Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
I am Alireza Fakhrkonandeh, a fourth-year PhD. candidate at Warwick University. I did my BA in English Literature at Isfahan University and graduated from it as the top student. I got the 2nd rank in the nationwide MA Entrance Examinations and entered Tehran University for my MA studies. I got my MA in English literature from Tehran University from which I graduated once more as the top student. My MA thesis included a critical analysis of Howard Barker's The Castle and Women Beware Women in the light of seducto-somatic ethics (predicated on Nietzsche, Foucault, Butler's relevant theories of morality and corporeality), Baudrillard’s theory of seduction and feminist stylistics, focusing on the seducto-corporeal strategies that can be adopted and the implementation of which can occasion the disruption of the phallogocentric discourse.
In my PhD thesis I purport to approach and explore Barker’s corpus (theoretical, poetic and dramatic) interweaving philosophical speculation and critical analysis. My thesis has prvisionally been entitled "Howard Barker's Theatre of Aporias: Death as a Liminoid Space for the Aesthetics of the Body/Self and Ethics of the Other/Event". I have developed and advanced two theoretical-argumentative theses which have emerged out of my own philosophical readings of Barker's works and my thesis principally comprises the philosophical elaboration and critical application/demonstration of them.
My supervisors are Prof. Thomas Docherty, Prof. Daniel Katz, and Prof. Anthony Howard. Furthermore, I benefit from having the ensuing readers for the relevant chapters of my PhD thesis: Prof Elizabeth Sakellaridou and Prof. David Ian Rabey, among others.
I am the sole authorized academic transIator of Howard Barker's works (from English into Persian) and have also translated some other plays by Sara Kane, Terry Johnson and Tom Stoppard. I have also written numerous critical articles (in English and Persian) on his plays and his book on death. I have written a book on the linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical aspects of death and silence drawing on works of Blanchot, Heidegger, Bataille, Agamben, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Derrida and Lyotard. I have also published a collection of my poems and proposed a new trend in Iranian poetry called Chaos Poetry.
Teaching:
This year, 2012-2013, I am teaching the following course as the undergraduate first year core module: EN123 Modern World Literatures (to the students of literature):
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/about/people/parttimetutors/
You can also find this link on the navigation pane.
Articles in English:
1." Prufrock: on the Couch or in the Street: A Schizoanalytic Reading of the Poem" in JML (Journal of Modern Literature) 2014.
2. "Blunt Cu/Kant Theory: The Corpus of the Castle Un/Done" in UTQ (University of Toronto Quarterly), 2014.
3. "Noli Me Tangere: The Efflorescence of the Third Skin in the Torsions of Pain" forthcoming in Modern Drama (University of Toronto).
4. "Acousmatic Voice as a Chiasmatic Space" in Symploke (University of Nebraska) forthcoming in 22:1-2, November 2014.
5. "Asyntactic Contact with Fleshless Words" in JCDE (Journal of Contemporary Drama in English) 2nd issue, December 2013.
Link to the journal and article: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jcde-2013-1-issue-2/jcde-2013-0022/jcde-2013-0022.xml?format=INT
6. "Trace, as the Strange Dialogue of Speech and Silence" due to be published in the next issue of PLI 2014.
Conferences:
I presented my article, "Noli Me Tangere: The Efflorescence of the Third Skin in the Torsions of Pain", at the international conference of "Between Bodies/Bodies Between" held in Ireland in April; you can see the details and the schedule of the conference by following the link provided below:
http://maddalo.blogspot.co.uk/p/between-bodies.html#!/p/between-bodies.html
Translations:
1.Victory (by Howard Barker): Farda Pubs.
2. Scenes from an Execution (by Howard Barker): Boutimar Pubs.
3. No End of Blame (by Howard Barker): Gaame No and Farda Pubs.
4. Pity in History (by Howard Barker): Porsesh Pubs.
5. Death, the One and the Art of Theatre (by Howard Barker): Gaame No Pubs.
6. Aporias (by Jacques Derrida): forthcoming
7. The World of Perception (by Merleau-Ponty) Gaame No Pubs.
8. Judith (by Howard Barker) forthcoming
9. Arcadia (by Tom Stoppard) forthcoming
10. Blasted (by Sarah Kane), unbublished
11. Arguments for a Theatre (by Howard Barker) forthcoming
12. Blok/Eko (by Howard Barker) forthcoming
13. The Castle (by Howard Barker) Boutimar Pubs.
14. The Eyes of the Skin (Juhanne Pallasma) Cheshmeh Pubs.
15. Psychosis 4:48 (by Sarah Kane) Mehr Quarterly
16. Hysteria (by Terry Johnson) Mehr Quarterly
Authored Works:
The Lip-prints of Death on the Photo: Essays on the Philosophy of Death
Poetry:
These Who Are Lying Asleep under Your Skin forthcoming by Cheshmeh (Zavosh) Publications later in 2013.
Articles in Persian:
1. "Chaos Poetry"
2. "Bent Lines, Battered Bodies"
3. "Black Contains Infinite Colors"
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
A dot Fakhrkonandeh at warwick dot ac dot uk