerste Liefde', in Houppermans J (ed.), Over de schreef: Psychoanalyse & literatuur, edn. Original, Dutch University Press, Amsterdam
  • Journal articles | 2021
    Jottkandt S; Davis O; Gupta M; Berzins E; Moclair-Adams M; Roditis A; Ireland A, 2021, 'Dear Behrouz', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 79, pp. 57 - 78
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jottkandt S, 2021, 'Malallegories of Reading: Three Ghosts and a Spectre in Hamlet, Jameson, and Lacan', Continental Thought and Theory, 3, pp. 366 - 381, https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/103110/24%20Jottkandt.pdf?sequence=3
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jottkandt S, 2021, 'The Reader as Fault: Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveller', mETAphor, 3, pp. 15 - 24, https://www.englishteacher.com.au/documents/item/1211
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jöttkandt S, 2021, 'Hillis Malheur, Open Case', American Book Review, 42, pp. 16 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2021.0110
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jottkandt S, 2020, 'History's Hard Sign: Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Visit to the Museum'', S : Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, pp. 119 - 134, http://lineofbeauty.org/index.php/S/article/view/113/128
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jottkandt S, 2020, 'The Art of Hysteria in The Wings of the Dove', Cycnos, 36, pp. 133 - 159
    Journal articles | 2019
    Jottkandt S, 2019, 'Spectral Psychoanalysis: the Nabokov Effect', Crisis and Critique, 6, pp. 189 - 202, https://crisiscritique.org/april2019/sigi.pdf
    Journal articles | 2019
    Jöttkandt S, 2019, 'Scenes: Open Humanities Press: an interview with Sigi Jöttkandt', American Book Review, 40, pp. 30 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2019.0119
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jottkandt SA, 2018, '"Au tombeau" with Mallarmé, Milner and Nabokov', Psychoanalysis Lacan, 3, http://psychoanalysislacan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Au-tombeau-with-Mallarme%CC%81-Milner-and-Nabokov-Jottkandt.pdf
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jottkandt SA, 2018, 'Nabokov, Cinemathomme', Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 4, pp. 80 - 110, http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/issue/view/16/showToc
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jottkandt SA, 2018, 'X-trails: Notes on another English School', Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.20.2.0133
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jöttkandt S, 2018, '“With a Lever . . . ” Beckett, Badiou, and the Logics of Sexual Difference', Philosophy Today, 62, pp. 1189 - 1206, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2019312251
    Journal articles | 2017
    Jottkandt SA, 2017, 'Territory X', a+A, 53.2, pp. 78 - 82
    Journal articles | 2017
    Jottkandt SA, 2017, 'The Power of O', Continental Thought & Theory, 1, pp. 680 - 688, http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz/
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'Black Bile/Pale Fire: Benjaminian Allegory and Nabokovian Melancholy', Crisis and Critique, 3, http://www.crisiscritique.org/index.html
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'Prime Zero of the Anthropocene', Deleuze Studies, 10, pp. 504 - 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2016.0242
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'Repetition and Inscription in Europe's Dream-Land', Filozofski Vestnik, 37, pp. 289 - 312, http://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/issue/view/441/showToc
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jottkandt SA, 2016, 'Review of Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants by Prudence Gibson', Australian Humanities Review, 59, pp. 1 - 4, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2016/04/10/review/
    Journal articles | 2014
    Jottkandt SA, 2014, 'Topographies of a cinematic city', symplokē, 22, pp. 181 - 199, http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/symploke.22.1-2.0181
    Journal articles | 2013
    Jottkandt S, 2013, 'The Cornered Object of Psychoanalysis: Las Meninas, Jacques Lacan, Henry James', Continental Philosophy Review, 46, pp. 291 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11007-013-9257-x
    Journal articles | 2012
    Jottkandt S, 2012, 'A kot Anna: prva ljubezen Samuela Becketta', Problemi, pp. 51 - 75
    Journal articles | 2011
    Jottkandt S, 2011, 'Splitting the Difference: Aesthetic Relations in Henry James and Leo Bersani', The Henry James Review, 32, pp. 235 - 241, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000297032900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Journal articles | 2010
    Jottkandt S, 2010, 'Signifier and Letter in Kierkegaard and Lacan', Umbr(a), Writing, pp. 101 - 114
    Journal articles | 2007
    , 2007, 'JOTTKANDT, SIGI. Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture), 2005. xvii + 177 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0 7914 6557 8', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 43, pp. 475 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm088
    Journal articles | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, 'Hate’s Rebate, Or Love’s Largesse: Back to Back on “The Bench of Desolation', The Henry James E-Journal, 9, http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/ejourn9.html
    Journal articles | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, 'The Cryogenic Signifier: the Ethics of Obsessional Hatred in Henry James’s “The Bench of Desolation', Journal for Lacanian Studies, 4, pp. 193 - 213, http://karnacbooks.metapress.com/content/120474/
    Journal articles | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, 'Effectively Equivalent: Walter Pater, “Sebastian van Storck,” and the Ethics of Metaphor', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 60, pp. 163 - 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2005.60.2.163
    Journal articles | 2004
    Jottkandt S, 2004, 'Brothers of the Veil: On the Military Family Romance', Umbr(a), War, pp. 131 - 139
    Journal articles | 2004
    Jottkandt S, 2004, 'Portrait of an Act: Aesthetics and Ethics in The Portrait of a Lady', Henry James Review, 25, pp. 67 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2004.0007
    Journal articles | 2004
    Jottkandt S, 2004, 'Portrait of an act: Aesthetics and ethics in The 'Portrait of a Lady' (Henry James)', HENRY JAMES REVIEW, 25, pp. 67 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2004.0007
    Journal articles | 2003
    Jottkandt S, 2003, 'The Narcissism of Small Differences: On Beckett’s First Love', (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious, 3, pp. 117 - 126
    Journal articles | 1992
    Jottkandt S, 1992, 'Language Poetry in the Academy', Meanjin, 4, pp. 102 - 106
    Journal articles |
    Cullen R; Jottkandt S, 'Dimensions of Trust in Government in the Digital Age', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1800889
  • Conference Presentations | 2022
    Jottkandt S, 2022, 'Modern Love Theory: James, Badiou and ‘The Story in It’', presented at ASCP, University of Melbourne, 28 November 2022 - 30 November 2022
    Other | 2021
    Jottkandt S (ed.), 2021, 'Lacan is Not-All': Marguerite Duras, Jan van Eyck Academie, The Netherlands, , http://lineofbeauty.org/
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Jottkandt S, 2019, 'Regressions of the Familial Signifier: Three Ghosts and a Spectre', presented at Jameson Symposium, UNSW, 06 December 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Jottkandt S, 2018, '"Cordelia's Kiss"', presented at Technology, Truth, Knowledge conference, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, 08 December 2018 - 12 December 2018
    Conference Posters | 2018
    Jottkandt S, 2018, '"Living Books for English and Creative Writing"', UNSW, presented at UNSW Learning & Teaching Forum, UNSW, 26 October 2018 - 26 October 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Jottkandt S, 2018, '"Post-interpretation and the Climate Change Unconscious: Nabokov's Lettrocalamity"', presented at Ecrits conference, Gent, Belgium, 22 September 2018 - 24 September 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Jottkandt S, 2017, '"Au tombeau with Mallame, Milner and Nabokov"', presented at Jean-Claude Milner Symposium, Deakin University, Melbourne, 04 July 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Jottkandt S, 2017, '"Beckett, Badiou and the Logic of Sexual Difference"', presented at Australasian Society for Contemporary Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 November 2017 - 01 December 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Jottkandt S, 2016, '"'By a route obscure and lonely': Repetition and Inscription in Europe's Dream-Land"', presented at Repetition/s conference, University of Ljubljiana, Slovenia, 22 September 2016 - 24 September 2016
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Jottkandt S, 2016, 'Lettro-Calamity: Nabokov's Ada or Ardor"', presented at Australasian Modernist Studies Network 3: Modernist Work", UNSW, 29 March 2016 - 31 March 2016
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Jottkandt S, 2015, '"Exile from Parnassus, or Allegories of Criticism in Nabokov's Pale Fire"', presented at Aesthetics After Finitude Conference, UNSW, 05 February 2015 - 06 February 2015
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Jottkandt S, 2015, '"Marque et Plus: On Prime Zero"', presented at Reason Plus Enjoyment conference, UNSW, 10 July 2015 - 14 July 2015
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Jottkandt S, 2014, '"Mimesis and Mimicry in Nabokov: the 'Reel' Life of Sebastian Knight"', presented at Cinematic Thinking, UNSW, 14 November 2014 - 18 November 2014
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Jottkandt S, 2014, '"The Future of Academic Publishing"', presented at UNSW Postgraduate Conference, UNSW, 20 November 2014 - 20 November 2014
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Jottkandt S, 2014, ''Maths in the Bedroom: Sex, the Signifier and the Smallest Whole Number'', presented at Badiou conference, University of Melbourne, 22 November 2014
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Jottkandt S, 2013, '"Across the memory of old signs": Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory"', presented at Soundscapes Conference, 03 July 2013 - 05 July 2013
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Jottkandt S, 2012, ''Nabokov's Berlin'', presented at Cities and their Representations Conference, Mianyang, China, 29 May 2012 - 03 June 2012
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Jottkandt S, 2012, ''Open Humanities Press' presentation', presented at Australasian Digital Humanities Conference, ANU, Canberra, 27 May 2012 - 30 March 2012
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Jottkandt S, 2011, 'Unconsciously James: What Zizek Knew', presented at MLA Convention, Los Angeles
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Jottkandt S, 2011, '‘On Approaching Orbis Tertius: Open Humanities Press'', presented at Plenary talk, Public Knowledge Project Third International Scholarly Publishing Conference,, Berlin, 26 September 2011 - 28 September 2011
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Jottkandt S, 2010, 'Seditious Libraries: Open Tools, Open Content, Open Services', presented at Bibliographic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 15 July 2010 - 15 July 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Jottkandt S, 2010, '‘Counting to One: Badiou, Lacan, Kierkegaard’', presented at The Intervention of the Single One: Kierkegaard Conference, University of Copenhagen, 28 November 2010 - 28 November 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Jottkandt S, 2009, 'The Role of Libraries in Emerging Models of Scholarly Communication', presented at LIANZA Conference, Christchurch, NZ, 13 October 2009 - 16 October 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Jottkandt S, 2008, '‘Mathematizing Love: Kierkegaard, Badiou, Lacan’', presented at Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 28 March 2008 - 30 March 2008
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Jottkandt S, 2008, '‘There is (some) One: Beckett's “First Love”', presented at Sign of the Times conference, KU Leuven, Belgium, 30 January 2008 - 01 February 2008
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    Jottkandt S, 2007, '‘From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination’', presented at Berlin 5 Open Access, Padua, Italy, 19 September 2007 - 21 September 2007
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, '‘Sex Bomb the Book: In(ter)sectal Wars of Reinscription in Tom Cohen’s Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies’', presented at Politics and Jouissance through Aesthetics, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 30 January 2006
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, '‘The first love is the true love and one only loves once’: Coun(ter)ing Love in Kierkegaard, Freud and Badiou"', presented at Counter-Movements Conference, University of Portsmouth, U.K, 24 July 2006 - 25 July 2006
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Jottkandt S, 2006, '‘Truths of Beauty, Truths of Love in Trollope’s Novels of Beautiful Men’', presented at 'Trollope and Gender Conference, University od Exeter, UK, 21 July 2006 - 22 July 2006
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, '‘Forfeits and Comparisons: Turgenev’s “First Love"', presented at Symposium on Psychoanalysis and Literature, Ghent, Belgium, 28 September 2005
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, '‘Hate’s Rebate Or Love’s Largesse: Back to Back on “The Bench of Desolation”', presented at 121st MLA Convention, Washington D.C.,, 27 December 2005 - 30 December 2005
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, '“That’s How I Make Them Do What I Like”: Contagious Loving and Maggie’s Homeopathic Magic in The Golden Bowl’', presented at Tracing Henry James: International Henry James Conference, Venice, Italy, 12 July 2005 - 15 July 2005
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    Jottkandt S, 2005, '“Words from my eyes did start”: John Clare’s ‘First Love,’', presented at Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 21 April 2005 - 23 April 2005
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Jottkandt S, 2004, 'Metaphor, Image, Action: Representing Pater’s “Sebastian van Storck”', presented at Image and Text, Image in Text: Annual conference of the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals,, Gent, Belgium, 08 July 2004 - 10 July 2004
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Jottkandt S, 2004, '‘Loving Critically: Reading for the Letter in The Aspern Papers’', presented at James and the New Formalisms Conference, University of Montreal, Canada, 19 May 2004 - 21 May 2004
    Conference Presentations | 2002
    Jottkandt S, 2002, ''Hysteria, Metaphor and the Ethics of Desire in The Wings of the Dove'', presented at International Henry James Conference, American University of Paris, 05 July 2002 - 09 July 2002
    Conference Presentations | 1994
    Jottkandt S, 1994, 'Traumatic Views: De Quincey’s Vision of Sudden Death', presented at Cornell Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, 22 September 1994 - 25 September 1994

2014 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence

I am a co-founder (with Gary Hall, David Ottina and Paul Ashton) and Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press where I chair the Editorial Oversight Group that assesses open access journals for inclusion in the international publishing collective. I am also the co-founding Editor (with Dominiek Hoens) of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique.
Former editor and co-founder of Umbra: a journal of the unconscious, published by the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture, SUNY Buffalo.
Member of the Scientific Board of the European Commission-funded project, Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

My Teaching

ARTS3047 Critical and Cutural Theory

ARTS1030 Introduction to English: Literary Genres
ARTS2035 American Literature Past and Present
ARTS3037 Comedy

I'm particularly interested in using Digital Humanities toolkits to facilitate student learning. Have a look at our students' digital projects from American Literature.