Modern Languages and Literatures
Jackson Smith
Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Research interests
20th- and 21st-century French cultural studies, including cinema (Marker, Resnais, Varda, Godard), theory (Althusser, Derrida), and literature (Quintane, Beckett); the connections among time, narrative, memory, and ideology; political crises (the Algerian War of Independence; May 1968); time travel narrative.
Publications
Book
Editor and translator of Chris Marker, Eternal Current Events: Early Writings, Inpatient Press/Mercurial Editions, 2024. Second printing distributed by MIT Press, 2025.
Articles
“Split Impersonality: Reading Blanchot in Godard’s Adieu au langage.”French Forum (forthcoming).
“Outside and Inside the Time Machines: Structure and Subjectivity in Alain Resnais’s Je t’aime, je t’aime.” New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2021, pp. 395-419.
“Into the Zone: Chris Marker, Frédéric Boyer and the Poetics of Space-Time.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2021, pp. 268-276.
“On or for Nothing/Rien: Nothing, Silence and Noise in Samuel Beckett and John Cage.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2020, pp. 168-181.
“Entre deux histoires: Unearthing Memory, Identity and Time in Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête.” Revue critique de Fixxion française contemporaine, No. 19, 2019, pp. 136-146.
Academic credentials
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton University
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