Christian Haines

Welcome to Assistant Professor Christian Haines, arriving this fall.

Professor Haines has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dissertation: A Desire Called America: Biopolitics and Utopian Forms of Life in American Literature

Publications

  • "Paradise Actually Exists: Biopolitics and Utopian Praxis in William S. Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads": Haines, Christian, Duke University Press, Genre, 2014.
  • "The Body Utopian; or, Life and Literature at the Intersection of Biopolitics and Utopian Studies": Haines, Christian, Peter Lang, The Next Generation: Emerging Voices in Utopian Studies, 2014.
  • "Oscillations prolétaires: Poésie du travail, travail de la poésie chez Arthur Rimbaud et Walt Whitman [Proletarian Oscillations: the Poetry of Labor, the Labor of Poetry, in Arthur Rimbaud and Walt Whitman]": Haines, Christian, Garnier, Parade Sauvage, 23 , 2012.
  • "Life in Crisis: The Ambivalent Biopolitics of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent": Haines, Christian, Wayne State University Press, Criticism, 54:1 85-115, 2012.
  • "Corporeal Time: The Cinematic Bodies of Arthur RImbaud and Gilles Deleuze". Haines, Christian, Angelaki, Routledge, Author, 2011. 
  • "Specters of the Dialectic: A Review of Fredric Jameson's Valences of the Dialectic": Haines, Christian, Cultural Critique, Winter , 2011.