Conall Cash
At StFX I teach courses on children’s literature and film, and on literature of the city and modernity. I’ve also taught courses in the Modern Languages department on French literature and film, as well as French language at all levels. I completed my PhD at Cornell University in 2022, and first came to StFX in 2023 as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. In my research I’m particularly interested in Anglophone and Francophone modernisms; philosophies of subjectivity and history (Hegel, Marx, Merleau-Ponty); literature and philosophy; critical and psychoanalytic theory; cinema after 1968; television studies.
Research Interests: Modernist Fiction; Film and Television Studies; Film Theory and Film-Philosophy; Continental Philosophy; Social and Political Theory
Books
Far From The Masters: Experimentations in Post-New Wave French Cinema. IndexPress, 2025. Edited by Conall Cash and Corey Cribb.
Journal Issues
The Thought of the Novel: On Timothy Bewes’ Free Indirect. b2o: boundary 2 online, October 2026. Edited by Conall Cash and Michael D’Arcy.
Articles
“The Alterity of Thought and the Thought of Alterity: Negativity, Experience, Relationality.” Forthcoming in b2o, October 2026.
“Mastery and Genericity: Marx, Badiou, Beckett.” New Literary History 56.1 (July 2025): 1-20.
“The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema.” Film-Philosophy 29.1 (February 2025): 169-198.
“The Mortal Subject of Radical Reflection: Self-Consciousness, Sociality, and Politics in Merleau-Ponty.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 29.6 (December 2024): 3-18.
“Modernism and Identity: The Subject of Madame Bovary.” MLN (Modern Language Notes) 136/4 (Fall 2021): 827-853.
Book Chapters
“Making (The Desire For) Power Explicit: The Fate of the University amid the Resurgence of Mastery.” In University of Lacan? ed. Clint Burnham and Paul Kingsbury. Forthcoming 2027, Routledge.
“An Ethics of Acknowledgement: The Transgression of Identity and the Singularity of the World in La fille inconnue.” In ReFocus: The Films of the Dardenne Brothers, ed. Jamie Steele. Forthcoming 2026, Edinburgh University Press.
“Introduction.” (Co-authored with Corey Cribb.) In Far From The Masters: Experimentations in Post-New Wave French Cinema, ed. Conall Cash and Corey Cribb. 2025, IndexPress.
“No Messing With Love: Maurice Pialat’s A nos amours.” In Far From The Masters.
"The Mystery of The French Inhaler.” In Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom, ed. John Mackinnon. Carus Books, 2023, 53–60.
