Ph.D.'s since 1987
Rebecca Handler-Spitz
DISSERTATION: "Diversity, Deception, and Discernment in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Comparative Study of Li Zhi’s Book to Burn and Montaigne’s Essays" (2009)
POSITION: Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in Classics at Brown University's Cogut Center for the Humanities (beginning fall 2009)
Jeffrey A. Rufo
DISSERTATION: “Channel Crossings: Representing French Politics in the Historical Drama of England, 1587–1610” (2009)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, Texas (beginning fall 2009)
Wing Sze Leung
DISSERTATION: "Aesthetic Feeling, Moral Judgement and Poetic Language: Kant's
and Wordsworth's Responses to Rousseau" (2008)
POSITION: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Fordham University
Andrea Scott
DISSERTATION: "Lyric Diplomacy: Cold War Poetics in the United States and West Germany, 1945-1955" (2008)
POSITION: Postdoctoral Lecturer, Princeton University
Karen A. Pagani
DISSERTATION: "Forgiveness in the Age of Reason: Fénelon, Voltaire, Rousseau and Staël" (2008)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of French Literature in the Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin
Kimberly Lewis
DISSERTATION: "Versions of Engagement: A Journal, the Novel, and Postwar Italy and France" (2007)
POSITION: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the IHUM program (Introduction to the Humanities) at Stanford University (beginning fall 2009)
Jeanne Britton
DISSERTATION: "Sympathy and the Novel: Shared Sentiment in Britain and France, 1750-1850 " (2007)
POSITION: Syracuse University, Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (2007-present): first-year courses on Monstrosity in European Lit and Film, Emotions in 19c Lit, upper-level English courses on approaches to the novel and sympathy in literature, philosophy, and science
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: “Novelistic Sympathy in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” Studies in Romanticism 48 (Spring 2009): 3-22; “Translating Sympathy by the Letter: Henry Mackenzie, Sophie de Condorcet, and Adam Smith” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.1 (Fall 2009): 71-98
Robert Huddleston
DISSERTATION: "Radicals and Realists: British Poetry from Auden to Heaney" (2006)
POSITION: Writing Program at the Gallatin School at NYU (beginning fall 2009)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: poems and translations in Chicago Review 54.3 (Spring 2009); Podium and New Mexico Poetry Review (forthcoming)
Marat Grinberg
DISSERTATION: "Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky" (2006)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College
Robyn L. Schiffman
DISSERTATION: "Werther and the End of Epistolarity, 1774-1824" (2006)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of English, Department of Literature, Language, Writing, and Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: “Werther and the Epistolary Novel.” European Romantic Review 19.4 (October 2008): 421-438; "Review Essay: Psychological Criticism on Dickens, 1982-2001." Dickens Studies Annual 33 (2003): 351-65; "Wax-Work, Clock-Work, and Puppet-Shews: Bleak House and the Uncanny."Dickens Studies Annual 30 (2001): 159-71.
Robert Kendrick
DISSERTATION: "Ancient Epics, Renaissance Translations" (2005)
POSITION: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English. at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota (beginning fall 2009)
Tanya Fernando
DISSERTATION: "Shock: Modernist Scenes of Encounter" (2005)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "The Distance from 'Primitivism,'" in Third Text 2000.
James Barron
DISSERTATION: "The American Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis?"(2005)
POSITION: Faculty member of both the History and the Classics Departments and next year ('06-'07) the Grade Adviser for the Junior Class at Germantown Friends School (an independent Quaker day school for grades K-12), Philadelphia, PA.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: 1)"Zygmunt Krasinski's 'The Un-Divine Comedy': Romantic Ideology as Revolutionary Criticism." Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, 1992; 2)"Prayer, Study, and the Life of Withdrawal from the World." Dominican Monastic Search, Vol.11, 1992; 3)"Understanding Enclosure in Contemporary Society." Dominican Monastic Search, Vol. 15, 1996.
Dan Russek
DISSERTATION: "Literature and Photography in the Works of Julio Cortázar, Salvador Elizondo and Tomás Eloy Martínez" (2004)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Writing on the Walls: Exploring Julio Cortazar's Textual Cities," in Proceedings of the New Cities New Media Conference (University of Southern California: 2003); "Verbal/Visual Braids: On the Photographic Medium in the Work of Julio Cortázar," Mosaic 37 (2004); "Ekphrasis and the Contest of Representations in La Novela de Perón (1985) by Tomás Eloy Martínez," in Double Exposure: Photography and Literature in Latin America, ed. Marcy Schwartz and Mary Beth Tierney-Tello (The University of New Mexico Press: forthcoming, 2005)
Charles M. Cooney
DISSERTATION: "Transplantation and Transformation: French-American Literary Exchange from 1920-2000" (2004)
POSITION: Currently working in humanities computing, building index rich, full text searchable databases for Alexander Street Press.
Yiqun Zhou
DISSERTATION: "Kin and Companions: Gender and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece" (2004)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages, Stanford University
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Virtue and Talent: Women and Fushi in Early China." Nan Nu 5.2 (2003): 1-42; "The Hearth and the Temple: Mapping Female Religiosity in Late Imperial China, 1550-1900." Late Imperial China 24.2 (2003): 109-155.
Jochem Riesthuis
DISSERTATION: "Blacks and Exiles: African American and German Exiled Authors 1933-1952"(2004)
POSITION: Lecturer English Dept. of The Vrije Unversiteit Amsterdam; Previous position in administration at the local polytechnic in Zwolle, (Netherlands), a city founded in the 12th century
CONFERENCES: (Summer 2005) presented at the first international Anthony Burgess conference. Presented at the Joseph Conrad society's panel for the MLA Dec 2005.
Sharlyn Rhee
DISSERTATION: "Nation, Post-War Identity, and Poetics in Ingebor Bachman and Hwang Chiu" (2003)
POSITION: Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Syrimis
DISSERTATION: "Through a 'Futuristic' Lens: Aesthetics of Technology and Film in the Works of Gabriele D'Annunzio and F.T. Marinetti, 1909-1920" (2003)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Tulane University
Rosana Kohl Bines
DISSERTATION: "Post-Shoah Identity Between Languages" (2001)
POSITION: Adjunct Professor, Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Literature and Language Department (August 2005 - August 2006 - renewable every year). February 2006 hired as researcher at the Cátedra Unesco de Leitura/PUC-Rio (Unesco Chair on reading/PUC-Rio), a pioneer project in Latin America for disseminating reading practices through the creation of a web site with on-line service for readers.
RESEARCH PROJECT: For the past two years, developed a comparative literature research project that examines testimonial writings by Holocaust survivors vis-v-vis Brazilian literature related to the experience of dictatorship (torture, prison, exile, death). The research was conducted at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) SELECT PUBLICATIONS:1) "Cotejando a dor: narrativas da barbarie" (Contrasting the Pain: Narratives of Barbarism) in Literatura e Comparativismo. Ana Lucia de Souza Henriques (Ed.) Rio de Janeiro: Eduerj, 2005. 2) "O Golem Revisitado" (The Golem revisited) in Revista 18. Centro da Cultura Judaica. Year III, Number 10, Dez/Jan/Feb, 2005. 3) "A prosa desbocada do ilustre escritor estrangeiro" (The Distinguished Foreign Writer's Cursing Language) in Experiencia cultural judaica no Brasil: recepcao, inclusao e ambivalencia. Monica Grin and Nelson Vieira (Eds.), Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2004.
Joshua Phillips
DISSERTATION: "Properties of the Mind: Prose Fiction and Intellectual Property in Sixteenth-Century England" (2001)
POSITION: Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Memphis
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Th'Intertraffique of the Minde": Publishing John Florio's Translation of the Essais," Montaigne Studies 11 (1999).
Daniel H. Foster
DISSERTATION: "The Hellenization of Politics: Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks" (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theater Studies, Duke University
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Performance Communities: Franz Schubert's Die Winterreise and the British Romantics," in Inventing the Individual: Romanticism and the Idea of Individualism (Provo: Brigham Young University, 2002), ed. Larry H. Peer, pp. 87-104; "Music Drama or Music Parody? The Operatic Chorus in Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung ," Text and Presentation 22 (2002); review of Frederic Spotts' Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival, in Qui Parle 10-1 (1998): 113-118.
Cynthia Klestinec
DISSERTATION: "Theatrical Dissections and Dancing Cadavers: Andreas Vesalius and Sixteenth-Century Anatomy's Engagement with Popular Culture" (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) tenure-track, 2002; previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2000-2001) and a lectureship at Harvard in the History and Literature concentration (2001-2002).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: published an article, "A History of Anatomy Theaters in Padua" in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, July 2004.
GRANTS: from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for travel to Venice and Padua, from the Renaissance Society of America for travel to Venice, from the NEH, a summer stipend, to support ongoing research, from the Huntington Library in Pasadena CA for research, and from the Boston Countway Library of Medicine for research.
Stefani Brooke Engelstein
DISSERTATION: "Organs of Meaning: The 'Natural' Human Body in Literature and Science of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries" (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of German, Dept. of German and Russian Studies University of Missouri, Columbia
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Reproductive Machines in E.T.A. Hoffmann," in Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe, ed. Holger Pausch and Marianne Henn (Rodopi Press, forthcoming 2003); "The Regenerative Geography of the Text in William Blake." Modern Language Studies 30.2 (Fall 2000): 61-86; "Out on a Limb: Military Medicine, Heinrich von Kleist and the Disarticulated Body." German Studies Review. 23.2 (May 2000): 225-244.
Hulya Adak
DISSERTATION: "Intersubjectivity: Halide Edib or The "Ottoman/Turkish (Woman)" as the Subject of Knowledge," (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Currently postdoc fellow in Berlin
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk and Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal," South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 102, nos. 2-3 (forthcoming Spring/Summer 2003): 511-529
Francisco Ortega
DISSERTATION: " Anxieties of Trauma: Representations of Disaster in Colonial and Contemporary Latin America. An Essay in Catastrophic Reading" (2001)
POSITION: Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: A couple of articles on colonial Latin American culture.
Nicole Elise Lassahn
DISSERTATION: "Songes...qui ne sont mie mençongier": Historical Content and Fictional Truth in Dream Poetry from the Time of the Hundred Years War (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, Loyola University, Chicago
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Literary Representations of History in Fourteenth Century England: Shared Technique and Divergent Practice in Chaucer and Langland," Essays in Medieval Studies 17 (2000): 49-64; "Verit historique et verit fictionelle dans le Voir-Dit de Guillaume de Machaut," in Comme mon coeur desire: Etudes sur Guillaume de Machaut (Paradigme Press, 2001), pp. 257-280; "French Studies: Late Medieval Literature," The Years Work in Romance and Celtic Languages and Literatures 63 (2001).
Peter Zusi
DISSERTATION: "The Present "As It Really Is": Historicism and the Theory of the Avant-Garde" (2001)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of Czech with Slovak Studies at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Tendentious Modernism: Karel Teige's Path to Functionalism." Forthcoming in Slavic Review (Winter 2009); "Toward a Genealogy of Modernism: Herder, Nietzsche, History." In Modern Language Quarterly 67.4 (December 2006): 505-525; "'Wie ein Kind ist unser Volk': Hybrid Identity and National Consciousness in Rilke's Zwei Prager Geschichten." In The German Quarterly 79.3 (Summer 2006): 329-346; "'Kein abgefallenes Blatt ohne Wirkung geblieben': Organicism and Pluralism in Herder's Metaphorics of Culture." In Sabine Groß and Gerhard Sauder, eds., Der frühe und der späte Herder: Kontinuität und/oder Korrektur (Synchron Verlag, 2007): 89-97; "The Style of the Present: Karel Teige on Constructivism and Poetism." Representations 88 (Fall 2004): 102-124; "Echoes of the Epochal: Historicism and the Realism Debate." Comparative Literature 56.3 (Summer 2004): 207-226.
Corinne Scheiner
DISSERTATION: "Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Self-Translation: Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov as Doubled Novelists" (2000)
POSITION: Maytag Associate Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Colorado College
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Collaboration and Self-Translation." In Oxford's History of Literary Translation in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2008); "Teleiopoesis as Elliptical Endeavor: The Pedagogy and Scholarship of Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature 2005 (forthcoming); "Taking Lolita for a Field Trip: Butterflies et al." "Teaching Lolita with Lepidoptera." In Approaches to Teaching Lolita, ed. Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment. New York: The Modern Language Association of America (forthcoming 2008); "In Search of the 'Real' Smurov: Doubling and Dialogic Construction of Identity in Nabokov's Sogladatay (The Eye)." In Festschrift for Lisa Crone. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007";"2005 Report on the Undergraduate Comparative Literature Curriculum." Profession (2006): 177-197";Teleiopoiesis, Telepoesis, and the Practice of Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature 57:3 (Summer 2005): 239-245; In Place of a Preface: Reading Chapter One of Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark as a Foreword to the English Translation." Proceedings of the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium 2002. 26 June 2003 http://www.nabokovmuseum.org/PDF/Scheiner.pdf; "Writing at the Crossroads: Samuel Beckett and the Case of the Bilingual Self-Translating Author." In English Literature and the "Other" Languages, ed. Marius Buning and Ton Hoenselaars. Atlanta and Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1999: 175-184.; Translation of "Une Réelle allégresse," Geneviève Chevallier. The Journal of Beckett Studies, Special Issue: Beckett in France, volume 4, number 1 (Autumn 1994).
Dawn Marlan
DISSERTATION: "The Ends of Seduction, or, Libertines, Respectable Folks, Vampires, and Harassers" (2000)
POSITION: Visiting Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon; formerly Associate Director Humanities Laboratory, University of Illinois Chicago
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: currently working on a book provisionally entitled, "The Godless Institution of Gower Street"; " The Seducer as Friend: The Disappearance of Sex as a Sign of Conquest in Les Liaisons dangereuses," PMLA 116 (200): 314-28; "Emblems of Emptiness, Smoking as a Way of Life in Jean Eustache's La Maman et la Putain " forthcoming in book on cultural history of smoking by Reaktion Press.
Marc Falkenberg
DISSERTATION: "The Poetical Uncanny. A Study of Early Modern Fantastic Fiction" (2000)
POSITION: teacher, Lincoln Park High School, Chicago, IL
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Rethinking the Uncanny in Hoffmann and Tieck (Peter Lang, 2005)
Marcos Piason Natali
DISSERTATION: "The Politics of Nostalgia: An Essay on Ways of Relating to the Past" (2000)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo, Brazil
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: A política da nostalgia: Um estudo das formas do passado (São Paulo: Nankin, 2006)
Kamilla Kinyon
DISSERTATION: "Models of Exile: Koestler, Nabokov, Kundera" (2000)
POSITION: University of Denver, Marsico writing lecturer in a new program headed by Doug Hesse (beginning fall 2006); previous position in English and American Studies, Western Michigan University
Craig J. Luchsinger
DISSERTATION: "The Decay of the Real: Oe Kenzaburo and the Reinvention of Literary Heterodoxy" (1999)
PUBLICATIONS: "A White Paper on the Impact of Project Semiotics: Implementing AceReader Software and E-books to Raise Standardized Reading Scores" (online publication at www.stepware.com)
POSITION: Teacher, Aniak High School, Alaska, giving interdisciplinary courses in Literacy and Earth Science, Numeracy and Physics, Technology, and Culinary Art; President, MindCorral Educational Ventures (consulting firm in the field of reading and high stakes testing)
Sher-Shiueh Li
DISSERTATION: "Towards a Missionary Poetics in Late Ming China: The Jesuit Appropriation of 'Greco-Roman' Lore Through the Medieval Tradition of European Exempla" (1999)
POSITION: Assoc iate Research Fellow (tenure-track), Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Nanking, Tapie City, Taiwan; Joint Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (2006-)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Exemplum and Apadana: Buddhist Influences on the Chinese Writings of Late-Ming Jesuits," Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica (2001), winner of the Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (2003); Reviewing Tawain: A Literary Chronicle, 191-2003 (2004), winner of United Daily's Books of the Year, 2004;Late Ming China and European Literature (in Chinese) (Academia Sinica Press/Linking Publishing, 2005), winner of the Academia Sinica Investigator Award (2006)
Daniel A. Burland
DISSERTATION: "Invention, Imitation and Poetic Voice in the Works of François Villon, Clément Marot and Joachim Du Bellay" (1998)
POSITION: Graduate Student in Sociology at the U of Massachusetts-Amherst (Fall 2005); previously sergeant in US. military, stationed in Afghanistan until Feb. 2004; High School French/Spanish teacher from 2004 until Fall 2005
Laura Raidonis Bates
DISSERTATION: "Shakespeare in Latvia: The Contest for Appropriation During the Nationalist Movement, 1884-1918" (1998)
POSITION: Assistant Prof. of English, Indiana State University (Terre Haute) (specialization in Children's Lit)
James George St. Andre
DISSERTATION: "History, Mystery, Myth: A Comparative Study of Narrative Strategies in The Baijia Gongan and The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (1998)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Modern translation theory and past translation practice: European translations of the Hao qiu zhuan," (In Chinese) Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 29, no. 5 (October 2000): 105-129; "Picturing Judge Bao in Ming fiction," Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 24 (2002): 43-73. Editor: Droplets (In Chinese and English) (Singapore: Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, 2002).
Hsiu-Ling Lin
DISSERTATION: "Reconceptualizing British Modernism: The Modernist Encounter with Chinese Art" (1999)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, National Taiwan Normal University
Peter Struck
DISSERTATION: "Reading Symbols: Traces of the Gods in the Ancient Greek-Speaking World" (1997)
POSITION: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Pennsylvania
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (Princeton UP, 2004).
Yaseen Noorani
DISSERTATION: "Visionary Politics: Self, Community and Colonialism in Arabic and Persian Neoclassical Poetry" (1997)
POSITION: Lecturer in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "The Lost Garden of al-Andalus: Islamic Spain and the Poetic Inversion of Colonialism", IJMES 31 (1999): 237-254; "The Rebellious Subject: Political Self-Refashioning in Arabic and Persian Poetry of the Colonial Period", Journal of Arabic Literature XXIX (1998): 1-30; "A Nation Born in Mourning: The Neoclassical Funeral Elegy in Egypt," Journal of Arabic Literature XXVIII (1997): 38-67.
David Thompson
DISSERTATION: "Criticism and the Vichy Syndrome: Charles Maurras, T.S. Eliot and the Forms of Historical Memory" (1997)
Susanne Kawatsu
DISSERTATION: "Love and Reform. Johann Christoph Gottsched and Die Deutsche Schaubuehne" (1996)
Lidia Z. Bilas
DISSERTATION: "A Bibliographic Survey of Translations in the Lincke Collection at the University of Chicago" (l994)
John Chaimov
DISSERTATION: "'A Masonic Lodge of Literature': Popular and Private Discourse in the European Reception of the French Revolution" (l994)
POSITION: Associate Prof of German, Department of Foreign Languages, Coe College, Iowa
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Hummel Figurines: Molding a Collectible Germany," Journal of Material Culture (March 2000)
COMMENTS: "I feel very lucky to have been part of the Comp Lit program. I love that the diversity of interests among my fellow students and faculty lend a mutually supportive atmosphere to the whole enterprise. That encouragement in turn gives students the green light to explore widely. . . .I currently get to teach about equal quantities of German, Anthropology, and Gender Studies, something I never would have had the nerve to do without Comp Lit's coat-of-many-colors ethos."
Peter Bornedal
DISSERTATION: "The Interpretations of Art" (l994)
POSITION: Associate Professor, American Univ. of Beirut
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: At the Beginning of Knowledge (New York, forthcoming); Speech and System (Copenhagen, 1997); The Interpretations of Art (New York: University Press of America, 1996)
Karin L. Badt
DISSERTATION; "The Ethics of the Body in American and Italian Women's Fiction: A Study of Sylvia Plath, Natalia Ginsburg, Dacia Maraini, Milena Milani"( l994)
POSITION: Associate Professor of Cinema at University of Paris VIII
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: numerous children's books; lots of talks/conference papers in France; currently working on fiction and magazine journalism
COMMENTS: "enjoyed U of C Comp Lit very much; enjoyed even more transforming that experience into a whole new discipline (cinema) in a new country and academic system. U of C was a good training field."
Lynda Hoffman-Jeep
DISSERTATION: "Feminist Intertextuality: Fiction by Contemporary Argentine and German Women Writers" (l994)
POSITION: Assistant Professor of German, Milliken University, Decatur, Illinois
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Das Giftmädchen: Von Indien bis zum Christian Dior-Parfum" ["The Poison Maiden: From India to Christian Dior Perfume"], in Schnittpunkte der Kulturen [Cultural Crossroads] (Stuttgart: Academischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1998), pp. 291-30l; (coauthored), "Frida Kahlo in 'Gringolandia': Fashioning National Identity," Woman's Art Journal 19: 8-12.
Cecile Leung [Hang King]
DISSERTATION: "The Language of the 'Other': Etienne Fourmont (l683-l745) Chinese, Hebrew, and Arabic in Pre-Enlightenment France" (l993)
POSITION: Associate Professor of French, Dept. of Modern Languages, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Etienne Fourmont (1684-1745) Oriental and Chinese Languages in Eighteenth-Century France (Louvain: Leuven University Press, 2002).
COMMENT: "In Comp. Lit. sometimes you do not know where you belong because you have no department of your own but one thing saves the situation: professors know the students well and you know you cannot get lost! I remember fondly all my professors and advisors."
Elizabeth A. Drumm
DISSERTATION: "The Comedias Barbaras of Valle-Inclán: Shifting Boundaries in Early 20th Century Drama" (l993)
POSITION: Associate Professor, Reed College, Portland
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "'... To Return to the Origin': Valle-Inclán's Comedias Bárbaras and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia," in Nuevas perspectivas sobre el 98, ed. John P. Gabriele (Madrid and Frankfurt, 1999); "Valle-Inclán's Acotador: Bridging the Gap between the Moment of Creation and the Moment of Production," Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 22, no. 3 (1997): 449-67.
Jessica S. Berman
DISSERTATION: "Narrating the Historical: Constructions of Community in the Work of Four Modern Novelists" (l993)
POSITION: Associate Professor, English and Women's Studies, University of Maryland
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Modernist fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Cambridge up 2001); Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virgina Woolf, ed. with Jane Godlamn (Pace University Press, 2001)
Aida O. Azouqa
DISSERTATION: "Sir Walter Scott and British Orientalism, l800-l825" (l993)
POSITION: Univ. of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: The Circassians in the Imperial Discourse of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy, (Amman: University of Jordan, 2004).
Linda Carole Byrd
DISSERTATION: "Elena Poniatowska and the Literary Collage" (l992)
William Brittain Smith
DISSERTATION: "Heinrich Kleist: Spiderwebs Over the Abyss" (1991)
Kathleen M. Mullaney
DISSERTATION: "Rene Char and Martin Heidegger: The Anomaly of Friendship" (l992);
POSITION: Faculty Member, Shimer College, Waukegan, IL
COMMENTS: "Shimer is a four-year undergraduate liberal arts college located in Waukegan, Illinois. It has a Great Books curriculum based on the original Hutchins Plan. I teach Humanities and Social Science courses and am active in administration as well."
Daniel N. Tiffany
DISSERTATION: "Corpse and Mirror: The Crypt Aesthetic of Ezra Pound" (l990)
POSITION: Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
SELECT PUBLICATONS: Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaeasthetic of Ezra Pound (Harvard University Press, 1995); Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (University of California Press, 2000).
Michael N. Salda
DISSERTATION: "The Old French forest of Darnantes and Malory's Foreyste Perelus: A Study in Sources and Changing Forms of Narrative" (1988)
POSITION: Associate Professor of English and Chair, University of Southern Mississippi
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Arthurian Animation at Century's End," in King Arthur and Popular Culture, ed. Elizabeth S. Sklar and Donald L. Hoffman (McFarland, 2002); "When Women Learn to Write in Old French Prose Romance," in Philogies Old and New: Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski, ed. Joan Tasker Grimbert and Carol J. Chase (Edward C. Armstrong Monographs, 2001); The Malory debate: Essays on the texts of Le morte Darthur, ed. with Bonnie Wheeler and Robert L. Kindrick (D.S. Brewer, 2000); "William Faulkner's Arthurian Tale: Mayday," Arthuriana 4, no. 4 (1994 Winter): 348-75; "What Really Happens in Cather's 'Paul's Case'?" Studies in Short Fiction 29, no. 1 (1992); "Pages from History: The Medieval Palace of Westminster as a Source for The Dreamer's Chamber in the Book of the Duchess," Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 111-25; "Reconsidering Vinaver's Sources for Malory's 'Tristram'," Modern Philology 88 (1991): 373-81.
John Wesley Fawell
DISSERTATION: "'The Midmost Heart of Sorrow': Tennyson's Worship of Sorrow" (1988)
POSITION: Associate Professor of Humanities and Rhetoric, Boston University
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001); "Eric Rohmer's Oppressive Summers," The French Review 66, no. 5 (1993): 777-87; "The Total Act: A Reading of Paul Valéry's L'Ame et la danse," Dalhousie Review 72, no. 3 (1992): 368-80; other articles on film, classical literature ("Oedipus Rex"), and 19th-century English (Tennyson) and Russian (Tolstoy) literature
COMMENTS: "I have almost nothing but fond memories of University of Chicago, where, oddly enough, I got my BA (General Studies in the Humanities), MA and Ph.D.."
Andrew Parker
DISSERTATION: "Re-Marx: Deconstructive Readings in Marxist Theory and Criticism" (1987)
POSTION: Director of Studies, Dept. of English, Amherst College
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Bogeyman: Benedict Anderson's 'Derivative' Discourse," Diacritics 29, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 40-57; "Praxis and Performativity," Women & Performance 8, no. 2 (1996) 265-73; "Unthinking Sex: Marx, Engels, and the Scene of Writing," Social Text 9, no. 4 (1991): 28-45; "Grafting David Cronenberg: Monstrosity, AIDS Media, National/Sexual Difference," Stanford Humanities Review 3 (1993), rpt. in Media Spectacles, ed. Marjorie Garber and Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1993); "Politics In Theory," Public Culture 6, no. 1 (fall 1993): 133-42; "Holding the Fort! Instituting Genders, Engendering Institutionsm," Genders 1, (1988):75-82; "Between Dialectics and Deconstruction: Derrida and the Reading of Marx," in After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature, ed. Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller (U of Alabama P, 1985); "Ezra Pound and the 'Economy' of Anti-Semitism," Boundary 2 11, no. 1-2 (fall-winter 1982-1983): 103-128; "'Taking Sides' (on History): Derrida Re-Marx," Diacritics 11, no. 4 (fall 1981): 57-73. Introduction and co-translation (with John Drury and Corinne Oster), Jacques Ranciere, The Philosopher and his Poor (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004)
Joseph Pucci
DISSERTATION: "Anonymous Splendors: Essays on Allusiveness in Classical and Medieval Literature" (1987)
POSITION: Associate Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies; Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition (Yale U. Press, 1998); Medieval Latin, second ed. (U. of Chicago Press, 1997); many articles and book reviews on later and medieval Latin language and literature (and classical Latin also).
Catherine Jaffe
DISSERTATION: "The Reader in the Modern Lyric Poem: The Role of the Reader in the Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Fernando Pessoa, and W.B. Yeats" (1987)
POSITION: Spanish Professor, Southwest Texas State University
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Excavations: History and the Woman Reader in the Work of Carmen Martìn Gaite." Cuento de nunca acabar/Never-Ending Story, ed. Kathleen Glenn and Lissette Rolon-Collazo (Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2002); "From Les Précieuses ridicules to Las preciosas ridiculas: Ramón de la Cruz's Translation of Molière and the Problems of Cultural Adaptation," Dieciocho 24.1 (Spring 2001): 1-22; "Suspect Pleasure: Writing the Woman Reader in Eighteenth-Century Spain." Dieciocho 22.1 (Spring 1999): 35-59; "Patterns of Fiction and Desire: Childhood Reading in Carmen Martìn Gaite's Retahìlas," MLN 112 (1997): 182-200; "Figuring Modernity: Juan Ramón Jiménez and the Baudelairian Tradition of the Prose Poem" (co-author with Jennifer Forrest), Comparative Literature 48.3 (Summer 1996): 265-93; "Intertextuality and Intersubjectivity in Juan Ramón Jiménez's Espaciom," Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America (Boulder: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991); "Lyric Reading: Woman and Juan Ramón Jiménez." Hispania 73.3 (Sept. 1990): 593-604.
Tim Redman
DISSERTATION: "Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism" (1987)
POSITION: Professor of Literary Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
SELECT PUBLICATIONS: " Opere recenti su Pound economista: Accame, Marsh, e Surette," in Ezra Pound e l'economia, ed. Luca Gallesi (Milano: Edizioni Ares, 2002); "Pound's Politics and Economics" in The Cambridge Companion to Pound (1999); "Pound's Debt to Dante", in Dante e Pound, ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone (Ravenna : Longo, 1998); "Ezra Pound al Wabash College", in Ezra Pound Educatore, ed. Luca Gallesi (Milan: Terzaria, 1997); Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism (New York: Cambridge UP, 1991)