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Dr Greg Hainge

BA Hons (Nottingham), MA (Nottingham), PhD (Nottingham)

Reader in French

Office: Gordon Greenwood Building (#32) 435
Phone: (+61 7) 3365 2282
Email: g.hainge@uq.edu.au

Greg completed his PhD on Céline and Deleuze and Guattari at the University of Nottingham, UK, before taking up a job at the University of Adelaide in 1999 and arrived at the University of Queensland in 2005.

In recent times his research has become very diverse and he has published on film, critical theory, university policy, experimental music and popular music. His main research at the present time is examining the phenomenon of noise as it is manifested in cultural products and philosophy.

Greg teaches French language and the cultural studies options he teaches include: Multiculturalism in France, Contemporary French Cinema, Céline and Sartre and he is supervising theses on Bacon, Burroughs and Rimbaud and Heavy Metal.

Teaching:

• Intermediate and Advanced levels in French
• French cinema and literature
• French Theory / Continental Philosophy.

Subjects taught include:

• Le cinéma en français
• French Language B and C
• Doing Things with French Theory
• Francophone Cultures
• Questioning the Western Tradition
• Textes et modernités.

Research interests:

• 20th-century French literature (especially Céline)
• Continental Philosophy (especially Deleuze and Guattari)
• French cinema,
• experimental electronic music
• non-mainstream popular music
• American cinema (Coen Brothers, David Lynch)
• Critical architecture
• Noise.

Current research projects:

• Noise: Contemporary modes of acoutic expression and their relationship to analysis and culture.

Selected recent publications.

Sole-authored book: 

• Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline; D'un … l'autre (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), 276 p.

Chapters in collected volumes: 

• ‘The Unbearable Blandness of Being: The Everyday and Muzak in Barton Fink and Fargo’, in Collected Essays on the Coen Brothers, edited by Joe Walker and Keith Perry (tbc: forthcoming, 2007)
• ‘No Sympathy for the Devil or Lobby Music: Spaces of Disjunction in Barton Fink, The Shining, and Muzak’, Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film, ed. by Dave Clarke (tbc: forthcoming 2007).
• ‘Interdisciplinarity in Rhizome Minor: On Avoiding Rigor Mortis Through a Rigorous Approach to Jazz, Metal, Wasps, Orchids and Other Strange Couplings’, in Rhizomes: Connecting Languages, Cultures and Literatures. Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research in Language Studies, ed. by Nathalie Ramière and Rachel Varshney (Cambridge Scholars Press: forthcoming 2007).
• ‘L’Invention du Troisième Peuple: The Utopian Vision of Philippe Grandrieux’s Dystopias’, in Utopia/Dystopia, ed. by John West-Sooby (University of Delaware Press: forthcoming 2007). 
• ‘To(rt)uring the Minotaur: Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings and Mainstream Subversion’, in Strobe-Lights and Blown Speakers: The Music and Art of Radiohead, edited by Joseph Tate (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2005), pp.62-84.
• ‘Allegorical Geographies: Topographical Transposition and Allegorical Function in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Aesthetic Spaces’, Discursive Geographies: Writing Space and Place in French, ed. by Jeanne Garane (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005), pp.25-38
• ‘Weird or Loopy? Specular Spaces, Feedback and Artifice in Lost Highway’s Aesthetics of Sensation’, in The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visionsed. by Annette Davison & Erica Sheen (London: Wallflower Press, 2004), pp.136-150. 
• ‘Is Pop Music?’, in Deleuze and Music, edited by Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), pp.36-53. 
• ‘The Death of Education, a Sad Tale: Of Anti-pragmatic Pragmatics and the Loss of the Absolute in Australian Tertiary Education’, in Innovation and Tradition: Arts, Humanities and the Knowledge Economy, ed. by Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen and Simon Robb (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), pp.35-45.
• ‘Le fol amour du Dr Destouches, ou comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à lire les pamphlets: Louis-Ferdinand Céline et Stanley Kubrick’, Actualité de Céline (Tusson: Du Lérot, 2001), pp.143-158. 
• ‘When the End is the Means; Becoming-Music in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s German Trilogy’, Dialogues, 2, ed. by Ann Amherst and Katherine Astbury (Exeter: Elmbank Publications, 1999), pp.77-83
• ‘Quand je ne peut être autre; Féerie pour une autre fois de Louis-Ferdinand Céline’, in Le Moi littéraire, ed. by Russell King, Essais sur la Littérature Française et Francophone, 1 (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, Department of French, 1999), pp.85-93

Sole-authored refereed journal articles:

•  ‘Unfixing the Photographic Image: Photography, Indexicality, Fidelity and Normativity’, Continuum (forthcoming: 2007/8).
• ‘Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl: The Work of Recording and Mourning in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Culture Machine (forthcoming: 2007).
• ‘Of Glitch and Men: The Place of the Human in the Successful Integration of Failure and Noise in the Digital Realm’, Communication Theory 17 (2007), 26–42.
• ‘The Architect’s Scalpel: The Monstrous Digital Futures of Alexa Wright’s Precious’, Social Semiotics (forthcoming: 2007). 
• ‘Le corps concret: Of Bodily and Filmic Material Excess in Philippe Grandrieux’s cinema’, Australian Journal of French Studies (forthcoming: 2007).
• ‘Tempest in Another Time: Shakespeare, Greenaway, Céline’, Romanic Review 97.1 (2006), 15-32. 
• ‘“Pagan Poetry”, Piercing, Pain and the Politics of Becoming’, Scan 1.3 ‘Bodily (Trans)Formations (2004) <http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?recordID=43> (11/01/05).
• ‘No(i)stalgia: On the Impossibility of Recognising Noise in the Present’, Culture, Theory and Critique 46.1 (2005), 1-10. 
• ‘The Language of Suffering: The Place of Pain in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Féerie pour une autre fois’, L’Esprit créateur 45.3 (2005), 18-28.
• ‘The Sound of Time is not tick tock: The Loop as a Direct Image of Time in Noto’s Endless Loop Edition (2) and the Drone Music of Phill Niblock’, Invisible Culture 8 (2004), http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_8/hainge.html
• ‘Le Prologue de Guignol’s band comme porte vers l’espace lisse, ou, chronique manquée d’une réussite à venir’, Essays in French Literature 40 (2003), 57-79.
• ‘Platonic Relations: The Problem of the Loop in Contemporary Electronic Music’, in m/c: a journal of media and culture 5.4 (2002), <http://www.media-culture.org.au/0208/platonic.html> (08/08/2002).
• ‘Come on Feel the Noise: Technology and its Dysfunctions in the Music of Sensation’, To The Quick 5 (2002), 42-58.
• ‘Seeing Silence: Filmic and Acoustic Convergences in the Work of Thierry Knauff and Francisco López’, Culture, Theory and Critique 43.2 (2002), 155-170.
• ‘A Whisper or a Scream? Experimental Music Sounds a Warning for the Future of Theory’, in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 16.3 (2002), 285-298.
• ‘Impossible Narratives: Colonial Spaces of Dissolution in Voyage au bout de la nuit and To Have and to Hold’, Australian Journal of French Studies 38.2(2001), 253-271.
• ‘The Art of Automythography: The Role of Myth in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s German Trilogy’, New Comparison 32 (2001), 53-65.

Sole-authored refereed conference publications:

Other activities and service.

• Culture, Theory and Critique, editorial board.
• Études Céliniennes, editorial board.
• President of the Australian Society for French Studies.
• Australia and NZ Representative of the Société d'Études Céliniennes.

• ‘L’insoutenable pesanteur de l’être et l’esthétique imperceptible: l’épisode de la brique dans Rigodon’, Pesanteur et légèreté selon Céline; Actes du XIII^e colloque international Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Prague (Paris: Société d’Études céliniennes, 2001), pp.181-192.
•  ‘Céline; classique anti-classique’, in Classicisme de Céline; Actes du XII^e colloque international Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Paris: Société d’Études céliniennes, 1999), pp.155-167.
• ‘The Atomic Construction of Pablo Neruda’s Littérature Engagée: The Dialectical Poetics of Canto general’, in 4th Hispanic Studies Postgraduate Conference, ed. by Isidoro Pisonero Del Amo, M^a José Gámez Fuentes and Greg Hainge (London: Embajada de España, Consejería de Educación y Ciencia, 1996), pp.69-77.