Curriculum Vitae
Jack W. Stone
105 North Garth Avenue, Apt. 42, Columbia, Missouri 65203
(573) 442-5918
stonej@missouri.edu
Homepage: http://www.missouri.edu/~stonej/index.html
Educational Background
2006 M.A. in Library Science fom the University of Missouri-Columbia.
1998 Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
1994-1996 Course work toward a D.E.A. (Diplôme des Études Approfondies) in psychoanalysis at the Université de Paris VIII, École du Champs Freudien.
1990 M.A. in English literature from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
1981 B.A. in English literature from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Dissertation
"The Fantasy, Le Sinthome, and the 'Babbling Pumpt of Platinism': from Geometry, to Topology, to Joyce." Defended May, 1998. Ellie Ragland, director.
Languages
High reading and translating proficiency in French. One year of German and one year of Classical Greek at the University of Florida. Three years of German and one year of Latin in High School.
Professional Experience
2006-2007 Current Website Administrator for Re-turn: A Journal Lacanian Studies, at http://return.jls.missouri.edu/Lacan/, published by the University of Missouri-Columbia, edited by Ellie Ragland and Evelyn Moore.
1999-2000 Assistant Instructor at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri; Adjunct Instructor for Columbia College, Jefferson City.
1990-1999 Graduate and Visiting Instructor in literature and composition at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
1994-1996 Cours particulier in English (commercial, academic, etc.), Paris.
1987 Research assistant at the University of Florida (helped edit The Newsletter of the Freudian Field).
1989-1990 Substitute teacher for primary and secondary schools in Gainesville, Florida.
Publications and Submissions
Translation of Xavier Esqué's "What Substance for the Name of the Father," published by the World Association of Psychoanalysis at http://www.wapol.org/en/destacados/destacados.asp?esque-what.html, March 2005.
Translation of Pierre Scriabine's "Some Moral Failings Called Depressions," published in the online journal The Symptom, Vol. 1, Fall 2001, at http://www.lacan.com/depressionf.htm.
Translation of Gerard Wajeman's "Picture," in Critical Essays on Jacques Lacan, ed. Ellie Ragland (G. K. Hall, 1999).
"Three Times Knotted and Un-Knotted: Knots of Transference In and Between the Works of Woolf, Welty, and Mansfield," submitted to Literature and Psychology, 1999.
"Joyce's Square Wheel, Le Sinthome, and 'the Babbling Pumpt of Platinism' in Finnegans Wake." Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, vol. 4, no. 1 (May 1995).
"What is Love Good for? Notes on the Utility of the Transference," Bien Dire, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1994).
Conferences
" ' When is a Man not a Man?' : James Joyce's Asocial Sinthome and 'the Best one can Expect from Psychoanalysis at its End,' " presented at the conference on Social Symptoms, Columbia University, New York, October 1999.
"Is it Possible to Enjoy Joyce? The Beautiful, Le Sinthome, and the 'ideal Reader Suffering from the Ideal Insomnia,' " presented at he colloquium on Violence and Psychoanalytic Force, Chicago, April 1999.
"Where it Makes a Hole: Fantasy, Delirium, and Symptom in Katherine Mansfield's 'Ole Underwood,' " presented at the Missouri Lacan Colloquium, Columbia, Missouri, May 1997.
Porte de Service, presented (in French) at L'Atelier Etranger, Rond Point, Paris, March 1995.
"Le Sinthome and 'the Babbling Pumpt of Platinism,' " presented at the VIII Rencontre Internationale du Champs Freudien, Paris, July 1994.
"Three Times Knotted and Un-Knotted: Knots of Transference In and Between the Works of Woolf, Welty, and Mansfield," presented at L'Atelier Anglophone, Paris, July 1994.
"Writing, Quantity, the Ludic and the Margin of Loss in Wings of the Dove", presented at the colloquium on History and Hysteria, Columbia, Missouri, October 1991. (Essay nominated for the George Blocker Pace Award, 1991.)
