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Francois-Xavier P. Gleyzon

Associate Professor of English | Director, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Minor, University of Central Florida | Series Editor, Anthem Press Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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Invited Talks & Conference Presentations

  1. "Walter Benjamin, Christian Bobin, and the Hand as Creative Act." Invited seminar presentation, Prof. Jean-Louis Claret's Seminar in Early Modern Criticism, Aix-Marseille University (via Zoom), March 25, 2026. INVITED
  2. "Introduction and Response to Zahi Zalloua, 'Violence, Resistance, and Disruption in Fanon and Žižek.'" Department of English 2026 Annual Symposium, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, March 2026.
  3. "Transversal Perspectives, Critical Gestures, and Emerging Literary-Critical Forms." University of Paris-Nanterre, December 1, 2023.
  4. "Shakespeare's Lost Highways." University of Jordan, Jordan, May 23, 2023. INVITED
  5. "Hos-ti-pitality or the Chance of the Wavering." University of Toulouse, France, May 21, 2023. INVITED
  6. "New Literary Geographies: Deleuze & Alameddine." Effat University, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2022. KEYNOTE
  7. "Shakespeare and the Collège de Sociologie: Caillois & Bataille." Kingston University, London, April 9, 2022. INVITED
  8. "SadomasoChrist: Voltaire, Diderot & Hume." University of Central Florida, English Symposium, March 26, 2022.
  9. "Caliban or the Last of the Palestinians." Bethlehem University, Palestine, June 23, 2019. KEYNOTE
  10. "Writing with Shakespeare." University of Balamand, Lebanon, March 26, 2018. INVITED
  11. "Shakespeare's Globe and Global Interactions." University of Split, Croatia, November 26, 2016. KEYNOTE
  12. "Reading Milton through Islam." United Arab Emirates University, October 18, 2016. KEYNOTE
  13. "Figures of Interreligious Dialogue." Université Saint Joseph, UNESCO Research Center, Beirut, March 13, 2015. KEYNOTE
  14. "Prophetic Milton." American University of Beirut, November 26, 2014.
  15. "Typology of Exception in Renaissance Thought." American University of Beirut, November 24, 2014.
  16. "Sacrifice, Mystery, Incision in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." John Cabot University, Rome, September 16, 2014. KEYNOTE
  17. "Writing back in King Lear: Lines, Lineage, and Lineature." Qatar University, May 12–14, 2014.
  18. "Holistic Typology: Milton and Surat Mariam." Reading Milton through Islam Conference, American University of Beirut, May 10, 2014.
  19. "The Host in Shakespearean Tragedy." Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, December 6, 2013. INVITED
  20. "Desecrating the Host: Shakespeare and Uccello." Al Akhawayn University (American University in Morocco), Ifrane, November 2, 2013. KEYNOTE
  21. "Visualizing Milton in The Nativity Ode – the Power of Assertion/Insertion." Qatar University, May 14, 2013.
  22. "Opening the Sacred Body or the Profaned Host in The Merchant of Venice." Qatar University, May 14, 2013.
  23. "This is my Body, This is my Blood: Thus Spake Terror." Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, CA, April 5, 2013.
  24. "Manufactured Outrage." Shooting the Event Conference, University of Central Florida, February 26, 2013.
  25. "Re-membering/Dis-membering the Eucharist in Shakespeare's Oriental plays." Terrorism and the Literary Imagination, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 7, 2012.
  26. "The Barred Subject in King Lear: King Lear – Queen Real." University of Central Florida, April 21, 2012.
  27. "Christine Buci-Glucksmann: Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Shadows." Saint Joseph University, Beirut, April 4, 2012.
  28. "Mapping Political Theology in The Merchant of Venice and Richard II." The Orient Institute, Beirut, September 9, 2011.
  29. "Shakespeare and the Orient: Local Shakespeare/Global Terror." American University of Beirut, May 4–6, 2011.
  30. "The Renascent Spiral." Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, March 2011.
  31. "The Origyne of Political Theology." California State University, Bakersfield, CA, January 26, 2010. KEYNOTE
  32. "Power, Resistance and Maternal Discourse in Richard II." Wake Forest University, NC, January 29, 2009.
  33. "Shakespeare or (d)escribing the Vision/Depicting the Gaze in Shakespeare." Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, September 2008.
  34. "Efficacy of the Interval-Image." 3rd International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Claremont, CA, June 2008.
  35. "Shakespeare and Girard: Collision and Violence." University of California Riverside, June 2008.
  36. "Renaissance in-betweenness or the Iconology of the Interval in King Lear." Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society Conference, Vancouver, April 2008.
  37. "Under the Eye of Gorgô." Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, November 2007. INVITED
  38. "Representation of the Father in Shakespeare and Derrida." Cardiff University, UK, September 2007.
  39. "Apotropaic Acts in Shakespeare's Tragedies." Wooden O Symposium, Cedar City, UT, August 2007.
  40. "Within Hamlet and the Correspondence of the Arts." Lancaster University, UK, June 2004.
  41. "The Snail: An Icon in Literature and Renaissance Painting." Lancaster University, UK, November 2003.
  42. "A Shakespearean Gaze at the Snail." Sixteenth Century International Conference, Pittsburgh, 2003.
  43. "The Aesthetic of Painting within the Plays of William Shakespeare." Wooden O Symposium, Cedar City, UT, August 2002.
  44. "Poetics of the Dramatic Text: The Poetic Moment." University of Constantine, Nitra, Slovakia, June 2002.
  45. "The Concept of Reading." Open University, Manchester, UK, September 2001.