Charles Talcott
Associate Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
- Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
- Office:G-402
Professor Talcott joined The American University of Paris after completing his PhD within the interdisciplinary program Philosophy, Literature & Critical Theory at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also holds an MA in Continental Philosophy and obtained a DEA degree from Universit茅 de Paris IV - La Sorbonne where he specialized in the French fin-de-si猫cle. His research interests draw extensively from critical and legal theory, cultural studies & rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy.
His current teaching and research circulates within the complex geographies of colonial and post-colonial memory, media and narrative. Tracing lines of travel and displacement, his work explores the political and cultural significance of instances of legal and linguistic difference with media structures past and present. Within Global Communications, he teaches in the areas of media law, sustainable development & development communications, memory studies, visual culture, critical theory, rhetoric and post-colonial theory.
Education/Degrees
- PhD, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA
- MA, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA
- DEA,Universit茅 de Paris IV, Sorbonne, France
- BA, Seattle University, USA
Conferences & Lectures
- 鈥淭hai me up, Thai me down: 鈥楾he Bad Life鈥� of Politicized Prostitution; The legal case against Fr茅d茅ric Mitterrand鈥檚 鈥淟a Mauvaise Vie,鈥澛� Brown University, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, March 19-20, 2010.
- "Materializing Belief: Nicolas Sarkozy's Sovereign Wager," Second Annual NYU Media Culture & Communications 鈥� The American University of Paris Symposium, Media and Belief: Religion, Authority, Vision, June 19, 2009.
- 鈥淎rresting the Global: The Translation of Law in Postcolonial Fiction,鈥� Harvard University, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference, March 26-28, 2009.
- 鈥淐olonizing History: The Return of Colonial Sovereignty in Contemporary French 鈥楳emorial鈥� Laws,鈥� Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, April 3rd-4th, 2009.
- 鈥淟egislating the Postcolonial Imagination: French Law and the 'fracture coloniale',鈥� University of Glasgow School of Law, Critical Legal Strategies conference, September 5th-7th, 2008.
- 鈥淪ingularly Criminal? The Letter of the Law in the 'Post-Colonial',鈥� Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 鈥楤eyond Reasonable Doubt鈥�: Conversations in Literature, Law and Philosophy conference, September 7th -9th, 2007.
- 鈥淎merican Theory,鈥� panel speaker and participant in roundtable discussion, 鈥淔resh Th茅orie鈥� series 鈥淟e lundi c'est th茅orie II,鈥� Fondation d鈥檈ntreprise Ricard, February 19th, 2007.
- 鈥淯n-translating Law: Culture Translation and the Trope of Law in Postcolonial Fiction,鈥� Georgetown Law School, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, March 23rd -24th, 2007.
- Respondent to a paper given by David Saunders entitled 鈥淥utlawing Theory: Pierre Schlag and Bruno Latour on Law, not Theory鈥� within the "Local Vital Legal- Regards Crois茅s鈥� joint seminar series in Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy, The American University of Paris, March 20th, 2007.
- 鈥淛acking the Twist: Lacanian Tragedy and Annie Proulx鈥檚 鈥楤rokeback Mountain鈥�,鈥� Politics & Jouissance through Literature series sponsored by the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, held at The American University of Paris, May 2006.
- 鈥淒errida and the Law: Post-colonialism and the Laws of the Monolingual,鈥� Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, Syracuse University School of Law, USA, March 2006.
- 鈥淢inor Uses of Law: Post-colonial literatures and the deterritorialization of Law,鈥� Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities (ASLCH) annual conference, University of Texas at Austin, USA, March 2005.