I’m working on a book to be called, How the Jews Got Religion in which I will argue that the very notion of “religion” is of Christian origins to serve particular discursive needs of Christianity, resisted by Jews–for whom there is not native word that means Judaism until the 18th century. I will be teaching the material for this new book in my Rhetoric of Religion course in Spring 2012, which should be understood as the Rhetoric of “Religion.”
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Founding Director . She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984 on the French Reception of Hegel. She is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (Routledge, 1993), The Psychic Life of...
On the Medieval side, Clover has published two books and a number of articles on the history and culture of Early Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon England, northern Continent). Her interests here range from the origins of narrative prose, the borders between pagan/Christian and oral/literate, and understandings of gender. She is currently researching the role of procedural law and of specific trials in the rise of the prose sagas of early Iceland.
On the Film side, she is working on a book on the relation between the Anglo-American trial and Anglo-American narrative...
AB (MCL) (English Language and Literature) Harvard College MA (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Harvard University PhD (Celtic Languages and Literatures), Harvard University
Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and music composer. Her works include: eight films • Forgetting Vietnam (90 mins, 2015) • Night Passage (98mins narrative, 2004) • The Fourth Dimension (87 min Digital Video, 2001), • A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995), an experimental narrative, • Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991), a film on culture, art and politics in China, • Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989), a film on identity and culture through the struggle of Vietnamese...
Kaja Silverman is Emerita Professor of Rhetoric and Film & Media, and the author of eight books: James Coleman; World Spectators; Speaking About Godard; The Threshold of the Visual World; Male Subjectivity at the Margins; The Acoustic Mirror; The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema; The Subject of Semiotics; and Flesh of My Flesh. She retired from UC Berkeley in June 2010. She is currently the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Chair of Contemporary Art at the History of Art Department, University of...
