Insook Webber

Thompson Hall 101G

Biography

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

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

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.