Nicola Masciandaro
Professor
English
Location: 4233 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3653
Fax: 718.951.4612
Email:
The Whim (blog)
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 2002 (Medieval Studies)
M.Phil., Yale University - 1999 (Medieval Studies)
M.A., Yale University - 1998 (Medieval Studies)
M.A., University of Connecticut - 1996 (English Literature)
B.A., University of Washington - 1992 (English Literature)
Areas of Expertise:
Medieval literature. Areas of interest: mysticism, individuation, commentary.
Books and Publications
"Kisses on the Feet of a Metalhead: Some Indices on Standing." X 1 (2022). https://www.x-n1.com/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2022
"No One Can Tell: On the Silent Glamour of Meher Baba." In Silhouettes of the Soul: Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity. Eds. Jeanine E. Viau and Otto von Busch. Bloomsbury (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"Cristina Campo - The Unforgiveables: A Translation with Commentary." Co-authored with Andrea di Serego Alighieri. Glossator 12 (2021): 165-98 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
"Following the Sigh." Bezna (Bucharest: Punch): 22-3. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
"Gloss." New Literary History 50 (2019): 441-45. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Purgatory / Sorrow." In Unsound/Undead. Ed. AUDINT (Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou). URBANOMIC.
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Building Climbing Thinking." In Pumping Concrete: A Guide to Seattle-Area Climbing Walls. Ed. Jeff Smoot. 2nd ed. Seattle: Fourth Hill Publishing. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"Footnotes to a Question of Alienism." Alienist Magazine 2 (2018): 81-3. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
"Green Imagination." Creature/Verdure: Pinsapo Journal 2 (2018): 65-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
"Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law." In Routledge Research Handbook on Law and Theory. Ed. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
"The Sweetness (of the Law)." Law and the Senses: Taste. Eds. Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. Westminster: Westminster University Press, 2018. 49-88. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
On the Darkness of the Will. Milan: Mimesis. 2018 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2018
"Everything Is Your Fault." Philosophical Salon. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
"Firebox." In Black Hyperbox. Eds. Alina Popa and Florin Flueras. Bucharest: Punch, 2017. 196-210. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
"Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing - Part II: Spinning." Cyclops 2 (2017): 83-106. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
"Miracle of the Sigh," "On the Gaze," and "Lines on Beauty." In Dante | Hafiz: Readings on the Sigh, the Gaze, and Beauty. Eds. Nicola Masciandaro & Oyku Tekten. New York: KAF. 1-8, 58-63, 176-9. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
Franco Masciandaro & Peter Booth. Dante | Hafiz: Readings on the Sigh, the Gaze, and Beauty. Eds. Nicola Masciandaro & Oyku Tekten. New York: Kaf. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2017
"Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation." Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute. Eds. Joshua Ramey and Matthew Harr Farris. Rowman and Littlefield. 269-79 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
"Image Speed Intelligence." In For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on Algorithmic Epistemology. Ed. Mohammad Salemy. New Centre. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing." Cyclops Journal 1 (2016): 28-42. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"Nearly Mad for Sorrow: On Time, the Demon, and Being (at One's Wits' End) in the Cloud of Unknowing." Numéro Cinq (December). (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"Nietzsche's Amor Fati: Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit." In The Digital Dionysius: Nietzsche & the Network-Centric Condition. Eds. Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy. New York: Punctum. 133-44. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
"Thrilling Divine Romance." Ich bin ein Junge. Issue 6 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
"To Become Purposeless: A Failure." In Phono-Fictions and Other Felt Thoughts: Catalyst: Eldritch Priest. Ed. David Cecchetto. Noxious Sector Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
"Never Born, Never Die: Individuation, Mutation and Mystical Birth, via Gebser's Ever-Present Origin." Diaphany. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
"Theoria e praxis del Black Metal." Interview with Fabio Selvafiorita. L'Intellettuale Dissidente. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
"Wings Flock to My Crypt, I Fly to My Throne: On Inquisition's Esoteric Floating Tomb." Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium. London: Schism. 367-82. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Masciandaro, Nicola and Alina Popa. "Dark Wounds of Light." Vestiges_00: Ex-Stasis. Black Sun Lit. 173-91. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
Masciandaro, Nicola and Edia Connole. "On 'Heroes/Helden'." Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium. London: Schism. 1-52. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Masciandaro, Nicola and Edia Connole. Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory. Milan: Mimesis International. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
Masciandaro, Nicola and Edia Connole. Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium. London: Schism. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2015
"Decapitating Cinema." And They Were Two in One and One in Two. Eds. Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. London: SCHISM. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
"Edia Connole Interviews Nicola Masciandaro." Queen Mob's Teahouse. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Going Through Withdrawal -- ''What It Is Is Negated In It'." Gobbet Mag. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"I Am Not Supposed to Be Here: Birth and Mystical Detection." Black Sun Lit. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
"Paradisical Pessimism: On the Crucifixion Darkness and the Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow." Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 23: 183-212. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"WormSign." Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology. Ed. Scott Wilson. London: Zero Books. 81-101. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
And They Were Two in One and One in Two. Eds. Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. London: Schism Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2014
Sufficient Unto the Day: Sermones Contra Solicitudinem. Schism Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2014
Connole, Edia, Paul J. Ennis and Nicola Masciandaro. True Detection. London: Schism. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2014
"Obiectum: Closing Remarks." Speculative Medievalisms. Ed. Petropunk Collective. Brooklyn, N.Y.: punctum. 261-70. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Per Speculum in Aenigmate: Response to Eugene Thacker." Speculative Medievalisms. Ed. Petropunk Collective. Brooklyn, N.Y.: punctum. 39-44. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe." Dark Nights of the Universe. Miami: [NAME], 45-87. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"The Sweetness (of the Law)." Non Liquet: The Westminster Online Working Papers Series, Law and the Senses Series: The Taste Issue: 40-60. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Masciandaro, Nicola, Ed. Petropunk Collective. Speculative Medievalisms. Brooklyn, N.Y.: punctum books. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013
"Black Metal Theory" [interview, by Dominik Irtenkauf]. Avantgarde Metal. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness." Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium. Eds. Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker. Brooklyn, N.Y.: punctum books. 179-89. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Grave Levitation." LOVEEEE journal. Live Arts Week. Bologna, Italy. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"Half Dead: Parsing Cecilia." Dark Chaucer. Eds. Eileen Joy, Nicola Masciandaro and Myra Seaman. New York: punctum. 69-88. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Mysticism or Mystification?: Against Subject-Creationism." English Language Notes 50.1. 253-58. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"Paradise Now." The Passive Collective 2. ISBN: 978-0-9879289-0-0. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"Reflections From the Intoxological Crucible." Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness. London: Black Dog Publishing. 72-75. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
"The Severed Hand: Commentary and Ecstasy." English Language Notes 50.2. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"What Is This That Stands Before Me?: Metal as Deixis." Reflections in the Metal Void. Ed. Niall Scott. Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
'Comments on Eugene Thacker's 'Cosmic Pessimism.'" Continent. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Masciandaro, Nicola, Ed Keller and Eugene Thacker. Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium. Brooklyn, N.Y.: punctum books. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2012
"An Interview With Nicola Masciandaro, by David Hoenigman." Word Riot. December. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Come Cosa Che Cada: Habit and Cataclysm, or, Exploding Plasticity.: French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures. Ed. Alexander R. Galloway. New York: TPSNY. 24-31. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Getting Anagogic." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 21. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Metal Studies and the Scission of the Word." Journal for Cultural Research 15: 247-53. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible." Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in Medieval Literature and Culture. Eds. Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 15-36. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Theoretical Animals, by Gary J. Shipley." Word Riot, October. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011
"Unknowing Animals."Speculations 2. 228-44. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
"Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralya." Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium 1. Ed. Nicola Masciandaro. 67-92. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Becoming Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy." Collapse VI: Geo/Philosophy: 20-56. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"Comments on Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal's Ghazals at Twilight." The Ghazal Page. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010
"Conjuring the Phantasm." Review of The Signature of All Things: On Method, by Giorgio Agamben (Zone, 2009). Theory & Event 13. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Consciousness, Individuality, Mortality: Basic Thoughts About Work and the Animal/Human Boundary." Cultural Logic. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"Falling Out of Language With Animals." Whiskey & Fox 4: 22-27. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"Individuation: This Stupidity." Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 1: 124-31. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
"The Sorrow of Being." Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 19: 9-35. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium 1. n.p. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola and Anna Klosowska. "Between Angela and Actaeon: Dislocation." L'Esprit Créateur 50: 91-105. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola, Kristen Alvanson and Scott Wilson. "dESIRE Gloss: A Specimen." Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 3: 95-125. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
"Black Sabbath's 'Black Sabbath': A Gloss on Heavy Metal's Originary Song." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"Eros as Cosmic Sorrow: Locating the Limits of Difference in Julian of Norwich and The Cloud of Unknowing." Mystics Quarterly 35: 59-103. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
"The One With a Hand: An Essay on Embodiment, Labor, and Alienation." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 19. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Masciandaro, Nicola and Anna Klosowska. "Beyond the Sphere: A Dialogic Commentary on the Ultimate Sonetto of Dante's Vita Nuova." Glossator 1: 47-80. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Review of Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Eds. Gordan McMullan and David Matthews. Renaissance Quarterly 61: 1018-20. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2008
"Animal Beauty." Fiction International 40 (2007): 126-7. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2007
The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2006
Creative Work
"Excerpt, imperatives/infinitives 1-164, from Spheresy 1693." Co-authored with Alina Popa. SLUG #23. 2020
"Façade to the Void: Mountain, Horizon, Sea." Black Sun Lit. Berl's Poetry Shop. Brooklyn, NY. October 20. 2019
"Yo Rezo a Ti." Text installation at Residencia Lugar A Dudas. Cali, Colombia. 2019
SACER. London: Schism. 176pp. 2017
"Finding Yourself Atop the Asymmetrical Spiral of Mystical Death." Dead End. Clonlea Studios. Dublin, Ireland. October 31, 2015. Video screening. 2015
"Ocean Seeping Eyes." KAF Reading Series. New York, March 6. 2015
"The Berithic Wanderer: Daemonus Monsmoranciensis." Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology. Eds. Connole and Shipley. London: Schism. 309-14. 2015
Ocean Seeping Eyes. New York: n.p. [23 pseudo-ghazals]. 2015
Voice recording. Above the Weather. Directed by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research. Film. 2015
"Astonished by Christina." Plinth 1. 2014
"Poison Egg." Text-exhibition for Orbitecture I & II. Head Gallery (New York) and Focal Point Gallery (London). Spring. 2011
Event of Oneself [52 ghazals]. 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Waiting to Wait, or, Reading in Line for the Guillotine." LAMEM Colloquium. Brooklyn College, CUNY. February 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2021
"Appalling Melodrama." 3-day seminar. La Casa Obeso Mejía, Museo La Tertulia. Cali, Colombia. April 22-24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"It's All Rotten: A Seminar on Pleasure." Escuela Incierta. Lugar a Dudas. Cali, Colombia. August 5-8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Fire & Iron: On Mystical Becoming-and the Question of Culture." Seminar. Escuela Incierta. Lugar a Dudas. Cali, Colombia. July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Inner Life | Inner Death: On the Sonic Threshold of the Sacred." Academy of the Sacred. Haperende Mens Festival 2018: Spider, Spit, and Broken Bells: Traces of the Sacred. Rotterdam, January 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Marvelous Harmony: On Christina the Astonishing - Part III: Sounding." Tuning Speculation VI: Auscultations | Occultations, Listening to the Occult. Bloomington, Indiana. 2-4 November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Cinema, Decapitation, and the Sacred." Cinemysticism. Filmhuis Cavia. Amsterdam, June 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"drØwn yØurself in this Øcean of lØve." Ephemeropterae. Vienna, June 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Hideous Vociferations: On Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness and the Sound of Time." 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tempe, Arizona, November 9-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"The Eye of Mysticism." Cinemysticism. MixTree - OT301. Amsterdam, June 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"The Whim of Reality: On the Question of Will." Question of Will. Bratislava, March 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"Because It's Not There: Climbing and the Cameral I." Climbing: From Bios to Zoe and Beyond. New York University. New York. November 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Notes and Quotes on the Gaze." Dante/Hafiz II: The Gaze. CUNY Graduate Center. New York City, October 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"Synaesthesia: The Mystical Sense of Law." Tuning Speculation IV. Arraymusic. Toronto, November 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"To Become Purposeless: A Failure." Tuning Speculation: 'Maginary Magnitudes and Sonic Refractions. Department of Performance Studies. New York University. April 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
"Of a leden hewe: Darkness, Labor, and Impotentiality in Chaucer." Pomona College. 26 October 2015. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"The Impossible Is Inevitable." Segue Reading Series. Segue Foundation. Zinc Bar. New York, Feb. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Thrilling Divine Romance." Tuning Speculation III. Toronto. 22 November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"A Matter of Sorrow I: The Trouble With Not Being Born." Congress of Pessimism. Bureau of Melodramatic Research. Tranzit. Bucharest, Romania, April 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"A Matter of Sorrow II: Following the Sigh." Congress of Pessimism. Bureau of Melodramatic Research. Tranzit. Bucharest, Romania, April 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"I Am Not Supposed to Be Here: Birth and Mystical Circumspection." True Detection Symposium. Generator Bar. Dublin, April 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2014
"Mystical Auscultation." Tuning Speculation II: Auralneirics and Imaginary Networked Futures. Toronto, Nov. 7-9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Never Born . . . Never Die: Individuation, Mutation, and Mystical Birth" keynote lecture. Crisis & Mutation: Forty-fourth Annual Conference of the International Jean Gebser Society. New York, Oct. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Silence: A Darkness to Ward Off All Spells." A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness: Live II. Darklight Festival. Dublin, April 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Amor Fati: A Prosthetic Gloss." Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks, 4th Annual Nietzsche Workshop. Center for Transformative Media at Parsons, The New School for Design, April 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Paradiscial Pessimism: On the Crucifixion Darkness and the Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow." Cosmic Affect Symposium. University of California at Berkeley. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Absolute Secrecy: On the Infinity of Individuation." Thinking the Absolute: Speculation, Philosophy, and the End of Religion. Liverpool Hope University. Liverpool, U.K., June 29-July 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Mystical Sorrow, or, You Are a Weeping Stone." Drew University. Madison, N.J., March 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe." Recess Gallery. New York, April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
"Spontaneous Acts of Scholarly Combustion." The Past Has Arrived: The Digital Middle Ages and Renaissance. New York University. New York, April 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Discussant. Panel discussion on para-academic publishing. Observatory. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
Video-conference interview. Post-Space Conference at the Elsewhere Collaborative. Obscura Day. Greensboro, N.C., April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2012
"Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness." Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium. The New School. New York, March 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Ni wood for sorow: On (the Necessity of) Being at One's Wits' End in The Cloud of Unknowing." 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"On Commentary." Para-Academia & Theory-Fiction. The Public School New York. Observatory. Brooklyn, N.Y., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"On the Mystical Love of Black Metal." P.E.S.T. (Philial Epidemic Strategy Tryst) - Black Metal Theory Symposium. Dublin, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Paradise Now: The Heresy of the Present." Observatory. Brooklyn, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Per Speculum in Aenigmate." Response to Eugene Thacker, "Divine Darkness." Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier. King's College. London, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Questioning Animals." English Department Works-in-Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
"Wormsign." Melancology: Black Metal Theory Symposium II. The Fighting Cocks. London, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011
Masciandaro, Nicola and Clodagh Emoe. "Black Metal/Mysticism/Anarchism." National College of Art and Design. Dublin, Nov. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Beyond the Sphere: Getting Lost With Dante." Observatory. Brooklyn, N.Y., November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Come cosa che cada: Habit and Cataclysm." After the End: Medieval Studies, the Humanities and the Post-Catastrope: 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group. University of Texas, Austin. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Decapitating Cinema." And They Were Two in One and One in Two: Talking Beheading. The New School. New York, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
"Unknowing Animals." Animals and Humans in the Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Twenty-Second Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference. Barnard College. New York, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Urania, or Astral Theses on Deep Bewilderment." After the End: Medieval Studies, the Humanities and the Post-Catastrope: 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group. University of Texas, Austin. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya." Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium. Public Assembly. Brooklyn, N.Y., December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Becoming Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy." Miami University. Oxford, Ohio, Feb. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Grave Levitation: Being Scholarly." 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible." 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible." Medieval Club of New York. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy." Glossing a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present and Future of Commentary. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, April 9-10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009
"The Sorrow of Being." NYU English Medieval Forum. New York University. New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"The Truth of Commentary." New Directions in Medieval Scholarship Roundtable. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Moderator, "The Future of Commentary: A Roundtable With Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Avital Ronell and Jesus Rodriguez Velasco." Glossing Is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present and Future of Commentary. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, April 9-10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Falling Out of Language with Animals." Robert L. Hess Faculty Colloquium. Brooklyn College. April 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008
"Fro thens list hir not remove for nothing': The Place of Contemplative Desire." 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association: Bodies, Embodiments, Becomings. Saint Louis University. St Louis, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"The New: Poverty and Plenitude." Vernal Temporalities: Imagining the New in Literature. Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference. May 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"The One With a Hand: Belaboring the Animal/Human Boundary." Brooklyn College Faculty Day. May 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"The Sorrow of Being in The Cloud of Unknowing." 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"What Is This That Stands Before Me?: Heavy Metal as Deictic Art." Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics. Salzburg, Austria, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Labor, Language, Laughter: An Aesopian Phenomenology of the Human." 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10-13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"'This monster labour': Disfiguring Work in Barclay's Fourth Eclogue." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. San Francisco, March 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Counterfeited Churl: Animal Beauty, Human Ugliness and the Arbitrariness of Individuality." Works in Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. Dec. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006
"The Ambivalence of the Human in Late Medieval Literature." Whiting Seminar. Brooklyn College. March 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006
"The Voice of the Hammer." Wolfe Institute Humanities Colloquium. Brooklyn College. Dec. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006
"The Work of Writing: Between Self-Expression and Professionalization." Brooklyn College Works in Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. Feb. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006
"Animal Laborans in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century English Literature." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"'My feithful bisynesse': Work and Subjectivity in Fragment VIII of The Canterbury Tales." 29th International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies. Villanova University. Villanova, Pa., Sept. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Bourgeois Pacifism in Late Medieval England." 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Labor and Literature in the Middle Ages: An Uneasy Relationship." Brooklyn College Works in Progress Seminar. Brooklyn College. March 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Chaucer's Former Age and Contemporary Primitivism." Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium. Yale University. New Haven, Conn. Dec. 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
"Middle English Werk: A Cultural Keyword?" Yale Medieval Studies Colloquium. Yale University. New Haven, Conn. Jan. 31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
"Pentecost and Its Afterlife: An Introduction to the Medieval Language Miracle." Revising Genealogies: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Medieval Studies. University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Ind. Sept. 9-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999
"'It is better wroght / Than I coude haif thought': Work and Providence in the Noah Plays of Wakefield and York." 16th Annual Medieval Studies Conference. Brown University. Providence, R.I. April 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998
"Laughter in Piers Plowman." 15th Annual Medieval Studies Conference. University of Connecticut. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997
Professional Leadership
Editorial Advisory Board, Cyclops Journal, 2016-present (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Co-founder and co-director, Punctum Books, 2011-12. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Editorial advisory board, Journal for Cultural Research. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Editorial board, Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Founder and editor, Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
Community Activities
President, Medieval Club of New York. 2008
President, Medieval Club of New York. 2007
Other Professional Activities
"On the Darkness of the Will with Nicola Masciandaro." Hermitix: A Show of Philosophy. 9 September 2020. Podcast. 2020
Co-organizer with Oyku Tekten. Dante/Hafiz III: Beauty. Co-organized with KAF Collective. Quimby's Bookstore, NYC. May 27.
2017
Co-organizer with Ed Keller, André Lepecki, and Margret Grebowicz. Climbing: From Bios to Zoe and Beyond. New York University. November 11. 2016
Co-organizer with Oyku Tekten and KAF Collective. Dante/Hafiz II: The Gaze. CUNY Graduate Center. October 22. 2016
Co-organizer, Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium. St. Vitus Bar. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 25. 2015
Interlocutor with Kevin Slavin. "The House in the Sky" (art project by Sascha Pohflepp and Chris Woebken). Eyebeam. New York, Oct. 26. 2014
Masciandaro, Nicola, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Alexander Galloway, and Eugene Thacker, co-organizers. "Dark Nights of the Universe." Recess Gallery & The Public School. New York, April 26-29. 2012
Co-organizer, Speculative Medievalisms 2: An Object-Imaginarium. Sponsored by BABEL and CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Sept. 16. 2011
Co-organizer, Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier. Sponsored by BABEL, King's College and Urbanomic. King's College. London, Jan. 15. 2011
Co-organizer. P.E.S.T. (Philial Epidemic Strategy Tryst). The Pint Bar. Dublin, Nov. 20. 2011
Masciandaro, Nicola, Ed Keller and Eugene Thacker, co-organizers. Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium I. The New School. New York, March 11. 2011
Organizer, "On the Love of Commentary (In Love)," 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. 2011
Guest critic, Crypto-Form, Polytics, Noise: Taking the Post-Empire Pulse. Studio critic: Ed Keller. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Columbia University. New York. April 30. 2010
Interview, Miasma Magazine 36: 48-50. 2010
Interview. Legacy Magazine 70: 9. 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola and Anna Klosowska, co-organizers, "Post-Abysmal I: Exegesis, Ethics, Saturation." 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola and Anna Klosowska, co-organizers, "Post-Abysmal II: Optimism, Devotion, Radiance." 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola and Anna Klosowska, co-organizers. "FAULT." After the End: Medieval Studies, the Humanities and the Post-Catastrope. 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group. University of Texas, Austin. November. 2010
Masciandaro, Nicola, Ed Keller, Eugene Thacker and Evan Calder Williams, co-organizers. "And They Were Two in One and One in Two: Talking Beheading." Co-organized with The New School. December. 2010
Radio interview (with Erik Davis, Maja D'Aoust, Eugene Thacker). Expanding Mind. September. 2010
Organizer, "Glossing Is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present and Future of Commentary." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, April 9-10. 2009
Organizer, "Glosynge is a Glorious Thyng: Medieval Studies and the Future of Commentary." 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-9. 2009
Organizer, Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium. Public Assembly. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 12. 2009
Organizer, "Exploring the Animal/Human Boundary." Brooklyn College Faculty Day. May. 2008
Organizer, "Why Am I Me?: On Being Born in the Middle Ages." 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. 2008
Organizer, "New Directions in Medieval Labor." 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10-13. 2007
Organizer, "Permutations of the Pastoral." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. San Francisco, March 23. 2006
Organizer, "Animal/Human Boundaries in Renaissance Literature." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 7-9. 2005
Organizer, "Labor-Knowledge-Virtue: The Intersection of Human Powers in the Renaissance." Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. New York, April 1-4. 2004
Organizer, "The People of the Book: Islamic, Christian and Judaic Cultures in Contact During the Middle Ages." 17th Annual Medieval Studies Conference. Yale University. New Haven, Conn. April 17. 1999
