Insook Webber, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of French and Film Studies, Career Track – Scholarly

Coordinator of Film Studies

 

Biography

BA, MA & PhD in French Studies, University of Washington
(Dissertation: “Valéry, His Context and Legacy”)

Research Interests

20^th-21^st century French literature & cinema with French philosophy, critical theory and psychoanalysis as primary theoretical framework.

Publications

Articles

• Webber, Insook. “Dreams, Repetition and the Real in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine”, chapter in an edited volume, Dreams and Atrocity: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art, Literature and Visual Culture’, eds. Emily-Rose Baker and Diane Otosaka, U of Manchester P, UK, 2022, pp. 181-198.

• Webber, Insook. “Tuché, The Unnamable Evil in Emmanuel Carrère’s La Classe de neige”, Études Francophones, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2022, pp. 19-36.

• Webber, Insook. “Dumont, Bataille, and the Materialist Sacred,” French Studies, vol. 72, no. 1, 2018, pp. 73–86.

• Webber, Insook. “Pure and Applied Consciousness in Valéry and Sartre,” French Studies, vol. 68, no. 2, 2014, pp. 209–223.

• Webber, Insook. “Valéry and Houellebecq: The Death (or the Return) of the Subject,” Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 50, no. 3, 2013, pp. 318-331.

• Webber, Insook. “Valéry’s Materialist Conception of Consciousness and Its Consequences,” Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, CXII (Art, Literature, and Passions of the Skies), Spring 2012, 179-187.

Book Reviews

• Webber, Insook. “Donner Sa Langue Aux Bêtes: Poétique et Animalité de Baudelaire à Valéry Par Julien Weber (review).” French Studies, vol. 73, no. 3, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 475–475.

• Webber, Insook. “Sartre sous l’Occupation et après: Nouvelles mises au point Par Ingrid Galster (review)”, French Studies, vol. 69, no. 3, 2015, pp. 412-413.