Deconstruction – Posthumanism – Digital Gaming
Laurent Milesi

Selected publications (click here for a fuller CV, updated 08.11.2025)

Monographs / Edited Volumes / Translations

Front

• James Joyce’s Poetics of Gramma(r) and Languages at the ‘Wake’ (Editura Universității de Vest din Timișoara, 2023)
• James Joyce and the Difference of Language (Cambridge UP, 2003)
• (with Christopher Müller and Aidan Tynan) Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017)
• (with Stefan Herbrechter) Jacques Derrida, H. C. for Life, That Is to Say… (Stanford UP, 2006)
• Jacques Derrida, Thinking ouf ot Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible, ed. Ginette Michaud et al. (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
• Hélène Cixous, Zero’s Neighbour: Sam Beckett (Polity, 2010)
• Hélène Cixous, Philippines (Polity, 2010)
• Hélène Cixous, Tomb(e) (Seagull Books, 2014)

Academic links

• Academia.edu
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• PhilPeople
• ResearchGate

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics

Edited Journal Issues

• (ed. with Marta Segarra) Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 14 (2024): ‘What Remains Today – Jacques Derrida’ [ESCI, Scopus]
• (ed. with Arleen Ionescu and Edward Waysband) Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 13 (2023): ‘Speculations of the Unconscious: Encounters between Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Arts’ [ESCI, Scopus]
• Parallax 28.2: ‘Gaming and Affect’ (2022) [A&HCI/SSCI]
• (ed. with Radu Vancu), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 12: ‘“Make It New” Once Again: Experimental Trends in 21^st-Century Poetry in English’ (2022) [ESCI, Scopus]
• (ed. with Rodolfo Piskorski), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 11: ‘Animality and Textuality’ (2021) [ESCI, Scopus]
• (ed. with Arleen Ionescu and Biwu Shang), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 9: ‘Postclassical Narratology: Twenty Years Later’ (2019) [ESCI, Scopus]
• Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 7: ‘‘50 Years + – The Age of “New French Theory” (1966-1970)’ (2017) [Scopus]
• (ed. with Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter) Parallax 21.1: ‘Deconstruction – Space – Ethics’ (2015) [A&HCI/SSCI]
• Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 4.1: ‘‘“Keep It New”: Recent Trends in Experimental Fiction in English’ (2014) [Scopus]
• (ed. with Ivan Callus), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 1.2 (2011): ‘Limits of Criticism / Critique of the Limits’ [Scopus]

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• ‘Mes sorcières bien/mal aimées: Étude de wiccaphilie comparée chez Chloé Delaume et Hélène Cixous’, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 30.1: ‘Chloé Delaume: Une œuvre intermédiale, ed. Dawn M. Cornelio and Eugénie Péron-Douté (2026), pp. 66-77 [A&HCI]
• (with Arleen Ionescu) ‘Lastness: Blanchot’s “First” Extremities’, Oxford Literary Review 47.2: ‘A Green Blanchot Revisited’, ed. Philippe Lynes (2025), pp. 213-32 [A&HCI]
• (with Arleen Ionescu), ‘Beckett in the Posthuman Technocene: A Review Essay of Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose and Samuel Beckett and Technology’, Partial Answers 22.2 (2024), pp. 387-97 [A&HCI]
• ‘Enacting Postmemory in Hélène Cixous’s “Jewish Family Romance”’, Parallax 29.4: ‘Holocaust Narratives in the Post-Testimonial Era’, ed. Arleen Ionescu and Simona Mitroiu (2023), pp. 47-66 [A&HCI/SSCI]
• (with Arleen Ionescu), Review-Essay, ‘A Tale of Two Theories: John Pier (ed.), Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology’, Style 57.1 (2023), pp. 90-107 [AHCI]
• ‘Gaming (with) Affect and Trauma: An Introduction’, Parallax 28.2: ‘Gaming and Affect’, ed. Laurent Milesi (2022), pp. 137-149 [A&HCI]
• ‘Mind Games: Affective Ludo(bio)technologies of Fear’, Parallax 28.2: ‘Gaming and Affect’, ed. Laurent Milesi (2022), pp. 195-212 [A&HCI]
• (with Arleen Ionescu) ‘Re-Membering – A Plea for Togetherness’, Oxford Literary Review 44.1: ‘Commemorations’, ed. Peggy Kamuf (2022), pp. 110-20 [A&HCI]
• ‘B Effects: Bonds of Form and Time in Barthes, Blanchot and Beckett’, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 45.2: ‘Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes: Unspoken Dialogues’, ed. Claire Lozier, Andy Stafford and Jivitesh Vashisht (2022), pp. 157-71 [A&HCI]
• ‘Freud’s Uncanny in the Posthuman Valley’, Oxford Literary Review, vol. 42, no. 2: ‘“We Ourselves Speak a Language that is Foreign”: One Hundred Years of Freud’s Uncanny’, ed. Nicholas Royle (2020), pp. 247-51 [A&HCI]
• ‘Virturéalité et autogenèse. Les (re)constructions de « Chloé Delaume » sur chloedelaume.net’, Genesis. Revue internationale de critique génétique, no. 50: ‘Aragon’, ed. and intr. Luc Vigier (2020), pp. 147-56
• ‘De-monstrating Monsters: Unmastering (in) Derrida and Cixous’, Parallax, vol. 25, no. 3: ‘Unidentified Literary Objects’, ed. Camilla Bostock and Sarah Jackson (2019), pp. 269-87 [A&HCI/SSCI]
• ‘Fo(u)nts of Etymology: Abstraction and the Absolute in “Faith and Knowledge…”’, Journal for Cultural Research 22 (2019), pp. 358-67
• ‘Chinoiseries: Hallucinating Derrida Hallucinating China’, Oxford Literary Review 40.1: ‘1967 + 50: The Age of Grammatology’ (2018), pp. 95-107 [A&HCI]
• ‘Countertexting One Another: Conceptual Poetics, Flarf and Derridean Countersignature’, CounterText 1.2: ‘Toward Countertextuality’, ed. Ivan Callus and James Corby (2015), pp. 207-31
• ‘SÉANCE TENANTE: Deconstruction in (the) Place of Ethics Now’, Parallax 21.1: ‘Deconstruction – Space – Ethics’, ed. Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter and Laurent Milesi (2015), pp. 6-25 [A&HCI/SSCI]
• ‘Cixanalyses: Towards a Reading of Anankè’, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 36.2: ‘Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis’, ed. Mark Dawson, Mairéad Hanrahan and Eric Prenowitz (2013), pp. 286–302 [A&HCI/SSCI]
• ‘Towards a Cryptanalysis: Genealogies of “Lit-Crypts” from Poe to the “Posts”’, Parallax 15.1: ‘Inscr(i/y)ptions’, ed. Mark Dawson (2009), pp. 100-14 [A&HCI/SSCI]
• ‘Saint-Je Derrida’, Oxford Literary Review 29: ‘Derridanimals’, ed. Neil Badmington (2008), pp. 55-75 [A&HCI]
• ‘Portrait of H. C. as J. D. and Back’, New Literary History 37.1: ‘Hélène Cixous: When the Word is a Stage’, ed. Eric Prenowitz (2006), pp. 51-70 [A&HCI]
• ‘Postmodern Ana-Apocalyptics: Pynchon’s V-Effect and the End (of Our Century)’, Pynchon Notes 42-43: ‘Approach and Avoid: Essays on Gravity’s Rainbow’, ed. Luc Herman 1998), pp. 213-43
• ‘The Dramatisation and Revolution of Slav(e)s in Finnegans Wake’, Irish Slavonic Studies 15 (1996), pp. 45-64
• ‘Figuring Out Ashbery: “The Skaters”’, Revue française d’études américaines 67: ‘La poésie américaine: constructions lyriques’ (1996), pp. 45-57 [A&HCI]
• ‘Towards a Female Grammar of Sexuality: The De/Recomposition of “Storiella as she is syung”’, Modern Fiction Studies 35.3: ‘Feminist Readings of Joyce’ (1989), pp. 569‑86 [A&HCI]
  • Forthcoming / In progress
• ‘Exile Within and Without: The Lost Gardens of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida’, to appear in Arcadia 61.1: ‘Twentieth-Century Jewish Exile Remembered’, ed. Arleen Ionescu, Leona Toker and Edward Waysband (June 2026), pp. 56-71 [A&HCI]

Book Chapters

• ‘(H)allophonies: Cixous, Derrida and Others on the Line’, in Telepoetics:Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory, ed. Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026), pp. 131-44
• ‘Bookcities and Cityscapes: Going Places with Hélène Cixous (Alongside Joyce and Kafka)’, in Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism, ed. Peggy Kamuf (London: Bloomsbury, 2026), 10-19, 234-8
• ‘Posthumanism and Digital Gaming’, in Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, ed. Stefan Herbrechter et al. (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 575-606; also at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_6-1
• ‘Literature between Antidote and Black Magic: The Autofiction of Chloé Delaume’, in Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma, ed. Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020), pp. 159-85
• ‘Cyber-Ego Sum: Autofiction versus Psychoanalysis’, in Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-210
• ‘“We Are All Theorists Nowadays”: The “Institutionalisation” of (French) Theory’, in French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK, ed. Irving Goh (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 15-31
• ‘Video-gaming in(to) Literature: “Virtual CorpoReality” in Chloé Delaume’s Corpus Simsi’, in Intermedia Games – Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality, ed. Michael Fuchs and Jeff Thoss (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 153-66
• ‘From Mallarmé to the Event: Badiou after Derrida’, in After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21^st Century, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 143-58
• ‘In the Beginning was the Nil: The “Eloquence of Silence” in Finnegans Wake’, in James Joyce’s Silences, ed. Jolanta W. Wawrzycka and Serenella Zanotti (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 61-77
• ‘Les fleurs du mâle. Anthographies de la “signature polysexuée” dans Glas’, in Genre et signature, ed. Frédéric Regard and Anne Tomiche (Paris: Garnier, 2018), pp. 49-77
• ‘Believing in Deconstruction’, in Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money, ed. Laurent Milesi, Christopher Müller and Aidan Tynan (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), pp. 271-99
• ‘Speeds of (Post)Modernity’, in Literature and the Long Modernity, ed. Mihaela Irimia and Andreea Paris (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014), pp. 199-224
• ‘Sponge Inc’, in The Animal Question in Deconstruction, ed. Lynn Turner (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), pp. 70-88
• ‘Sero-positives: Belatedness and Affirmation in Joyce, Cixous, and Derrida’, in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, ed. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013), pp. 201-12
• ‘St!le-in-Deconstruction’, in Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy, ed. Ivan Callus, James Corby and Gloria Lauri-Lucente (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), pp. 217-48
• ‘(Post-)Heideggerian Hamlet’, in Posthumanist Shakespeares, ed. Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 181-93
• ‘The Habitus of Language(s) in Finnegans Wake’, in Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, ed. Valérie Bénéjam and John Bishop (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 145-54
• ‘Joyce’s English’, in A Companion to the History of the English Language (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture), ed. Haruko Momma and Michael Matto (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), pp. 471-78
• ‘Thinking (Through) the Desert (la pensée du désert) With(in) Jacques Derrida’, in The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy, ed. Martin McQuillan (London: Pluto Press, 2007), pp. 173-91
• ‘From Logos to Muthos: The Philosophy of Pound’s and Olson’s Mythopoetics’, in Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under “Post-” Conditions, ed. Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia / Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006), pp. 215-38
• ‘Joyce, Language and Languages’, in Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 144-61
• ‘French Thinking / Thinking French – In Translation’, in Discipline and Practice: The (Ir)resistibility of Theory, ed. Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004), pp. 107-22
• ‘Language(s) with a Difference’, Introduction to James Joyce and the Difference of Language, ed. Laurent Milesi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 1-27
• ‘Supplementing Babel: Paget in VI.B.32’, in James Joyce: The Study of Languages, ed. Dirk Van Hulle (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 75-89
• ‘“Promnesia” (Remembering Forward) in Midnight’s Children; or Rushdie’s Chutney versus Proust’s Madeleine’, in Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in Its Relations to the Senses, ed. Michael Syrotinski and Ian Maclachlan (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2001), pp. 179-212
• ‘Between Barthes, Blanchot, and Mallarmé: Skia(Photo)-Graphies of Derrida’, in The French Connections of Jacques Derrida, ed. Julian Wolfreys, John Brannigan and Ruth Robbins (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), pp. 175-209
• ‘Zo(o)graphies: “Évolutions” darwiniennes de quelques fictions animales’, in L’Animal autobiographique. Autour de Jacques Derrida, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (Paris: Galilée, 1999), pp. 9-46
• ‘ALP in Roumanian (with some notes on Roumanian in Finnegans Wake and in the notebooks)’, in Transcultural Joyce, ed. Karen R. Lawrence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 199-207
• ‘Joyce’s Anamorphic Mirror in “The Sisters”’, in European Joyce Studies 7: New Perspectives on Dubliners, ed. Mary Power and Uli Schneider (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 91-113
• ‘“Have you not forgot to wind up the clock?”: Tristram Shandy and Jacques le Fataliste on the (Post?)modern Psychoanalytic Couch’, in Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism, ed. David Pierce and Pieter de Voogt (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 179-95
• ‘Finnegans Wake: The Obliquity of Trans‑lations’, in Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays, ed. Morris Beja and David Norris (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996), pp. 279-89
• ‘Killing Lewis with Einstein: “Secting Time” in Finnegans Wake’, in European Joyce Studies 4: Finnegans Wake, “teems of time”, ed. Andrew Treip (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 9-20
• ‘The Perversions of “Aerse” and the Anglo‑Irish Middle Voice in Finnegans Wake’, in Joyce Studies Annual 1993, ed. Thomas F. Staley (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993), pp. 98‑118
• ‘La variante joycienne et perecquienne: Etudes contrastives’, in L’écriture et ses doubles: Genèse et variation textuelle, ed. Daniel Ferrer and Jean‑Louis Lebrave (Paris: CNRS, 1991), pp. 175‑213
• ‘Metaphors of the Quest in Finnegans Wake’, in European Joyce Studies 2: ‘Finnegans Wake: Fifty Years’, ed. Geert Lernout (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990), pp. 79‑107
• ‘L’idiome babélien de Finnegans Wake: Recherches thématiques dans une perspective génétique’, in Genèse de Babel: Joyce et la création, ed. Claude Jacquet (Paris: CNRS, 1985), pp. 155‑215
  • Forthcoming / In progress
• ‘Styling Language and Writing in Tongues’, to appear in Bloomsbury Handbook to James Joyce, ed. Valérie Bénéjam and Sam Slote (2027)
• ‘The “Dark Continent” of écriture féminine’, to appear in The Bloomsbury Companion to French Poststructuralist Feminism, ed.  Maria Margaroni, Gertrude Postl and Elena Tzelepis. London: Bloomsbury (2027)