Faculty Publications

Because apparently people can never get enough of a good thing, a Canadian-based publication has run yet another interview with Fenwick Professor Jean-Luc Beauchard in which he waxes lyrical on everything from the art of writing to his obscure theories of literature and the novel.

In what can only be called a work so original and adventitious that its writing surprised even him, Associate Professor Beauchard produced a work on sexuality "while in a fever dream" - one, incidentally, from which we all wish he had awoken before allowing it to see the light of day.

Observant readers will likely notice a partner in titling emerging among forewords from Fenwick faculty. What to make of it, we don't know. But Researcher Jamieson de Quincey recently wrote the foreword for a book published by a Fenwick alum. Read it by buying the book, cheapskate.

Associate Professor Beauchard's work has continued to gain acclaim both within and outside the academy. (How could it not? The man singlehandedly reinvented literary theory and Plato studies). And so he was asked to sit for an interview with an admiring reader.

Fenwick Adjunct  Lecturer Jeffrey Bunrop, ABD, has been conducting interviews in order to promote the works of authors who have earned their PhDs and publish with the small independent publisher for which he works (as an unpaid editorial intern).

Fenwick Researcher Jamieson de Quincey started a substack, lost interest in it, and seems to have abandoned it entirely. Whether or not her desertion of her writing in its infancy is indicative of the work (or lack thereof) that she is doing on the book project for which she was given her role as Researcher in the first place is currently unknown.

Because of the supreme confusion caused by the incredibly subtle and charming writing in City of Man -- a book, by the way, which no reader to date has been subtle enough to interpret -- Beauchard found it necessary to publish an equally charming essay which he dubbed "the hermeneutic key with which to unlock the mystery of my other, more subtle works."

Associate Professor Beauchard was back at it in 2023 with the appearance of his second book, City of Man, the publication of which marked his transcendence into that ethereal realm of academics capable of publishing something beyond a dissertation.

Refusing to be made a fool of by his younger (and, to be candid, smarter) colleague Beauchard, Professor Emeritus Rugg (who insists that we note he was knighted by the Queen) published a short essay of his own.

After single-handedly reorienting the field of literary theory with his critically acclaimed "The Mask of Memnon," Associate Professor Beauchard offered his first piece on Plato, one which would lay the foundation for books to come . . .

Associate Professor Beauchard followed up that extraordinary book review with a book of his own, this time on the cheery little subject of life's meaninglessness.

In September of 2020, Fenwick's Associate Professor Beauchard reviewed a book on suffering and death. In hindsight, his review was timely, what with the University being caught in the death throes leading up to its closure.