Department of English, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Tel.: +45 8942 6533 (office); +45 6167 2766 (mobile)
Fax: +45 8942 6540
E-mail: dominic.rainsford@hum.au.dk
Homepage: http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/engdr/home.html
1 January 1965
UK
Professor of Literatures in English, Department of
English, University of Aarhus, since 1 November 2008
Head of Institute, Institute of Language,
Literature and Culture, University of Aarhus, 2004–2006
Head of Department, Department of English,
University of Aarhus, 2001–04
Associate Professor (lektor), Department of English, University of Aarhus, 1999–2008
Temporary Associate Professor (lektor vikar),
Department of English, University of Aarhus, 1998–99
Visiting Associate Professor (gćstelektor),
Department of English, University of Aarhus, 1998
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1995–97
Lecturer, Department of English, Loyola University of Chicago, 1994–95
Senior Lecturer, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, 1992–93
Temporary Lecturer in Modern Literature and Drama, Humanities Programme, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 1991–92
Tutor, Department of English, University College
London, 1990–92
PhD, English Literature, University College London, 1994
BA, English Language and Literature, University
College London, 1987
Carlsberg Fellowship (Carlsberg Fund), Churchill
College, Cambridge, 2006–07
Scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory,
Cornell University, 2002
Conference grants (from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the British Academy and the British Council), 1996
Instructorship, George Soros Foundation, held at the University of Warsaw, 1992–93
Full scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, 1991
Studentship, British Academy, for postgraduate study at University College London, 1987–90
John Oliver Hobbes Memorial Scholarship in Modern English Literature, University College London, 1986
Ker Memorial Prize, University College London,
1985
University of Aarhus, Spring 2009: Literature and War, Literatures in English 1800–1950; lectures. Autumn 2008: William Blake; Literatures in English (sidefag); lectures. Spring 2008: Two Great Victorian Novels; lectures. Autumn 2007: Literature and War; Forked Animals: The Human and the Inhuman from Shakespeare to Now; Literatures in English (sidefag); lectures on literatures in English and critical theory. Autumn 2005, Spring 2005, Autumn 2004, Spring 2004 and Autumn 2003: numerous lectures on literatures in English and critical theory. Spring 2003: Literature and Ethics; Literatures in English; Critical Theory. Autumn 2002: British Literary History; Critical Theory. Spring 2002: British Literary History; Critical Theory; Dickens. Autumn 2001: British Literary History. Spring 2001: British Literary History; Victorian Literature; William Blake. Autumn 2000: British Literary History; Victorian Literature; Dickens. Spring 2000: British Literary History; Post-1945 Poetry; Recent British Fiction. Autumn 1999: Study Skills; Post-1945 Poetry; Recent British Fiction. Spring 1999: Victorianism; Beckett and Joyce. Autumn 1998: British Literary History; Dickens; Wilde, Decadence and the 1890s. Spring 1998: The Nature of Victorianism; William Blake; Tony Harrison.
University of Massachusetts Oxford Summer Seminar, Trinity College Oxford, July 1999: Introduction to Dickens (3-week course).
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1996–97: The Canons of English Literature (Chaucer to Yeats); 19th-century British Literature (Romantic and Victorian); The Canon and Its Discontents (later 20th-century, especially Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Caribbean literature in English).
Loyola University, 1994–95: Introduction to Fiction (18th-century to contemporary); Writing II (advanced composition).
University of Warsaw, 1992–93: Narrative Strategies in the 18th-century Novel; British Romantic Poetry; 19th- and 20th-century British Literature and Social History; Close Reading of Ulysses; 20th-century British and Anglo-Irish Poetry; Post-W.W.II British and Anglo-Irish Poetry; Close Reading of Moby-Dick; Post-W.W.II American Poetry.
Imperial College, 1991–92: Modern Literature and Drama (Wilde to Winterson).
University College London, 1990–92:
literature in English from all periods (approximately 300 hour-long one-to-one
tutorials).
(i) Books (as author)
Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Authorship, Ethics and the Reader: Blake,
Dickens, Joyce. Basingstoke: Macmillan;
New York: St. Martin’s, 1997; reprinted, 1999.
(ii) Books (as editor and author of introduction)
The Ethics in Literature. Co-edited with Andrew Hadfield and Tim Woods. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.
Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility. Co-edited with Tim Woods. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.
General Editor, The Dolphin (Publications
of the Department of English, University of Aarhus), 1998–2001.
(iii) Articles in Journals
‘The Bright Light of Science and the Dim
Truth of Art.’ European Journal of
English Studies., 11.3 (2007): 285–300.
‘Tarkovsky and Levinas: Cuts, Mirrors, Triangulations’. Film–Philosophy,
11.2 (2007): 122–43.
‘Prelazeći engleski kanal 1880-ih i 1990-ih: dvije
futurističke fikcije transnacionalne nesigurnosti’ (Croatian trans. of ‘Crossing the English
Channel in the 1880s and 1990s: Two Futuristic Fictions of Transnational
Insecurity’). Glasje, 13/14 (2003): 185–200.
‘Numbering Pain: Testimony,
Quantification, and Need.’ Discourse,
25.1–2 (2003): 19–35.
‘Solitary Walkers, Encountering Blocks: Epistemology and Ethics in Romanticism and Land Art.’ European Journal of English Studies, 7.2 (2003): 177–92.
‘The English Channel: Romantic Insularities.’
European English Messenger, 12.1
(2003): 21–24.
‘Literary Language and the Scientific Description of Consciousness.’ Ukrainian Society for the Study of English Messenger, 1 (2000): 72–79.
‘Difficult Writing and Obstructive Form in Blake and Derrida.’ Imprimatur, 2.1 (1996): 118–24.
‘Pity in Joyce: The Function of the Blind Stripling.’ English Language Notes, 34.1 (1996): 47–55.
‘Flatness and Ethical Responsibility in Little Dorrit.’ Victorian Newsletter, 88 (1995): 11–17.
‘Higher Education in Poland.’ Contemporary
European History, 2.3 (1993): 295–97.
(iv) Articles in Books
‘Dickens in Denmark.’ Forthcoming in
The Reception of Charles Dickens in
Europe. Ed. Michael Hollington. London and New
York: Continuum.
‘Literary Language and the Scientific
Description of Consciousness.’ In
Search of a Language for the Mind–Brain. The Dolphin, 33. Ed. Anjum Saleemi and others. Ĺrhus:
Aarhus University Press, 2005.
‘The Comedy of Sadness in Dombey and Son.’ Dickens: The Craft of Fiction and the Challenges of Reading. Ed. Rossana Bonadei and others. Milan: Unicopli, 2000.
‘Crossing the Channel with Dickens.’ Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds. Ed. Anny Sadrin. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. 3–13.
‘Echoes in the Void: Freedom, Frailty and
Death.’ Lectures d’une œuvre: David Copperfield de Charles Dickens.
Ed. Sara Thornton. Paris: Éditions du Temps, 1996.
41–47.
(v) Articles in Reference Books
‘Bleak House’, ‘The Hound of
the Baskervilles’, ‘Tom Jones’, ‘Ulysses’. Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul E. Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
(vi) Reviews
Review of Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens. English, 58 (2009): 98-102.
Review of Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: an Introduction. Dickens Quarterly,
23.3 (2006): 121–25.
Reviews of Mapping
the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, ed.
Davis and Womack; The Moral Life: A
Reader in Ethics and Literature, ed. Pojman; Ethics: Classical Western Texts in Feminist
and Multicultural Perspectives, ed. Sterba. European Journal of English Studies, 7.3
(2003): 353–60.
Review of John Bowen, Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit. The Dickensian, 97 (2001): 242–45.
Review of Charles Dickens, ‘Gone Astray’ and Other Papers from Household Words, The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism, ed. Michael Slater, Vol. 3. Dickens Quarterly, 17.4 (2000): 246–49.
Reviews of Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction; Robert Eaglestone, Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas; Emmanuel Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings, ed. Peperzak, Critchley and Bernasconi; Adriaan Peperzak, Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; Stanley Fish, Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change. European Journal of English Studies, 4.1 (2000): 89–94.
Reviews of Anny Sadrin, Dickens, ou le roman-théâtre; Rossana Bonadei, Paesaggio con figure: intorno all’Inghilterra di Charles Dickens. The Dickensian, 95 (1999): 156–61.
Review of Norman Vance, The Victorians and
Ancient Rome. Victorian Review, 23.2 (1997): 294–96.
(vii) Electronic Publications
‘Ethics and Literature (including
Levinas)’ [a chapter consisting of approximately one hundred 250-word
reviews]. The Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. Ed. Robert
Clark. Vol. 321, Literary Studies: Critical Theory. CD-ROM and World-Wide Web. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets
& Zeitlinger, April 1998 and subsequent issues.
‘Dickens in Denmark.’ Dickens in Europe. St Louis University,
Madrid, October 2008.
‘What’s So Special about Literature?’
9th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English.
University of Aarhus, August 2008.
‘Body Counts, Soldiers and Civilians: Some
Political Fictions.’ Nordic Association for English Studies. University
of Bergen, May 2007.
‘The Ethical Turn’s Animal Twist.’
Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics. Ghent
University, April 2005.
‘To Follow: the Beast that Follows:
Derrida and Lear.’ Shakespeare and
Philosophy in a Multicultural World. Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, March 2004.
‘Accountancy and Accountability: Whether
Literature Really Adds Up.’ Transatlantic
Poetics and the Disciplines of Literature. Queen’s University,
Belfast, July 2003.
‘The Ethical Paws: Montaigne, Derrida, and
the Cat’s Philosophy.’ North-East Modern Language Association,
Boston, MA, March 2003.
‘Eliot Agonistes: Deprecations of a Lapse
of Taste.’ University of Aalborg, October 2002.
‘Crossing the English Channel in the 1880s and 1990s: Two Futuristic Fictions of Transnational Insecurity.’ European Society for the Study of English. Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, August/September 2002.
‘Text and Substance in the English Channel.’ European Society for the Study of English. Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, August/September 2002.
‘Solitary Walkers, Encountering Blocks: Ontology and Ethics in Romanticism, Contemporary Land Art and Minimalism.’ Seeing Things: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Literature and the Visual. 5th British Council Symposium on English Studies in Europe. University of Tours, September 2001.
‘Literary Language and the Scientific Description of Consciousness.’ European Society for the Study of English. University of Helsinki, August 2000.
‘Blake’s Skyscrapers.’ The City in Literature. University of Leiden, March 2000.
‘Crossing the Channel, from One Century to the Next: Anglo-French Literary Transactions in the 1890s and 1990s.’ Fin de sičcle / fin de millénaire. Engelsk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, March 1999.
‘The Comedy of Sadness: Dombey and Son.’ Dickens: The Craft of Fiction and the Challenges of Reading. Universitŕ degli studi di Milano, Gargnano, September 1998.
‘The Poisoned Memory of Modernism.’ International Society for the Study of European Ideas: Memory and History—European Identity at the Millennium. Utrecht, August 1996.
‘Crossing the Channel with Dickens.’ Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, June 1996.
‘Dickens’s Memory Carton: A Box of Unpleasant Remains.’ Memory. Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield, March 1996.
‘Some Trouble with Authors: Blake, Joyce and Derrida.’ Staff/postgraduate seminar. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, January 1996.
‘Not Growing Up with Dickens: Great Expectations.’ Annual Aberystwyth and Swansea Staff/student Colloquium, Gregynog Hall, Powys, October 1995.
‘Difficult Writing and Obstructive Form in Blake and Derrida.’ Applied Derrida. University of Luton, July 1995.
‘Chiasmus and Cruelty in Ulysses.’ Postgraduate seminar, University College London, March 1992.
‘Saussure, Ben Jonson and Henry James.’ The Critical Theory Seminar, University College London, November 1991.
‘Murdering the Innocents: Blake, Dickens
and Joyce.’ Staff/postgraduate seminar, University College London, February
1991.
Member, Editorial Board, Textus (Associazione
Italiana di Anglistica), 2008–
Member, Academic Programme Committee, 10th
conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of
Turin (August 2010), 2008–10
Principal organiser and chair of organising and
academic committees, 9th International Conference of the European Society for
the Study of English, University of Aarhus, 22–26 August 2008
Member, Editorial Board, European Journal of English Studies, 2006–
Member, Conference Reform Committee, European
Society for the Study of English, 2005–06
Participant, School of Criticism and Theory,
Cornell University, 2002 (Professor Vincent Pecora’s
seminar)
Organiser, “The English Research
Seminar”, University of Aarhus, 2001–04
Organiser, ‘Mind–Brain’ interdepartmental cognition seminar series, AU, 1999–2000
Organiser, ‘Fin de sičcle / fin de millénaire’ seminar series, Engelsk Institut, AU, March-December, 1999
Consultant reader, Macmillan Press, 1996–
Principal organiser, international conference, Literature and Ethics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 4–7, 1996
Joint organiser, international conference, Consumption, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, June 29–30, 1996
Founder and Chair, 1991–92, The Critical Theory Seminar, Department of English, University College London
Participant, School of Criticism and Theory,
Dartmouth College, 1991 (Professor Stanley Cavell’s seminar)
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