Mystical Foundations ‑Dailey
Both marginal micro-literatures and mysticism offer themselves as a modus loquendi a way of speaking, and a modus agenda (a way of acting) that comments upon or speaks to a center and speaks it otherwise.
Patricia Dailey
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey joined Columbia faculty in 2004 after a holding a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2002-2004). She specializes in medieval literature and critical theory, focusing on women's mystical texts, and Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the relation between gender, temporality, the body, and language in medieval mystical texts, with a focus on the thirteenth century mystic Hadewijch. Her current book project, In Parentheses, examines the interrelation of literature and lived experience through early medieval English poetry. She is the co-editor, with Veerle Fraeters, of A Companion to Hadewijch (forthcoming, Brill). Articles include, "Riddles, Wonder, and Responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon Literature," in the Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature 500-1150 (2012); "The Body and its Senses" and "Time and Memory" in the Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012); "Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Antwerp," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Spring, 2011); and "Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body, Mind," New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006). Other articles have appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly , Witness Issue (2007), Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature (1999), Les Imaginaires du Mal (2000), the PMLA's special issue on Derrida (2005), and Routledge's Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François Lyotard, and Antonio Negri. She is the founder of the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies (formerly the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium) and co-founder of the Affect Studies University Seminar. She has served as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and is the Co-Chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council (WGSSC). She was the initiator and co-founder of the Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB).
Sensation of Immobility — Dailey
I want to cross over to the other track, for a moment to think about the language of law and margins so as to provide a few “crossovers” for our topics.
Derrida
Derrida was frequently interested in marginal writing, as we can see in La grammatologie, Marges de la Philosophie, or, of course, the infinitely labyrinthine Glas. None of these interventions can be read devoid of their physical, material aspect.
