Paul Eisenstein

Paul Eisenstein

Phone
614-823-1609

Email
peisenstein@otterbein.edu

Office
Towers Hall 227

Professor
Department of English

Education

  • Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1996
  • Ohio State University, M.A., 1991
  • Ohio State University, B.A., 1989

Research, Creative, & Professional Work

  • The Novel Since 1945
  • Critical Theory
  • Holocaust Studies
  • Cinema: History & Criticism

    • Publications

  • Rupture:聽 On the Emergence of the Political聽(with Todd McGowan). Northwestern University Press, 2012 ()
  • Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject聽(State University of New York Press, 2003). ()
  • "The Sovereign Signifier:聽 Agamben and the Nonhuman."听Lacan and the Nonhuman. Eds. Gautam Basu Thankar and Jonathan Dickstein.聽 Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 135-153.
  • "Toward 'What Bleeds or Trembles': Reflections on Bergman鈥檚聽Wild Strawberries."听American Imago. 72.2 (Summer 2016): 229-234.
  • "The Summons of Freedom:聽 Fantastic History in Jonathan聽Safran聽Foer鈥檚聽Everything聽is Illuminated."听Fantastic Modalities in Holocaust Literature and Film. Eds. John Edgar Browning and Judith Kerman.聽McFarland, 2015. 82-101.
  • "Devouring Holes: Darren Aronosfky's聽Requiem for a Dream聽and the Tectonics of Psychoanalysis."听International Journal of Zizek Studies 1.3聽(Autumn 2007): 1-23
  • "Night聽and Critical Thinking."听Approaches to Teaching Elie Wiesel's聽Night. Ed. Alan Rosen. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007. 107-114.
  • "On the Ethics of Sanctified Sacrifice: John Irving's聽A Prayer for Owen Meany."听LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory聽17.1 (January-March 2006): 1-21