History Department Faculty
Julian Bourg
Associate Professor
Julian Bourg
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S327
Telephone: 617-552-2718
Email: julian.bourg@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Brown University
- M.A., Graduate Theological Union & The Jesuit School of Theology
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Modern European intellectual and cultural history; modern French history; the 1960s; terror and political violence; French theory
Department
Biography
Professor Bourg’s teaching and research interests include 19th- and 20th-century European intellectual history, the history of terrorism, history and film, modernism, and contemporary theory. His first book, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought, winner of the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas, and republished in a second edition in 2017, examined the revival of the theme of ethics among French intellectuals in the wake of the student and worker revolts of May 1968. Professor Bourg is currently writing a book on the conceptual histories of terror and terrorism since the 18th century. He is a past recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
“You Can’t Always Want What You Get: The Psychoanalytic Ambivalence of Michel Foucault.” In The Politics of Desire: Foucault, Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis, ed. Agustín Colombo et al. (2022)
“The Alpine Climb Between Paris and Rome.” In Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered, ed. Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (2020)
“Post-Structuralism” (co-authored with Ethan Kleinberg). In The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, ed. Peter Gordon and Warren Breckman (2019)
“Serious Harm to Bodies: Contradictions of Anti-Masculinist Violence in the 1970s.” In Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968, ed. Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher (2019)
From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2nd revised edition with new preface) (2017)
“Of Partisans and Paranoid Experts.” boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture (2017)