Assistant Professor, English
B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Concordia), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Durham Campus 156 ext. 5025, cprincipe@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Comparative Literature (biblical studies and twentieth-century genres, including science fiction); Modernist and Postmodernist poetry and fiction; Canadian Literature; experimental genres; Trauma Literature; Creative Writing and Writing Studies; Mad literature. Concetta Principe’s current scholarship focuses on the relationship between culture and madness from a Lacanian perspective. Alongside her scholarly publications, she has also published books of poetry and creative non-fiction.
Disorder - (poetry) Gordon Hill Press, forthcoming spring 2024
Discipline n.v. : A Lyric Dictionary – (cnf) Palmpsest Press, Spring 2023
Editor of Special Issue of English Studies in Canada, “Lacan Now”, winter 2023.
She co-editor From Cogito to Covid: A Rethinking of Lacan’s ‘Science and Truth’ Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.
“The Truth of Lacan’s Name of the Father: A Reconsideration of the ‘truth’ in “Science and Truth”’ in From Cogito to Covid: The Truth of Lacan’s Truth in “Science and Truth” with Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide (cnf), Gordon Hill Press, Spring 2021, 162 pp.
“Anne Carson’s ‘Book of Isaiah’ and The Secular Unconscious” with Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Blind Review. Spring 2020.
Conversion: Or a Theory, (poetry) Frog Hollow Press, Vancouver, 2019. 40 pp.
This Real. (poetry) Pedlar Press, 2017. 104 pp.
“The Limits of Trauma Theory through Hiroshima, mon amour” at Psychoanalytic Discourse/ Discours psychoanalytique (PSYAD). Blind Review. Issue 4, October, 2017: 59-70. Online.
Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s ‘Real’: A Lacanian Approach. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
“Reading the Messianic in Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics and MacEwen’s T. E. Lawrence Poems.” The Bible and Critical Theory, Vol 13, No. 2 (2017): 34-44.
Hiroshima: a love war story. (poetry) Pedlar Press, 2016. 88 pp.
“The Trauma of The Making of Americans: Stein and Protestant America.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. Blind Review. Issue 16, No 2, Fall 2013. 20 pp.
“Spivak’s Fantasy of Silence: A Secular look at Suicide.” Journal of Cultural Research. Blind Review. Vol 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2012): 234-254. Online.
walking: not a nun’s diary. (poetry) Montreal: Punchy Poetry Series. Montreal: DC Books, 2013.
“Being Real: A Lacanian Analysis of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red”. Open Letter Convergences, Collaborative Expressions. 15th Series, No. 1, (Fall 2012).
Interference, (poetry). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 1999.
Stained Glass (a novella). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 1997.