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Publications:
  • Perversion and the Social Relation, Duke University Press, 2003.  Essays edited with Molly Rothenberg and Slavoj Zizek.
  • Sublime Enjoyment:  On the Perverse Motive in American Literature, Cambridge University Press,1997.
  • Confession and Complicity in Narrative, Cambridge University Press,1987.
  • "The little children can be bitten':  A Hunger for Dracula," in Bedford critical edition of Dracula, 2002.
Courses/Seminars:
  • Contemporary Critical Theory
  • British and American Modernism
  • Psychoanalysis and Literature
  • Contemporary Fiction
Dennis Foster’s writing has explored various dimensions of narrative and culture as they are informed by psychoanalysis.  His work on confession, perversion and politics examines how unconscious expressions reveal something of the motives and ends of writing, film, and cultural voices.  He has taught courses on psychoanalytic and critical theory, contemporary fiction, British and American Modernism, and major figures ranging from Poe and James to William Burroughs.  He is currently writing about the role Alain Badiou plays in literary studies.
   
Dennis Foster
D.D. Frensley Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office:   Dallas Hall Room 5
Office Hours:   TTh 2-3
Phone:   214-768-2921
Email:   dfoster@smu.edu
Webpage:   http://faculty.smu.edu/dfoster/

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