S.B.,
Literature and Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1977); B.A., Oxford (Rhodes Scholar,
1979); Ph.D., Cornell (1987).
James Eli Adams came to Columbia in 2009
from Cornell; he previously taught at
Indiana University and the University of
Rochester. He writes on a wide
range of Victorian literature and
culture, but he is best known for his
work on gender and sexuality in
Victorian literature. He is the
author of Dandies and Desert Saints:
Styles of Victorian Masculinity
(Cornell, 1995) and A History
of Victorian Literature
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), each of which
was named a Choice Outstanding
Academic Book. He co-edited, with
Andrew Miller, Sexualities in Victorian
Britain (Indiana, 1996), and
served as general editor of the
four-volume Encyclopedia of the Victorian
Era (Grolier, 2004). His
essays, articles, and reviews have
appeared in many journals and
collections, including Victorian
Studies, ELH,
Studies
in English Literature, Victorian
Poetry, Journal of
the History of Ideas, the
Blackwell Companion to Victorian
Literature and Culture, Concise
Companion to the Victorian Novel,
Contemporary
Dickens, and Muscular
Christianity: Embodying the Victorian
Age. He is a past Chair
of the Executive Committee of the MLA
Division for the Victorian Period, and a
past President of the Northeast
Victorian Studies Association.
From 1993-2000 he co-edited Victorian
Studies, where he remains a
member of the Advisory Board. He
is currently at work on a project
entitled The Uses of Inheritance:
Identity and Agency in Britain,
1789-1895.
19th- and 20th-century
American literature; media studies; theories
of gender and sexuality; disability studies;
cultural studies; theories of
transnationalism and globalization
B.A,
University of California, Berkeley (1990);
M.A., University of Michigan (1992); Ph.D.,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(1997). Professor Adams specializes in 19th-
and 20th-century literatures of the United
States and the Americas, media studies,
theories of race, gender, and sexuality,
medical humanities and disability studies.
Her most recent book is Continental
Divides: Remapping the Cultures of
North America (University of Chicago
Press, 2009). She is also the author
of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the
American Cultural Imagination (University
of Chicago Press, 2001). She is
co-editor (with David Savran) of The
Masculinity Studies Reader (Blackwell
Press, 2001) and (with Sarah Casteel) a
special issue of Comparative American
Literature on "Canada and the
Americas." She is editor of a
critical edition of Kate Chopin's The
Awakening (Fine Publications,
2002). Her articles have appeared in
journals such as American
Literature, American
Literary History, American
Quarterly,Minnesota Review, Camera
Obscura, GLQ, Signs,
Yale Journal of Criticism and Twentieth-Century
Literature. She has also
written for the Chronicle of Higher
Education and the Times of
London.
On leave Fall 2011; contact
Barnard English Dept at 4-2116
Bio
B.A.
Oberlin, in Classics and English, 1975;
Fulbright Scholar at New College Oxford
and the Warburg Institute, London
1978-80; Ph. D. Yale, in English,
1983. Professor Baswell rejoins
the faculty at Barnard and Columbia
after a period as Professor of English
and Associate Director of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
UCLA, 2001-2008. Baswell’s
earliest research was in the reception
and transformation of classical
literature, especially narratives of
empire and dynastic foundation, in the
vernacular cultures of the European
Middle Ages. He has approached
these issues through the optic of
original manuscripts, and in the light
of the multilingualism of medieval
France and England. Some of this
research resulted in Virgil in
Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid
from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer
(Cambridge UP 1995), which won the 1998
Beatrice White Prize of the English
Association. Further work on
foundation narratives has led to
articles and a forthcoming monograph on
narratives of female foundation and
their challenge to a dominant tradition
of founding fathers. Baswell is
also at work on new research on the
cultural imagination of disability in
the Middle Ages. He has held
fellowships from the NEH, the ACLS, the
National Humanities Center, and the
Institute for Advanced Study.
Baswell is co-editor of the medieval
volume of the Longman Anthology of
British Literature. He is General
Editor of the series Cursor Mundi:
Viator Studies of the Medieval and
Early Modern World (Brepols).
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
19th- and 20th-century
American literature and culture; media
studies; cultural studies; theories of
gender and sexuality; African-American
literature; modernism
B.A.
(1993) and Ph.D. (2002), Cornell
University. Katherine Biers specializes
in 19th- and 20th-century American
literature, culture and media studies.
Fields of interest also include theatre,
pragmatism, aesthetics, political theory
and theories of emotion. She is
currently writing a book on the idea of
the virtual in pre-WWI American
philosophy and media culture entitled The
Promise of the Virtual: Writing and
Media in the Progressive Era. She
has recently published an article in Representations
on James Weldon Johnson and
ragtime, and has an essay in the volume
Women’s Experience of Modernity
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
on Djuna Barnes and illustrated
journalism.
B.A.,
Williams College (1980); Ph.D., Yale
(1987). At Columbia since 1985, Prof.
Blount teaches American and African
American literary and cultural studies. He
has been a Research Fellow at the Carter
G. Woodson Institute at the University of
Virginia, a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan's
Center for Afro-American Studies, a
Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for the
Study of Black Literature and Culture at
the University of Pennsylvania, and a
Visiting Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute at Harvard University. He has
published essays in PMLA, Callaloo,
American Literary History, and Southern
Review. He co-edited Representing
Black Men with George Cunningham.
His first study is entitled "In a Broken
Tongue: Rediscovering African American
Poetry." His current project is entitled Listening
for My Name: African American Men and
the Politics of Friendship. He was
the Sterling Brown '22 Visiting Professor
of English at Williams College.
B.A.,
Williams College (1989); Ph.D., University
of California, Berkeley (1997). Sarah Cole
specializes in British literature of the
19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis
on the modernist period. Areas of interest
include war; violence, sexuality and the
body; history and memory; imperialism; and
Irish literature of the modernist period.
Her book, Modernism, Male Friendship,
and the First World War, was
published by Cambridge University Press in
2003. She has published articles in ELH,
Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity,
and PMLA, and has written essays
for a variety of edited collections. She
is currently working on a book,
forthcoming from Oxford University Press
(Modernist Literature and Culture series),
that investigates the interrelations
between violence and literature in the
modernist period.
B.A., Wisconsin;
M.A., Ph.D., Berkeley. Susan Crane
specializes in English and French
medieval literature and culture. The
consequences of the Norman conquest
for Britain's linguistic, literary,
and social history are the focus of Insular
Romance: Politics, Faith, and
Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle
English Literature (California
UP 1986) and subsequent articles on
insular bilingualism. Gender and
Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales (Princeton UP 1992) argues for
interrelations between literary genres
and ideologies of sexuality. The
Performance of Self: Ritual,
Clothing, and Identity During the
Hundred Years War (Pennsylvania
UP 2002) investigates pre-modern
identity as it is expressed in secular
rituals such as tournaments, weddings,
and mummings. Current projects explore
the purposes of translation in the
late Middle Ages, and the relations
between humans and animals in medieval
thought and practice. Susan Crane's website.
B.A. McGill
University (1990); Ph.D. University of
Pennsylvania (1999). Julie Crawford works
on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
English literature and culture. She has
written on Shakespeare, John Fletcher,
Margaret Cavendish, the Sidneys, Anne
Clifford and Lady Mary Wroth, as well as
on post-Reformation religious and literary
culture. Her articles have appeared in Studies
in English Literature, English
Literary History, Renaissance
Drama, PMLA, Early
Modern Culture, and the Blackwell
Companion to Shakespeare, as well is
in a wide range of edited collections. Her
book, Marvelous Protestantism:
Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation
England, was published by Johns
Hopkins University Press in 2005, and she
is currently completing a project about
women and the production of coterie
literature in early modern England.
B.A. Sarah
Lawrence College; Ph.D. University
of California, Irvine (2002); LMS,
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey
joined Columbia faculty in Fall 2004
after a holding a
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Northwestern
University (2002-2004). She
specializes in medieval literature
and culture (English, Dutch, French,
and Italian) and critical theory,
focusing on
women's mystical texts, visions,
Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose,
medieval rhetoric, hermeneutics, and
theology. Her book Promised Bodies:
Time, Language, and Corporeality in
Women's Mystical Texts
(forthcoming, Columbia University
Press, 2012) examines the relation
between gender, temporality, the
body, and language in medieval
mystical texts, with a focus on the
thirteenth century mystic
Hadewijch. Her next book project,
The Witness in the Text, focuses on
Anglo-Saxon literature and theology.
She is also the co-editor, with
Veerle Fraeters, of A Companion to
Hadewijch (forthcoming, Brill,
2013).Patricia Dailey has written on
Hadewijch, Julian of Norwich,
Marguerite Porete, Hildegard von
Bingen, Old English riddles, The
Letter from Alexander to Aristotle,
The Ruin, Beowulf, among others.
Recent articles include, "Responding
Wisely: Riddles, Wonder, and
Responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon
Literature," in the Cambridge
History of Early Medieval English
Literature 500-1150 (forthcoming,
2012); "Children of Promise: The
Bodies of Hadewijch of Antwerp,"
Journal of
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(Spring, 2011); "The Body and its
Senses" and "Time and Memory" in the
Cambridge Companion to Christian
Mysticism (forthcoming, 2011); and
"Questions of Dwelling in
Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval
Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape,
Body, Mind," New Medieval
Literatures (vol 8, 2006). Other
articles have appeared in Women's
Studies Quarterly , Witness Issue
(2007), Le Secret: Motif et
Moteur de la Litterature (1999),
Les Imaginaires du
Mal (2000), the PMLA's special issue
on Derrida (2005), and
Routledge's Encyclopedia of Women
and Gender in Medieval Europe: An
Encyclopedia. In addition to her
work in medieval literature, she has
translated works by Giorgio Agamben
(The Time That Remains, Stanford
2005), Jean-François Lyotard,
Antonio Negri, and Eric Alliez. She
is the founder of the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium (www.columbia.edu/cu/assc)
and co-founder of the Theory Reading
Group
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/posters/theory_reading_group.htm).
B.A. Washington University (1992);
Ph.D. Harvard (1998). Nicholas
Dames is a specialist in the novel, with
particular attention to the novel of the
nineteenth century in Britain and on the
European continent; his interests also
include novel theory, the history of
reading, and the aesthetics of prose
fiction from the seventeenth century to
the present. He is the author of Amnesiac
Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and
British Fiction, 1810-1870
(Oxford, 2001), which was awarded the
Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast
Victorian Studies Association; and The
Physiology of the Novel: Reading,
Neural Science, and the Form of
Victorian Fiction (Oxford,
2007). His articles have appeared
in The Henry James Review, Representations,
Novel, Nineteenth-Century
Literature, Narrative,
Victorian Studies, and n+1,
as well as edited volumes such as
Blackwell’s Companion to the
Victorian Novel, Oxford’s Encyclopedia
of British Literature (on “The
Novel”), Cambridge’s History of
Literary Criticism (on “Theories
of the Novel”), the Cambridge Companion
to English Novelists, and the
Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen.
He was awarded Columbia’s Presidential
Teaching Award in 2005, and in 2008 he
was named a recipient of the Gerry
Lenfest Distinguished Faculty
Award. In 2005-2006 he was a
Charles Ryskamp Fellow of the American
Council of Learned Societies. In
2009 he served as Chair of the MLA’s
Executive Division on Prose
Fiction. Along with Prof. Susan
Pedersen of the History Department, he
co-runs British
Studies at Columbia. His
current project is a history of the
chapter, from ancient prose fiction and
manuscript Bibles to the modern novel.
A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe (1993); Ph.D.,
Yale (1999). Jenny Davidson writes about
eighteenth-century literature and
culture; other interests include British
cultural and intellectual history and
the contemporary novel in English. She
is the author of three novels, Heredity
(2003), The Explosionist
(2008), and Invisible Things
(2010). Her two published academic books
are Hypocrisy and the Politics of
Politeness: Manners and Morals from
Locke to Austen (Cambridge, 2004)
and Breeding: A Partial History of
the Eighteenth Century (Columbia,
2009). She has just finished a small
book on literary style, and is currently
working on a project tentatively titled
The ABCs of the Novel. Honors
include a Lenfest Distinguished Teaching
Award (2005), a Guggenheim Fellowship
(2005-2006) and the Mark Van Doren
Teaching Award (2010).
M 4-5:30 in Hamilton 312
& by appointment: contact Angela
Darling at amd44@columbia.edu
Bio
A.B.,
Harvard (1973); Ph.D., Harvard
(1980). Professor Andrew Delbanco,
winner of the Great Teacher Award from the
Society of Columbia Graduates (2006), is
the author of Melville: His World and Work (2005),
which won the Lionel Trilling Award and
was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times
Book Award in biography. His other books
include The
Puritan Ordeal (1989), which also
won the Trilling Award, The Death of
Satan (1995), Required
Reading: Why Our American Classics
Matter Now (1997), and The Real
American Dream (1999).
Professor Delbanco's essays appear
regularly in The New York Review of Books
and other journals, on topics ranging from
American literary and religious history to
contemporary issues in higher education.
In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
named by Time Magazine as
"America's Best Social Critic." Professor
Delbanco is a trustee of the Library of
America, the Association of American
Colleges and Universities, and the Teagle
Foundation, and has served as Vice
President of PEN American Center.
Since 1995 he has held the Julian Clarence
Levi Professor Chair in the Humanities at
Columbia University. His new book on
undergraduate education will be published
by Princeton University Press in 2011, and
he is working on a book about abolitionism
and American culture that will be
published by Harvard University
Press. He directs the Center for
American Studies, and welcomes student
interest in its programs.
B.A.,
Harvard (1964); B.Phil., Oxford (1966);
Ph.D., Harvard (1970). Before Columbia,
Professor Douglas taught at Princeton from
1970-74—the first woman to teach in its
English Department. She received a
Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton
for distinguished teaching in 1974, and a
fellowship from the National Humanities
Center in 1978-79 after publishing The
Feminization of American Culture
(1977). She received an NEH and Guggenheim
fellowship for 1993-94. Her study Terrible
Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's
(Farrar, Straus, 1995) received, among
other honors, the Alfred Beveridge Award
from the American Historical Association,
the Lionel Trilling Award from Columbia
University, and the Merle Curti
Intellectual History Award from the
Organization of American Historians. She
has published numerous essays, articles
and book reviews on American culture in
papers and periodicals such as The New
York Times, The Nation and Slate,
and introductions for Little Women,
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Charlotte
Temple, Minor Characters, The
Subterraneans, Studs Lonigan,
and Word Virus: The William S.
Burroughs Reader . Prof. Douglas
teaches twentieth-century American
literature, film, music, and politics,
with an emphasis on the Cold War era,
African-American culture, and
post-colonial approaches. She is currently
at work on a book, Noir Nation: Cold
War U.S. Culture 1945-1960. In
Spring 2002, she was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences for
her work in History. In 2008, she became a
member of the New York
Academy of Historians.
B.A., Smith
(1974); Ph.D., Stanford (1980). Professor
Eden began teaching at Columbia in 1980.
She studies the history of rhetorical and
poetic theory in antiquity, including late
antiquity, and the Renaissance, within the
larger context of intellectual history and
with an emphasis on the problems of
reception. Her books include Poetic
and Legal Fiction in The Aristotelian
Tradition (Princeton,1986), Hermeneutics
and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters
in the Ancient Legacy and its Humanist
Reception (New Haven, 1997), and Friends
Hold All Things in Common: Tradition,
Intellectual Property and the 'Adages'
of Erasmus (New Haven, 2001). Her
articles appear in Journal of the
History of Ideas, Rhetorica,
Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities,
Studies in the Literary Imagination,
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook
and Traditio. Her current project
explores epistolary theory and the
construction of letter collections in
antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1981-82
she received a fellowship from the Center
for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
and in 1998-99 a Guggenheim fellowship. In
1998 she won the Great Teacher Award from
the Society of Columbia Graduates and in
2001 the Mark Van Doren Award and the
Award for Distinguished Service to the
Core Curriculum.
B.A., Yale
(1990); M.A., Columbia (1992); Ph.D.,
Columbia (1998). Professor Edwards is the
author of The Practice of Diaspora:
Literature, Translation, and the Rise of
Black Internationalism (Harvard UP,
2003), which was awarded the John Hope
Franklin Prize of the American Studies
Association, the Gilbert Chinard prize of
the Society for French Historical Studies,
and runner-up for the James Russell Lowell
Prize of the Modern Language Association.
With Robert G. O'Meally and Farah Jasmine
Griffin, he co-edited the collection Uptown
Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
(Columbia UP, 2004). He has published
essays and articles on topics including
African American literature, Francophone
literature, theories of the African
diaspora, black radical intellectuals,
cultural politics in Paris in the 1920s
and 1930s, surrealism, 20th-century
poetics, and jazz. His translations
include essays, poems, and fiction by
authors including Edouard Glissant,
Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Sony
Labou Tansi, and Monchoachi. He is
co-editor of the journal Social Text,
and serves on the editorial boards of Transition
and Callaloo. He is currently
working on two book projects: a study of
the interplay between jazz and literature
in African American culture; and a
cultural history of the jazz scene in New
York in the 1970s.
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Ecocriticism,
transnationalism, immigration, relocation,
American Indian, Asian American, African
American, and Chicana/o and Latina/o
literatures, and literature of the
Americas
B.A.,
University of California, Davis, M.A.,
California State University, Fullerton
(both in Comparative Literature), Ph.D.,
(English) University of California, Santa
Barbara. John Gamber’s research interests
in ethnic and literary studies include
ecocriticism, transnationalism,
immigration, relocation, American Indian,
Asian American, African American, and
Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures, and
literature of the Americas. He has
co-edited Transnational Asian American
Literature: Sites and Transits,
and published articles about the novels of
Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Louis Owens
(Choctaw/Cherokee), and Craig Womack
(Creek) among others in several edited
collections and journals including
PMLA and MELUS. His current book project,
entitled Positive Pollutions and
Cultural Toxins examines the role
of waste and contamination in
late-twentieth century U.S. ethnic
literatures.
B.A., University of New
Mexico (1979); M.A., University of
California, Berkeley (1989); Ph.D.,
Stanford University (1998). Michael
Golston specializes in 20th-century poetry
and poetics and modern cultural history.
He is especially interested in avant-garde
and experimental writing, and has
published articles and reviews in American
Literary History, Paideuma,
Textual Practice, and Modernism/Modernity.
He also has essays in two collections: American
Modernism Across the Arts and New
Definitions of Lyric: Theory,
Technology, and Culture. His first
book, Rhythm and Race in Modernist
Poetry and Science (Columbia
University Press), won the Louis Martz
Prize for 2007. He is currently working on
a book about allegory, surrealism, and
postmodern poetic form.
B.A.,
Cambridge (1994); Ph.D., Princeton (2000).
Erik Gray specializes in poetry,
particularly of nineteenth-century
Britain. He is the author of The
Poetry of Indifference: From the
Romantics to the Rubáiyát (Massachusetts,
2005)
and Milton and the Victorians (Cornell,
2009), as
well as the editor of Tennyson's In
Memoriam (Norton, 2004) and
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book
2(Hackett, 2006). He has also
published articles on a range of poets
including Virgil, Sidney, Donne, Milton,
Pope, Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Shelley,Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings,
and Christina Rossetti, and recently
guest-edited a special issue of Victorian
Poetry on Edward FitzGerald.
He is currently working on a book
about love poetry.
B.A.,
Harvard (1985); Ph.D.,Yale (1992).
Professor Griffin's major fields of
interest are American and African American
literature, music, history and politics.
The recipient of numerous honors and
awards for her teaching and scholarship,
in 2006-2007 Professor Griffin was a
fellow at the New York Public Library
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
She is the author of Who Set You
Flowin’: The African American Migration
Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t
Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of
Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001)
and Clawing
At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John
Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz
Collaboration Ever (Thomas Dunne,
2008). She is also the editor of Beloved
Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from
Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus
(Knopf, 1999) co-editor, with Cheryl Fish,
of Stranger
in the Village: Two Centuries of African
American Travel Writing (Beacon,
1998) and co-editor with Brent Edwards and
Robert O'Meally of Uptown
Conversations: The New Jazz Studies
(Columbia University Press, 2004).
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Twentieth and twenty-first
century Anglophone culture, with an
emphasis on modernist poetry, contemporary
British fiction, political theory, and the
visual arts.
M.A. (Hons.), Edinburgh University
(1996); M.A., Sussex University (1997);
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
(2004). Matt Hart specializes in
twentieth and twenty-first century
Anglophone culture,
with an emphasis on modernist poetry,
contemporary British fiction, political
theory, and the visual arts. His
publications include Nations of Nothing
But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism,
and
Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Oxford U.
P., 2010) and Contemporary Literature
and the State, ed. with Jim Hansen, a
Special Issue of Contemporary Literature
(Winter 2008). He is currently at
work on a new book, Extraterritorial:
Transnational Culture and the Question
of the State, which analyzes
contemporary art and fiction via the
cultural, legal, and political paradoxes
of extraterritoriality. Matt
is Associate Editor of the journal
Contemporary Literature and Founding
Co-Editor (with David James and Rebecca
L. Walkowitz) of the Columbia University
Press book series, Literature
Now. He
was recently elected Second
Vice-President of A.S.A.P.: The
Association for the Study of the Arts of
the Present. His essays have
appeared or are forthcoming in venues
such as ALH, The Cambridge
Companion to the Twentieth-Century
English Novel, JML, Literature Compass,
Modern Fiction Studies, The Oxford
History of the Novel, and Postmodern
Culture.
B. A.,
Wesleyan University (1984); Ph.D., Yale
University (1992). Professor Hartman's
major fields of interest are African
American and American literature and
cultural history, slavery, law and
literature, and performance studies. She
is on the editorial board of Callaloo.
She has been a Fulbright, Rockefeller,
Whitney Oates, and University of
California President's Fellow. She is the
author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror,
Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth
Century America (Oxford University
Press,1997) and Lose Your Mother: A
Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
(Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2007). She has
published essays on photography, film and
feminism. She is beginning a new project
on photography and ethics. Saidiya Hartman
website.
B.A./M.A.
Brown University (1970); Ph.D. Comparative
Literature, Brown University (1975).
Marianne Hirsch has a joint appointment
with the Institute for Research on Women
and Gender at Columbia and is the
Co-director of the Center for the Critical
Analysis of Social Difference. She is the
author of four books Beyond the
Single Vision: Henry James, Michel
Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981); The
Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative,
Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1989);Family
Frames: Photography, Narrative and
Postmemory (1997); and,
co-authored with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts
of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in
Jewish Memory (2010). She has
edited or co-edited nine volumes: Feminist
Readings: French Texts/American
Contexts, Special Issue of Yale French
Studies (1982); The
Voyage In: Fictions of Female
Development (1983); Conflicts
in Feminism (1991); Ecritures
de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies (1996); The
Familial
Gaze(1999); Time and the
Literary: Essays from the 1999 English
Institute (2002); Gender
and Cultural Memory (2002), a
special issue of Signs; Teaching
the Representation of the Holocaust (2004);
and Grace Paley Writing the World (2009),
a special issue of Contemporary
Women’s Writing. Her
book The Generation of
Postmemory: Gender and Visuality After
the Holocaust, and her co-edited
volume Rites of Return are
forthcoming.
Professor
Hirsch
has
been
a
Guggenheim,
ACLS,
National
Humanities
Center,
Rockefeller
Foundation,
and
Mary
Ingraham
Bunting,
Fellow.
She
served
on
the
MLA
Executive
Council
(1992-95);
the
ACLA,
Advisory
Board
(1993-97);
the
Board
of Supervisors of The English Institute
(1997-2000); and the Executive Board of
the Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature, (1998-2001). She was the
Editor of PMLA from
2003 to 2006 and is on the advisory boards
of two new journals, Memory
Studies andContemporary
Women's Writing. Marianne
Hirsch's website.
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Restoration and
eighteenth-century British literature; the
classical tradition in the eighteenth
century; eighteenth-century women's
writing and feminist theory
Ph.D., UCLA (2006). Professor Horejsi
specializes in eighteenth-century British
literature and culture. In addition to
eighteenth-century engagements with
classical (especially Roman) antiquity and
feminist approaches to eighteenth-century
literature, she is particularly interested
in the genres of epic and romance in the
long eighteenth century, including the
gothic, the oriental tale, and the popular
French heroic romances of Scudéry
and La Calprenède. Her articles
have appeared in Eighteenth-Century
Studies and Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century Theater Research. Her current project, Novel
Cleopatras, takes up the twin
figures of Dido and Cleopatra as emblems
of myth and history in the
eighteenth-century novel.
B.A. Brown (1970); M.Phil., University
of London (Marshall Fellow 1972); Ph.D.,
Yale (Danforth Fellow 1975). Professor
Howard began teaching at Syracuse in
1975, where she received the first
University-wide Wasserstrom Prize for
excellence as teacher and mentor of
graduate students; she has also received
Guggenheim, NEH, Mellon, Folger,
Huntington, and Newberry Library
Fellowships. In 2010 she gave the
Columbia University Schoff Memorial
Lectures on 'Staging History: Imagining
the Nation' on playwrights William
Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, and Caryl
Churchill. Her teaching interests
include Shakespeare, Tudor and Stuart
drama, Early Modern poetry, modern
drama, feminist and Marxist theory, and
the history of feminism. Prof. Howard is
on the editorial board ofShakespeare
Studies and Renaissance Drama.
She has published essays on Shakespeare,
Pope, Ford, Heywood, Dekker, Marston,
and Jonson, as well as on aspects of
contemporary critical theory including
new historicism, Marxism, and issues in
feminism. Her books include Shakespeare's
Art of Orchestration (1984); Shakespeare
Reproduced: The Text in History and
Ideology, edited with Marion
O'Connor (1987); The Stage and
Struggle in Early Modern England
(1994); with Phyllis Rackin, Engendering
a Nation: A Feminist Account of
Shakespeare's English Histories
(1997); Marxist Shakespeares,
edited with Scott Shershow (2000); and
four generically organized Companions to
Shakespeare, edited with Richard Dutton
(2001). She is a co-editor of The Norton
Shakespeare (2nd ed. 2007) and General
Editor of the Bedford Contextual
Editions of Shakespeare. Her most recent
book, entitled Theater of a City:
The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642
(University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007) won the Barnard Hewitt Award for
Outstanding Work in Theater History for
2008. She is currently working on a book
on the contemporary feminist dramatist
Caryl Churchill and another book on the
development of Renaissance tragedy. From
1996 to 1999 Professor Howard directed
the Institute for Research on Women and
Gender and in 1999-2000 she was as
President of the Shakespeare Association
of America. From 2004 to 2007, Howard
served as Columbia's first Vice Provost
for Diversity Initiatives, and, as a
Trustee Emerita of Brown University, she
currently serves on President Ruth
Simmons' Diversity Council. She is also
now Chair of the Department of English
and Comparative Literature, a Senator of
Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of the
Editorial Board of PMLA.
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Asian American and Asian
diasporic literature and culture; American
literature since 1900; Sinophone
literature; critical race, transnational,
and translation studies
B.A., Fudan
University, Shanghai (2000); PhD,
Northwestern (2006). Professor Jin
specializes in twentieth-century American
literature, Asian American literature,
narratology, and theories of race,
ethnicity, and (trans)nationalism.
She is also interested in Sinophone
literature and twentieth-century Chinese
literature. She has completed a book
titled Pluralist Universalism: An
Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and
Chinese Multiculturalisms, which
compares fictions of multiculturalism from
the U.S. and China in the post-Cold War
era. She has published in Contemporary
Literature, American
Quarterly, Critique (forthcoming),
and the edited collection Minority
Serial Fictions. She has
written articles in Chinese as well, and
is a Chinese co-translator of Hemingway’s
True at First Light (Yiwen,
2000). Her new project investigates
the intersections of secular magic and
cognitive theories of narrative impact.
Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature, Director
of Undergraduate Studies for the Institute
for Research on Women and Gender
Specialization:
Late medieval English prose
and poetry, medieval poetics and philosophy,
law and literature in the Middle Ages, early
autobiography, and vernacular theology
B.A, Yale
University (2001); M.A., University of
California, Berkeley (2006); Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley (2009).
Professor Johnson specializes in late
medieval English prose and poetry, medieval
poetics and philosophy, law and literature
in the Middle Ages, early autobiography, and
vernacular theology. She is finishing
a book entitled Sensible Prose and
the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics
in Fourteenth-Century England,
concerning the literary-theoretical
underpinnings of the efflorescence of prose
and verse in late fourteenth-century
England. She is also working on the
medieval law of waste. Her recent
works include an article on time and affect
in The Cloud of Unknowing is
forthcoming in the Journal for Medieval
and Early Modern Studies (Spring
2011), an essay on the logics
of trespass and contract law in Troilus
and Criseyde is forthcoming in a
collection on Chaucer Studies from Oxford
University Press (2011), and a new
edition and facing-page translation of the
14th century poem Wynnere and Wastoure,
forthcoming from Broadview Press. Two
collections of her poetry, The
Dwell (Scrambler Books)
and Her Many Feathered Bones (Achiote
Press) were published in 2009 and 2010.
B.A. Brown University (1986);
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995). Sharon
Marcus specializes in nineteenth-century
British and French literature and culture,
and has taught courses on the novel,
Victorian genres, narrative theory, Oscar
Wilde, theories of gender and sexuality,
the city in nineteenth-century literature,
and the year 1857 in England and
France. Her first book, Apartment
Stories: City and Home in
Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University
of California Press, 1999), won honorable
mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize for
best book in comparative literature.
Her second book, Between Women:
Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in
Victorian England (Princeton:
2007), won the Perkins Prize for best
study of narrative, the Albion prize for
best book on Britain after 1800, the Alan
Bray Memorial award for best book in queer
studies, a Lambda Literary award for best
book in LGBT studies, and has been
translated into Spanish. With
Stephen Best, she recently edited a
special issue of Representations on
"The Way We Read Now." She has
published articles on Trollope, Charlotte
Brontë, comparative sapphism,
same-sex domesticity in Victorian England,
Victorian fashion plates, Rosemary's
Baby, sentimentality and
cosmopolitanism in the writings of Anne
Frank and Hannah Arendt, and the theory
and practice of rape prevention, as well
as methodological essays on comparative
literature, queer studies, feminist
criticism, and Victorian studies.
The recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow
Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, and, at
Columbia, a Gerry Lenfest Distinguished
Faculty Award, she is currently writing a
book about theatrical celebrity in the
nineteenth century.
B.A.,
University of Rochester (1966); Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins (1969). At Columbia since
1981, Professor Mendelson has also taught
at Yale and Harvard. A recipient of
American Council of Learned Societies,
NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, he is
chiefly interested in 19th-and
20th-century literature, formal and social
aspects of poetry and narrative, and
biographical criticism. He is Auden's
literary executor; his book Later
Auden (1999) is a sequel to his Early
Auden (1981). His book The
Things That Matter: What Seven Classic
Novels Have to Say About the Stages of
Life was published by Pantheon in
2006. He has edited a volume of essays on
Thomas Pynchon and, with Michael Seidel, Homer
to Brecht: The European Epic and
Dramatic Traditions. He has prepared
editions of novels by Hardy, Bennett,
Meredith, Wells, and Trollope, the first
five volumes of a complete edition of
Auden, and selections of Auden's poems and
prose. His essays and reviews have
appeared in the New York Review of
Books, London Review of Books,
TLS, the New York Times Book
Review, and many other journals and
collections, and he wrote an introduction
for a new edition of Gravity's
Rainbow. He has also written about
computers, music, and the visual arts. He
was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century
English literature and culture; the
history of poetics; political theory;
the reception of St. Augustine in early
modern England; the English Reformation
and Counter-Reformation; metaphysical
wit; autobiography.
B.A. Columbia, 1994; M.Phil.
(Intellectual History and Political
Thought) Cambridge, 1996; Ph.D.
(English) Yale, 2004. Molly Murray
teaches and writes about the
non-dramatic literature of early modern
England. Her main scholarly
interests lie at the intersection of
religion, politics, and poetic form;
additional interests include
autobiography, intellectual history, and
the history of criticism. Her
articles have appeared or are
forthcoming in English Literary
History, Studies in English Literature,
Huntington Library Quarterly, and
Catholic Culture in Early Modern
England (Notre Dame,
2007). She is also a contributor
to the Blackwell Companion to
English Renaissance Literature and
Culture, and the Oxford
Guide to the Historical Reception of
St. Augustine. Her book The
Poetics of Conversion: Verse and
Change from Donne to Dryden, is
forthcoming from Cambridge University
Press. She is currently at work on
a study of literature and imprisonment
from Chaucer to
Milton.
M.A. in
Visual Anthropology and Fine Arts, Temple;
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers.
Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an
award-winning filmmaker, writer, and
scholar. She is the recipient of Ford,
Truman, Scripps Howard, Rockefeller, and
Pew fellowships as well as a Social
Science Research Council and and Andy
Warhol Foundation grants. She is the
editor of several books, including Puerto
Rican Jam: Rethinking Nationalism and
Colonialism; None of the
Above: Puerto Ricans in
the Global Era, and Sovereign
Acts. She is the author of Anatomy
of a Smile and Other Poems and Boricua
Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization
of American Culture (winner,
2004 CHOICE Award). Among
Negrón-Muntaner's films are AIDS
in the Barrio, and Brincando
el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican.
She is currently completing two
documentaries on the relationship between
the military and civilians in Guam and
Vieques, and writing a social history of
the reggaeton genre.
Negrón-Muntaner is also the founder
of Miami Light Project's Filmmakers
Workshop, and a founding board member and
past chair of NALIP, the National
Association of Latino Independent
Producers. In 2005, she was named as 1 of
"100 Most Influential Hispanics" by
Hispanic Business magazine, and in 2008,
the United Nations' Rapid Response Media
Mechanism recognized her as a “global
expert." Most recently, El Diario/La
Prensa recognized her as one of the
2010 recipients of the annual
“Distinguished Women Award.” She
directs Columbia University's Center for
the Study of Ethnicity and Race there.
B.A., Yale University (2005); Ph.D., University
of Chicago (2011). Anahid Nersessian specializes
in the literature and culture of the British
Romantic period, with an emphasis on poetry,
prose, and political philosophy. Her primary
interests include the aesthetics of realism,
radical politics and critical theory, narratives
of love, intimacy, and attachment, and the
intersection of political and literary form. Her
scholarly articles and reviews have appeared or
are forthcoming in English Literary History, Studies in
Romanticism, and European Romantic
Review, and she is currently at work on
her book, The
Political Romance, a study of love and
liberal politics in Romantic Britain and Europe. A
second project, on literary realism and ecological
catastrophe in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, is also underway. Anahid's
website: http://anahidnersessian.com
19th- and 20th-century
American literature as well as African
American literature and jazz
culture—including music, literature,
painting, film, photography, theater, and
dance
B.A.,
Stanford (1970); Ph.D., Harvard (1975).
Professor O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, and founder and former
director of the Center for Jazz Studies.
His major interests are American
literature, music, and painting. He has
written extensively on Ralph Ellison,
including The Craft of Ralph Ellison
(Harvard, 1980), and a collection of
papers for which he served as editor, New
Essays on Invisible Man (Cambridge,
1989). Professor O'Meally has written a
biography of Billie Holiday entitled Lady
Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
(Little, Brown, 1989) and a documentary on
Holiday (which has been shown on public
TV). He also is the author of The Jazz
Singers (Smithsonian, 1997) and
principal writer of the monograph, Seeing
Jazz (Smithsonian, 1997). He edited
Tales of the Congaree (University
of North Carolina, 1990), and The Jazz
Cadence of American Culture
(Columbia, 1998); and co-edited History
and Memory in African American Culture
(Oxford, 1994), the Norton Anthology
of African American Literature, and
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz
Studies (Columbia, 2003). His
production of the recording The Jazz
Singers was nominated for a Grammy
Award. His Holiday book and his liner
notes for Louis Armstrong and Duke
Ellington collections won Ralph Gleason
Awards. O'Meally's new book is Romare
Bearden: Black Odyssey--A Search for
Home, catalogue for a show opening
this fall at D.C. Moore Gallery on Fifth
Avenue. His new project is a full study of
Bearden's uses of literary subjects.
H.
Gordon Garbedian Professor of English
and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Comparative
drama
and
performance,
Renaissance
through
20th
cen;
literary
and
cultural
dimensions
of
law
and
human
rights;
history
of
visual
culture;
film
and
media theory
Professor
Peters
has
two
primary
areas
of
interest:
comparative
drama
and
performance
from
the
Renaissance
through
the
twentieth
century;
and
the
literary
and
cultural dimensions of the law. She has
taught courses on drama, theatre, and
visual culture generally (ranging
between the Renaissance and the
twentieth century, and across Europe,
Africa, and the Americas), as well as on
concepts of text and performance,
theories of drama and theatre, the
history of film and media, and law and
culture. She has served as
Co-Chair of the Theatre Ph.D. Program,
Associate Chair of the English
Department, Founding Director of the
Columbia College Human Rights Program,
and on the Board of the Center for the
Study of Human Rights. She has
taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the
University of Siena, and been the
recipient of fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright
Foundation, American Philosophical
Society, American Council of Learned
Societies, Humboldt Foundation, and the
Harvard University and Folger Libraries.
Her publications include Theatre of
the Book: Print, Text, and Performance
in Europe 1480-1880 (Oxford UP,
2000) (winner of the ACLA's Harry Levin
Prize, English Association's Beatrice
White Award, and honorable mention from
ASTR for the best book in theatre
history), Women's Rights, Human Rights:
International Feminist Perspectives
(co-edited, Routledge, 1995), Congreve,
the Drama, and the Printed Word
(Stanford UP, 1990), and numerous
articles on the history of drama and
performance and the cultural history of
the law. She is currently working
on a three book projects: a study of
turn-of-the-century “obscenity” and
theatrical modernism; a study of theatre
and anthropology between the eighteenth
and twentieth centuries; and a
historical study of legal performance
and the law’s fraught relationship to
its own theatricality.
B.A.
Kenyon, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins. Professor
Posnock was Andrew Hilen Professor of
American Literature at the University of
Washington before teaching in the English
department at New York University from
2000 to 2004. His books include Henry
James and the Problem of Robert Browning
(1985, University of Georgia Press); The
Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William
James and the Challenge of Modernity (1991,
Oxford UP); and Color and Culture:
Black Writers and the Making of the
Modern Intellectual (Harvard UP,
1998); The Cambridge Companion to
Ralph Ellison (editor, 2005); Philip
Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity
(Princeton UP, 2006). He is series
editor of Cambridge Studies in
American Literature and Culture and
is a contributing editor of Raritan
and American Literary History. In
1994 he was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship. In 2009 he was elected to The
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
B.A.,
University of Nottingham (1967); M.A.
(Linguistics), University of Birmingham
(1969); Ph.D., University of California,
Santa Cruz (1971). In 1990, Professor
Quigley came to Columbia from the
University of Virginia where he was
department chair; he has also taught at
the universities of Nottingham, Geneva,
Konstanz, and Massachusetts. His interests
are drama, modern literature, literary
theory, and linguistics. Author of The
Pinter Problem, The Modern
Stage and Other Worlds, and Theoretical
Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and
Literature, he has published
articles mainly on modern drama and
literary theory, and is currently writing
a book on Modernism, Postmodernism,
and the Drama. A past president of
the national Association of Literary
Scholars, Critics, and Writers and a
former chair of the Modern Language
Association's Drama Division Executive
Committee, Professor Quigley served from
1995-2009 as Dean of Columbia College,
chaired for several years the Lionel
Trilling Seminar Series, received in 2009
the Great Teacher Award from the Society
of Columbia Graduates, and currently
chairs the Interdepartmental Committee on
Drama and Theatre Arts. He has also served
on the editorial boards of New
Literary History, Modern Drama,
and The Pinter Review.
B.A.,
Harvard (1971); M.A., Harvard (1976);
Ph.D., Harvard (1980). Bruce Robbins works
mainly in the areas of nineteenth and
twentieth century fiction, literary and
cultural theory, and postcolonial studies.
He is the author of Feeling Global:
Internationalism in Distress (NYU,
1999), The Servant's Hand: English
Fiction from Below (Columbia, 1986;
Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations:
Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture
(Verso, 1993). He has edited Intellectuals:
Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
(Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom
Public Sphere (Minnesota, 1993) and
co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and
Feeling beyond the Nation
(Minnesota, 1998). He was co-editor of the
journal Social Text from 1991 to
2000. He has a book coming out from
Princeton University Press on upward
mobility stories and is working on another
about cosmopolitan fiction. Bruce
Robbins's website.
B.A.,
Harvard (1958); M.A., University of
Wisconsin (1959); Ph.D., Columbia (1967).
Professor Rosenthal is interested in
British literature and culture of the late
19th and early 20th centuries. He is the
author of Virginia Woolf and The
Character Factory: Baden-Powell's Boy
Scouts and the Imperatives of Empire.
B.A.,
Columbia (1977); Ph.D., University of
Chicago (1982). Professor Shapiro is
author of Rival Playwrights:
Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare (1991); Shakespeare
and the Jews (1995), which
was awarded the Bainton Prize for best
book on sixteenth-century
literature; Oberammergau: The
Troubling Story of the World's Most
Famous Passion Play (2000);
and 1599: A Year in the Life of
William Shakespeare (2005),
winner of the Theatre Book Prize as well
as the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, awarded
to the best nonfiction book published in
the UK. His most recent book is
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
(2010). He has co-edited the Columbia
Anthology of British Poetry and
served as the associate editor of
the Columbia History of British
Poetry. He has also taught as a
Fulbright lecturer at Bar Ilan and Tel
Aviv Universities and has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the NEH, the Cullman Center
for Scholars and Writers at the New York
Public Library, and the Huntington
Library. He is currently at work
on another book, The Year of
Lear: Shakespeare in 1606.
B.A., Literature and Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley
(1992); Ph.D., NYU (2003).
Cristobal Silva specializes in colonial
and 18th-century American literature and
culture, and in transatlantic
literature. His area of emphasis
is colonial epidemiology, ranging from
early New England to the late
eighteenth-century Caribbean and the
Haitian Revolution. He is the
author of Miraculous Plagues: An
Epidemiology of New England Narrative,
1616–1721 (Oxford University
Press, 2011), and is currently writing a
book titled Republic of Medicine:
Epidemiology and the Atlantic Slave
Trade, which traces the
intersection of 18th-century Western and
African medical narratives in the making
of national identity. He is
co-editing a collection titled Teaching
the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century
with Jennifer Frangos, and is Editor of
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation.
Associate Professor,
Columbia University and Barnard College
Specialization:
19th-century British and
European novel; 20th-century American and
British fiction; American Studies; film,
film theory; gender theory; European
modernism
B.A. Bennington College; Ph.D.,
Columbia University. Professor
Spiegel specializes in contemporary
fiction, film and narrative
theory. Part of the Core Faculty
of the Program in Narrative Medicine,
she teaches in Columbia’s new Master of
Science Program in Narrative Medicine;
she runs writing workshops for the staff
of the NYU/Bellevue Program for
Survivors of Torture, and she teaches a
film course to second-year medical
students at Columbia College of
Physicians and Surgeons. She is the
co-author of The Grim Reader:
Writings on Death, Dying and Living On (Anchor/
Doubleday), The Breast Book: An
Intimate and Curious History (Workman),
which was a Book-of-the-Month
Club-Quality Paperbacks selection; she
has recently edited editions of Upton
Sinclair’s The Jungle and
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of
the Apes for the Barnes
& Noble Classics Series. She
co-edited the journal Literature
and Medicine (Johns Hopkins
University Press) for seven years, has
written for The New York Times,
and has published essays on the history
of the emotions, fashion in film, the
film-viewer’s parallel processes, and
Charles Dickens, among many other
topics. She is currently writing a
book about the films of Sidney Lumet.
on leave Fall 2011; by
appointment, Administrative Assistant at
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Bio
Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak is University
Professor, the highest honor given to a
handful of professors across the
university, and a founding member of the
Institute for Comparative Literature and
Society at Columbia University. B.A.
English (First Class Honors), Presidency
College, Calcutta, 1959. Ph.D.
Comparative Literature, Cornell
University, 1967. D. Litt, University of
Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of
London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College,
2008. D. Honoris Causa, Universitat Roveri
I Virgili,
2011.
Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction,
globalization. Books: Myself Must
I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W. B.
Yeats (1974), Of
Grammatology (translation with
critical introduction of Jacques Derrida,
De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other
Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
(1987; Routledge Classic 2002), Selected
Subaltern Studies (ed., 1988), The
Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews,
Strategies, Dialogues (1990), Thinking
Academic Freedom in Gendered
Post-Coloniality (1993; 2d ed
forthcoming), Outside in the Teaching Machine
(1993; Routledge classic 2003), Imaginary
Maps (translation with critical
introduction of three stories by Mahasweta
Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader
(1995),
Breast Stories (translation with
critical introduction of three stories by
Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women
(translation with critical introduction of
two stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1999), Imperatives
to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative
zur Neuerfindung des Planeten
(ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999; 2d ed.
forthcoming), A Critique of Postcolonial
Reason: Towards a History of the
Vanishing Present (1999), Song for
Kali: A Cycle (translation with
introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000), Chotti Munda
and His Arrow (translation with
critical introduction of a novel by
Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a
Discipline (2003), Other Asias
(2005), An
Aesthetic Education in the Age of
Globalization
(forthcoming). Significant articles:
"Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing
Historiography" (1985), "Three Women's
Texts and a Critique of Imperialism"
(1985), "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988),
"The Politics of Translation" (1992),
"Moving Devi" (1999), "Righting Wrongs"
(2003), "Ethics and Politics in Tagore,
Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching"
(2004), "Translating into English" (2005),
"Rethinking Comparativism" (2010).
Activist in rural education and feminist
and ecological social movements since
1986.
Cambridge, B.A. (1988), M.A. (1992);
London, Ph.D. (1993). Alan Stewart
joined Columbia in 2003, after teaching
for ten years at Queen Mary, and
Birkbeck, both University of
London. His publications include Close
Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early
Modern England (1997); Hostage
to Fortune: The Troubled Life of
Francis Bacon 1561-1626 (with
Lisa Jardine, 1998); Philip Sidney:
A Double Life (2000); The
Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I
(2003); and Letterwriting in
Renaissance England (with Heather
Wolfe, 2004). His latest
monograph, Shakespeare's Letters,
was published in 2008 by Oxford
University Press. He is currently
editing volumes 1 and 2 of the Oxford
Francis Bacon. Since 2002, he has been
the International Director of the Centre
for Editing Lives and Letters (www.livesandletters.ac.uk)
for which he is producing an online
edition of Bacon's correspondence.
Mark Strand is the
author of twelve books of poems,
including Blizzard of One (Alfred
A. Knopf, 1998), which won the Pulitzer
Prize; Man and Camel (2006); New
Selected Poems (2007); Dark
Harbor (1993); The Continuous
Life (1990); Selected Poems
(1980); The Story of Our Lives
(1973); and Reasons for Moving
(1968). He has also published two books
of prose, several volumes of translation
(of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos
Drummond de Andrade, among others),
several monographs on contemporary
artists, and three books for children.
He has edited a number of volumes,
including The Golden Ecco Anthology
(1994), The Best American Poetry
1991, and Another Republic: 17
European and South American Writers
(with Charles Simic , 1976). His honors
include the Wallace Stevens Award, the
Bollingen Prize, the Bobbit Prize, three
grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize, and
a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well
as fellowships from The Academy of
American Poets, the MacArthur
Foundation, the Ingram Merrill
Foundation; in 2006-07, he was the
recipient of 3 international poetry
prizes (Premio Cetonaverde, Premio
D'Annunzio, and the Premio Bonanni). He
has served as Poet Laureate of the
United States in 1990-1991. He was
formerly the Andrew MacLeish
Distinguished Service Professor of
Social Thought at the University of
Chicago. He won The Gold Medal in Poetry
from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters in 2009.
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933
Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
University. She has published
widely on education, religion, and
culture; nineteenth-century British and
colonial cultural studies; and the
history of modern disciplines. Her
most recent article is “Secularism in
the Framework of Heterodoxy” published
in PMLA (2008). She is the
author of Masks of Conquest:
Literary Study and British Rule in
India (Columbia, 1989; Oxford,
1998) and Outside the Fold:
Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
(Princeton, 1998), which won the Harry
Levin Prize awarded by the American
Comparative Literature Association, the
James Russell Lowell Prize awarded by
the Modern Language Association of
America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Prize awarded by the Association for
Asian Studies. She is also the editor of
Power, Politics, and Culture:
Interviews with Edward W. Said
(Vintage, 2001), as well as a special
issue of ARIEL: A Review of English
Literature (2000) on
“Institutionalizing English Studies: The
Postcolonial/Postindependence
Challenge.” Prof. Viswanathan’s current
work is on modern occultism and the
writing of alternative religious
histories. She has held numerous
visiting chairs, among them the Beckman
Professorship at Berkeley, and was most
recently an affiliated fellow at the
American Academy in Rome. She has
received Guggenheim, NEH, and Mellon
fellowships, and was a fellow at various
international research institutes.
B.A., Yale
(1971); B.A. Oxford (1973); D.Phil.,
Oxford (1976). At Columbia since 1977,
Professor Yerkes is a specialist in the
history of the English language. A
founding member of the Society for Textual
Scholarship and a life member of the
American Dialect Society, he has written
three books and more than fifty articles,
published in eight countries, on the
English language.
Professor Emerita of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Comparative medieval
literature, including Dante,
provençal poetry, allegory,
romance, women; also human rights,
specifically women, religion and human
rights
B.A., Barnard (1958); M.A., Columbia (1959);
Ph.D., Columbia (1963). At Columbia since 1963,
Professor Ferrante has also taught at Swarthmore,
Fordham, Tulane. She has received fellowships from
the American Council of Learned Societies and NEH
and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of
America. She has served on the boards of Speculum,
Lectura Dantis Americana, and Dante
Studies; has served on Executive Councils of
the Medieval Academy and MLA, and as President of
the Dante Society and the national Phi Beta Kappa
Society, and as President of the Medieval Academy.
Her field is medieval comparative literature,
specializing in Dante, Provencal lyric, medieval
allegory and romance, and women in the Middle
Ages. She has published many articles and several
books, including To the Glory of Her Sex:
Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval
Texts (1997), The Political Vision of
the Divine Comedy (1984), The Lais of
Marie de France, a translation and
commentary written with Robert Hanning (1978), Woman
as Image in Medieval Literature (1975), Guillaume
d'Orange, Four Twelfth Century Epics
(1974), The Conflict of Love and Honor: The
Medieval Tristan Legend (1973). She is
currently working on a database on medieval
women's letters, called Epistolae, which
is available online through the Columbia
Interactive.
Professor Emeritus of
English and Comparative Literature
Specialization:
English and French
medieval literature and culture;
Chaucer; Cinquecento Italian courtly
literature; issues of race, ethnicity,
and identity construction in the U.S.
B.A., Columbia (1958);
B.A., Oxford (1960); M.A., Oxford
(1964); Ph.D., Columbia (1964).
Professor Hanning began teaching at
Columbia in 1963; he has also taught at
Bread Loaf (Middlebury College), Yale,
Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Princeton. He
was director and professor at the Bread
Loaf School at Lincoln College, Oxford
in 1980, 1984, 1986, and directed NEH
Summer Seminars for College Teachers in
1982, 1985, and 1989. He has received
ACLS, Guggenheim, and NEH Fellowships
and has been elected a Fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America (1986) and a
Trustee of the New Chaucer Society
(1998-2002). He was the Biennial Chaucer
Lecturer at the 1998 NCS Congress, at
the Sorbonne in Paris. His areas of
expertise include medieval English
literature, Chaucer, and the cultural
function of medieval narrative forms. At
the undergraduate level, he teaches
courses on the constructions of "race"
and ethnicity and the fortunes of
immigrant groups in America, and has for
nearly three decades co-taught (with
David Rosand of Art History) a seminar,
"Art and Literature of the Renaissance."
He has published books on medieval
historiography and romance, coedited an
anthology and two essay collections,
and, with Joan Ferrante, co-translated
(with commentary) the Lais of
Marie de France. 2005-2006 is Prof.
Hanning's last year of teaching; he
retires 30 June 2006 after 45 years of
offering instruction at Columbia. In
October, he will give the Schoff
Lectures sponsored by the Columbia
University Seminars, on "Serious Play:
Crises of Desire and Authority in the
Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto."
A.B., Columbia (1948); A.M.
(1949); Ph.D., Columbia (1961); D.H.L.
Clark (1986). Professor Marcus has been
teaching at Columbia since 1956. A Fellow
of both the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the Academy of Literary
Studies, he has received Fulbright,
American Council of Learned Societies,
Guggenheim, Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences, Rockefeller, and
Mellon grants. He has served as director
of planning and chairman of the executive
committee of the Board of Trustees for the
National Humanities Center. In 1979 he was
appointed an honorary member of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, and
in 1991 of the Institute for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In
1992 he was elected as a Scientific
Associate of the American Academy of
Psychoanalysts. A specialist in
19th-century literature and culture, Prof.
Marcus is the author of over 200
publications, including the books Dickens
From Pickwick to Dombey, The
Other Victorians, Engels,Manchester
and the Working Class, Doing
Good, and Representations:
Essays on Literature and Society. He
was co-editor, with Lionel Trilling, of
Ernest Jones's The Life and Work of
Sigmund Freud, serves as associate
editor of Partisan Review, and is
on the editorial boards of such
publications as Prose Studies,
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought,
Psychoanalytic Books, and Psyche.
Among other works, Freud and the
Culture of Psychoanalysis was
published in 1984, and Medicine and
Western Civilization in 1995.
Brander Matthews
Professor of English and Dramatic
Literature
Specialization:
European and American
drama, 1500 to present; 19th-century
fictions; literature and painting;
Anglo-Irish and Scottish literature;
19th-century popular theater
A.B., Queens College
(1952); M.A., Princeton (1957); Ph.D.,
Princeton (1960). Professor Meisel
served as Department Chair for 1999-2000
and from 1980-83 and as GSAS Vice
President 1986-87 and 1989-93; he came
to Columbia in 1968 after having taught
at Rutgers, Dartmouth, and the
University of Wisconsin. He has held
grants and fellowships from the
Guggenheim, American Council of Learned
Societies, Institute for Advanced Study
in the Humanities at Edinburgh,
Huntington Library, National Humanities
Center, and Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars. He is a member of
the Doctoral Program Subcommittee on
Theater. His publications include Shaw
and the 19th-CenturyTheatre and Realizations:
Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical
Arts of the 19th Century. He is
currently at work on a book concerning
the imagination and representation of
chaos from Hesiod to Beckett.
B.A.,
Columbia (1950); M.A., Columbia (1951);
B.A., Clare College, Cambridge (1953); M.A.,
Cambridge (1958); Ph.D., Columbia (1960).
Professor Rosenberg joined Columbia's
graduate faculty in 1962. He has also taught
at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of
British Columbia. He has received many
awards and fellowships, including a Kellett
Award, the Award for Distinguished Service
to the Columbia College Core Curriculum, and
American Council of Learned Societies,
Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. Prof.
Rosenberg has edited works by Ruskin,
Mayhew, Swinburne, and Tennyson; and has
written The Darkening Glass, on
Ruskin (1961); The Fall of Camelot,
on Tennyson (1973); and Carlyle and the
Burden of History (1985). He has
served as DGS and chair of the Humanities
Program, and he has served on the advisory
boards of Nineteenth-Century Literature,
the Victorians Institute Journal,
and the Carlyle Studies Annual. His
most recent book, sceduled for publication
in 2005, is Elegy for an Age: The
Presence of the Past in Victorian
Literature.
B.A., UCLA
(1966); M.A., UCLA (1967); Ph.D., UCLA
(1970). Professor Seidel came to Columbia
in 1977, after having taught at Yale for
seven years. He serves as Chair of
Literature Humanites. He has served as
Department Chair, as Vice Chair, and as
M.A. Director. He is an advisory editor of
James Joyce Studies and a member of
the National Humanities Board of the World
Book Encyclopedia. He has received a
NEH and served as director of NEH summer
seminars for college teachers (1987,
1992). He specializes in 18th-century
literature, in narrative theory, in
satire, and in James Joyce. His first book
was Epic Geography: James Joyce's
Ulysses (1976). He has edited Homer
to Brecht: The European Epic and
Dramatic Traditions, with Edward
Mendelson. He has published a book on
narrative satire, Satiric Inheritance:
Rabelais to Sterne (1979); on the
novel, Exile and the Narrative
Imagination (1986); on Robinson
Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel
(1991); two baseball books, Streak:
Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
and Ted Williams: A Baseball Life;
and James Joyce: A Short Introduction
(2002). He is associate editor of Columbia
History of the British Novel,
associate editor of Columbia World of
Quotations, and associate editor of
The Works of Daniel Defoe. He is
currently Chair of Literature Humanities.
Most recently J.R.R. Tolkien
Professor of English Language and Literature at
the University of Oxford, Paul Strohm joined the
Columbia faculty in fall 2003. His area of
principal interest is medieval literature with a
recent emphasis on transitions from 'medieval' to
'early modern.' His teaching and research have
concerned the 'affiliated text,' with special
attention to textuality and history and to genre
and social change. Publications include: Social
Chaucer (Harvard, 1989, 1994); Hochon's
Arrow: The Social Imagination of
Fourteenth-Century Texts (Princeton, 1992);
England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and Textual
Legitimation, 1399-1422 (Yale UK, 1998); Theory
and the Premodern Text (Minnesota, 2000); Politique:
Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and
Shakespeare (Notre Dame, 2005). He has
previously been departmental Chair and President
of the Faculty Council at Indiana University, has
held various national offices and posts with the
AAUP (was recently appointed to a three year term
on the National AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
and Tenure), and in 2001-3 was Chair of the
English Faculty at the University of Oxford.
BA Amherst
(1954), PhD Stanford (1960). Professor
Tayler has taught at Stanford, Princeton,
The Bread Loaf School of English, and
Columbia (since 1960). He has led on rare
occasions an active if not interesting
professional life, giving talks in a
variety of venues, here and abroad,
finding himself a member of scholarly
societies, serving on editorial boards,
and the like. His honors include a
Guggenheim Fellowship (1969) and two
NEH-Huntington Grants (1975, 1983); "Great
Teacher," Society of Older Graduates
(1985), Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching
and Leadership (1986), "Honored Scholar,"
Milton Society (1989), Presidential Award
for Outstanding Teaching (1996),
Distinguished Service to the Core
Curriculum (1998). He has taught the
poetry and prose of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, with special
attention to Shakespeare and Milton, for a
long time. In addition to writing a few
reviews and fewer articles Tayler has
published these books: Nature and Art
in Renaissance Literature (1964); Literary
Criticism of Seventeenth-Century England
(1967); Milton's Poetry (1979);
and Donne's Idea of a Woman
(1991). He still thinks to write, and
especially to teach and learn.
Rare Book & Manuscript
Library, Butler Library 6th floor East
Office
Hours:
By appointment
Bio
B.A., San Francisco State (1995); Ph.D., University of
Delaware (2005). Gerald Cloud is Curator
of Literature in Columbia University's
Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the
coordinator of the Book
History Colloquium
at Columbia. His research focuses on
the History of the Book and print culture,
particularly of the 19th and 20th Century.
He is the author of John
Rodker's Ovid Press, a Bibliographical
Study (Oak Knoll Press, 2010) and
a Lab Instructor for the "Introduction to
the Principles of Descriptive
Bibliography" course at Rare Book School,
University of Virginia.
Jerome Greene Hall 521
(main building of the Law School)
Office
Hours:
M 3-5 by appointment only:
contact Gabriel Soto (gsoto@law.columbia.edu
or 854-0522 or cubicle 7W2 in JG) to
schedule an appt
Bio
A.B.,
Harvard College (1964);
J.D., Harvard Law School
(1968), Ph.D., Harvard (1974). Prof.
Ferguson taught in both the English
Department and the Law School at the University
of Chicago as the Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the Humanities, and
also at Stanford and Harvard before
joining Columbia. He has also taught
in American Studies at Princeton
University and the Yale Law School.
His primary interest is the
interdisciplinary study of
American culture with particular
emphases on literature, law, and
history. Prof. Ferguson has
received fellowships from the
N.E.H., the National Humanities
Center, and Guggenheim
foundation. He is the author of
numerous articles as well as Law
and Letters in American
Culture (1984), which won
the Willard Hurst Award from the
Law and Society Association, The
American Enlightenment,
1750-1829 (1994), and,
forthcoming in 2004, Reading
The Early Republic. His
current project is a study of
the courtroom trial as a central
ceremony in American life.
Associate Director of the
Heyman Center for the Humanities and the
Society of Fellows and Adjunct Associate
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature and the Institute for Research on
Women and Gender
Specialization:
19th-century British
literature and culture; gender and
psychoanalytic studies; 19th-century moral
psychology; 19th-century British colonial
literature and culture
B.A., Scripps
College (1977); Ph.D., Columbia (1993)
Professor Gillooly's interests include
nineteenth-century literature and culture in
Britain and its colonies, the history of the
English novel, and gender, feminist, and
psychoanalytic theory. She is the
author of Smile of Discontent: Humor,
Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British
Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1999),
which was awarded the Perkins Prize by the
International Society for the Study of
Narrative (2001), and of essays, articles,
and reviews in such publications as
Victorian Studies, ELH, Feminist Studies,
The New York Times Book Review, Victorian
Literary Cultures: A Critical Companion to
the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Feminist
Literary Theory: A Dictionary, The Victorian
Comic Spirit, The Politics of Humour,
Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal
Palace, Feminist Nightmares/Women at Odds,
and Contemporary Dickens. She has
edited the poetry of Robert Browning and
Rudyard Kipling (Sterling Publishing: 2000
and 2001) and is a contributing editor of
Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal
Palace (University of Virginia Press, 2007),
with James Buzard and Joseph Childers, and
Contemporary Dickens (Ohio State University
Press, 2009), with Deirdre David. She has
been awarded research fellowships by the
American Council of Learned Societies
(1996-97), the National Endowment for the
Humanities (2003-04), and the National
Humanities Center (2009-10). In 2002, she
received the Award for Distinguished Service
to the Core Curriculum. She has served on
the Executive Board of the International
Society for the Study of Narrative
(2005-2008) and is currently Secretary of
the Executive Committee of the MLA Division
for the Victorian Period. She is on
the advisory boards of Nineteenth-Century
Gender Studies and Columbia Themes in
Philosophy, Social Criticism and the Arts,
Columbia University Press. Her
current projects include writing a book
about parental feeling in nineteenth-century
middle-class Britain and revising the Norton
Critical Edition of David Copperfield.
Professor of Comparative
Literature (also in ICLS and the
Department of Classics)
Specialization:
Comparative literature
(French, German, Ancient Greek, Modern
Greek); literary theory; modernity and
modernism; poetics; secular criticism;
contemporary music
Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature, UCLA 1990.
Professor Gourgouris writes and teaches on
a variety of subjects, ultimately entwined
around questions of the poetics and
politics of modernity. He is the author of
Dream Nation: Enlightenment,
Colonization, and the Institution of
Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996) and
Does Literature Think? Literature as
Theory for an Antimythical Era
(Stanford, 2003), and editor of the
forthcoming Freud and Fundamentalism
(Fordham, 2009). Outside these projects he
has also published numerous articles on
Ancient Greek philosophy, modern poetics,
film, contemporary music, Enlightenment
law, psychoanalysis. He is currently
completing work on two projects of secular
criticism: The Perils of the One
and Nothing Sacred. He is also
an internationally awarded poet, with four
volumes of poetry published in Greek, most
recent being ??sa???? st?? F?s???
[Introduction to Physics] (Athens,
2005). He has translated the work of
various Greek poets into English – notably
Yiannis Patilis’ Camel of Darkness
(Quarterly Review of Literature Book
Series, Vol 36, 1997) – as well as the
poetry of Heiner Müller and Carolyn
Forché into Greek. He writes
regularly in major Greek newspapers and
journals on political and literary
matters.
B.A. Queen's
University, Ph.D, Yale University (1997),
Diplôme, École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
Ross Hamilton specializes in metahistorical
patterns from the Reformation to
Romanticism, as well as the shift from
natural philosophy to early modern science.
He is also interested in the Annales
historians and their influence. He was a
prize teaching fellow at Yale, and held a
post-doctorate fellowship at Johns Hopkins
University. His first book, Accident: A
Literary and Philosophical History
(University of Chicago Press, 2008), traces
the transformations and mutations of
Aristotle's notion of the accidental or
inessential from Sophocles to late 20th
century film. It won the 2007-2007
Harry Levin Prize for Literary History from
the ACLA. A second book, Falling:
Literature, Science and Social Change,
will explore literary analogues to the
paradigm shift from natural philosophy to
early modern science described by Thomas
Kuhn, among others. In addition to editing
Tom Jones, he has written articles on
Wordsworth, Erasmus Darwin, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and the eighteenth century culture
of gambling, theater and the rise of the
novel, and the paintings of Pieter Bruegel
the Elder.
Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, Barnard College
Specialization:
19th-c. comparative
literature, esp. romantic and the novel;
20th-c. global English literature;
literary theory, esp. psychoanalytic
(Lacanian); postmodernism
B.A.,
Vassar, Ph.D, Harvard (1968), Fulbright
Scholar, Cambridge, England. Maire Jaanus
is currently interested in the
interrelationship between literature,
Lacanian psychoanalysis, and neuroscience
and what these disciplines contribute to
the concepts of happiness, pleasure, and
jouissance. She is the author of She—a Novel
(Doubleday, 1984), Literature
and Negation (CU Press,
1979;Rept., 1988), Georg Trakl
(CU Press, 1974), and co-editor of Lacan in the
German-Speaking World (SUNY,
2004), Reading
Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to
Freud (SUNY, 1996) and Reading
Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental
Concepts (SUNY, 1995). Recent
work includes: “Ordinary Happiness in
Lispector’s Stream of Life or Beyond
the object a, Psychoanalytic Notebooks,
19/ 2009; “Inhibition, Heautoscopy,
Movement in the Freudian and Lacanian
Body,” The
Symptom 10/Lacan.com/Spring 2009;
“Tolstoy and Lacan: Phallic Jouissance and
the
passage à l’acte in Anna
Karenina,” Lacanian
Compass (13, 2008); "A
Psychoanalytic Reading of Socrates: Lacan
on Plato's Symposium," ed. Ann
Ward, Socrates
Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of
European Identity (Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2007); “Estonia's
Time and Monumental Time,” and “Estonia
and Pain: Jaan Kross's The
Czar's Madman,” Baltic
Postcolonialism (Amsterdam-New
York: Rodoiphe, 2006); “Tammsaare
and Love,” Interlitteraia (Tartu
University Press, 10/2005); Introduction
and Notes for Dostoevsky’s The Brothers
Karamazov (Barnes & Noble
Classics, 2004). She is co-editor-in-chief
with Jacques-Alain Miller of a new
Lacanian journal, Culture
& Clinic (forthcoming with
Minnesota University Press). She is on the
editorial board of Methis: Studia Humaniora
Estonic; Cultural Formations, and
Re)-turn:
A Journal of Lacanian Studies.
B.A.,
Muhlenberg College; M.A., Cornell
University; Ph.D., Columbia
University. Deborah Martinsen’s
research focuses on the work of
Dostoevsky, nineteenth-century Russian
prose, narrative theory, shame studies,
and the novel. She is the author of
Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars
and Narrative Exposure (2003) and
the editor of Literary Journals in
Imperial Russia (1997). She
is currently working on two
projects: The Devil Incarnate,
a study of Ivan Karamazov’s devil, and Narratives
from Underground, a study of
20th-century narratives whose authors
adapt different strategies developed by
Dostoevsky as he created the narrator of Notes
from Underground. She is
currently President of the International
Dostoevsky Society and Executive Secretary
of the North American Dostoevsky Society.
B.A.,
Barnard (1959); M.A., Columbia (1961);
Ph.D., Columbia (1967). Professor Prescott
has taught at Barnard since 1961 and at
Columbia since 1979. A trustee of the
Renaissance Society of America and a past
president of the Spenser Society, she is
on the editorial board of SEL, Spenser
Studies, American Notes and
Queries, and Moreana and is
on the advisory council of PMLA. A
specialist in the English Renaissance, she
is the author of French Poets and the
English Renaissance and Imagining
Rabelais in the English Renaissance
(Yale UP, 1998); she has also published
(with Hugh Maclean) a revised Norton Spenser;
co-edited, with Patrick Cheney, Approaches
to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry
(MLA, 2000); and co-edited, with Betty
Travitsky, Female and Male Voices in
Early Modern England (Columbia 2000)
and the Ashgate series of facsimile
editions of early modern texts by modern
women. She is currently working on David
in the Renaissance and on Renaissance
almanacs and calendars.
Twentieth-century British
literature, with particular
interests in the modern novel,
modernist interarts aesthetics,
contemporary British fiction, life
writing, and gender studies
B.A. Columbia College (1990); Ph.D.
Columbia University (1999).
Victoria Rosner specializes in
twentieth-century British
literature, with particular
interests in the modern novel,
modernist interarts aesthetics,
contemporary British fiction, life
writing, and gender studies. Her
book, Modernism and the
Architecture of Private Life
(Columbia UP, 2005) was awarded the
Modernist Studies Association book
prize. Topics of recent articles
include the globalization of English
studies, gender and polar studies,
and Virginia Woolf's Mrs.
Dalloway. With Nancy K.
Miller, she is editor of the Gender
and Culture book series
published by Columbia University
Press. She is currently
working on a book about modernism
and the mechanization of the
domestic sphere, as well as editing
a collection of essays on feminism
and globalization (with Geraldine
Pratt).
B.A.,
University of Massachusetts (1977); Ph.D.,
Princeton University (1981). W. B.
Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the
Arts, and Professor and Chair of the
Department of Theatre (Barnard), is the
author of several books, including The
Idea of the Actor (Princeton
University Press, 1984), Modern Drama
and the Rhetoric of Theater (Univ.
of California Press, 1993), Shakespeare
and the Authority of Performance
(Cambridge University Press, 1997), Shakespeare
and the Force of Modern Performance
(Cambridge University Press, 2002), and
most recently Print and the Poetics of
Modern Drama (Cambridge University
Press, 2006). His new book, Drama:
Between Poetry and Performance, will
be published by Blackwell-Wiley later this
year; he is currently writing a book on
literature and performance studies. He is
the editor of the Wadsworth Anthology
of Drama, and of the award-winning Modern
Drama: Plays, Criticism, Theory; he
is the former editor of the professional
journals Modern Drama and Theatre
Journal, and his articles have
appeared in PMLA, Shakespeare
Quarterly, TDR, Modern Drama,
Performance Research, Theatre Journal,
and elsewhere. Professor Worthen took his
B. A. at the University of Massachusetts,
summa cum laude, in English in 1977, and
his Ph.D. in English Literature at
Princeton University in 1981. Before
coming to Barnard, Professor Worthen
taught at the University of Texas at
Austin, Northwestern University, the
University of California at Davis, the
University of California at Berkeley, and
at the University of Michigan, as well as
being a founding faculty member of the
International Centre for Advanced Theatre
Studies sponsored by the University of
Helsinki, Finland. He has held grants from
a number of foundations, including the
National Endowment for the Humanities and
the Gugenheim Foundation; most recently,
he is a Fellow of the "Interweaving
Performance Cultures" International
Research Center, Institute for Theater
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. He
teaches a wide range of courses in
dramatic literature and performance
theory, and is affiliated with the Theatre
Division of the Columbia School of the
Arts, and the Columbia Department of
English and Comparative Literature
B.A.,
Harvard (1967); Ph. D., Harvard (1974).
Jonathan Arac rejoined Columbia in 2001,
leaving the University of Pittsburgh,
where he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor
of English. He previously served on the
faculty of Princeton, University of
Illinois at Chicago, Duke, and Columbia
(Visiting Associate Professor, 1981-82;
Professor, 1987-89), and he has held
visiting chairs at Oxford and
Northwestern. Since 1979, he has been a
member of the group editingboundary
2. He has served on the editorial
boards ofComparative
Literature(since
1989)
andAmerican
Literature(2000-02);
and was an Advisory Editor forPMLA(1990-94)
and member of the Supervising Committee
of the English Institute (1985-88;
Chair, 1987-88). His work focuses on
problems in the historical and
comparative study of culture,
literature, and criticism—emphasizing
19th-century England, the United States
in the 19th and 20th centuries, and
20th-century theory. He has edited or
co-edited five books, includingPostmodernism
and Politics(1986),After
Foucault(1988),
andMacropolitics
of Nineteenth-Century Literature(1991).
He is author ofCommissioned
Spirits(1979);Critical
Genealogies(1987);"Huckleberry
Finn" As Idol and Target(1997);
andThe
Emergence of American Literary
Narrative, 1820-1860(2005).
Soon to enter production isImpure
Worlds. In 2003 he co-edited a
special issue ofboundary
2on
Ralph Ellison. He is currently exploring
the emergence of the notion of
'identity' in the mid-twentieth-century
US.
Dual B.A.s
(English and Southern Studies) The
University of Mississippi (2003);
M.A./Ph.D. (English) The
Pennsylvania State University (2009). Amy
Clukey is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in
English and the Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race. At Columbia, she will
teach courses on literary representations
of the Haitian Revolution, Caribbean
Modernism, the Southern Literary
Renaissance, and William Faulkner. Her
research focuses on twentieth-century
transatlantic literature, particularly
plantation fiction and the literature of
slavery. She has written article-length
studies on the relations between
imperialism and cosmopolitanism in the
work of Jean Rhys and Ellen Glasgow. Her
current projects include a monograph based
on her dissertation Plantation
Modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S.
Fiction 1890-1950 and a
collection on plantation modernity
co-edited with Jeremy Wells.
B.A.,
Manchester College (1997), Ph.D.,
University of Delaware (2006). Professor
Kucukalic specializes in contemporary
American literature and culture, with an
interest in emerging narratives and new
critical methodologies of the digital
age. Her approach is interdisciplinary,
focusing on the study of human
intellectual development in the age of
technology, and on literature and
philosophy, particularly metaphysics,
both traditional and cybernetic.
Professor Kucukalic also teaches
Literature Humanities in the Core
Curriculum. She is the author of Philip
K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the
Digital Age (Routledge, 2008), in
the Studies in Major American
Literary Authors series. Her
current projects include a translation
of the Bosnian novel It Happened in
July (Kad je bio Juli)
about the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.
B.A., Haverford
College (1998), Ph.D., Brandeis
(2006). Aaron Ritzenberg is the
Associate Director of First-Year
Writing. In his research, he considers
the relationship between literature
and social change in U.S. history. He
is the author of The Sentimental Touch
(Fordham UP: forthcoming), which
examines the fate of sentimental
literary conventions between 1850 and
1940—when sentimental literature
seemed to fade from the cultural
landscape, and newly formed
bureaucracies began to dominate
American culture. His current research
focuses on writing pedagogy. He has
published articles on Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Sherwood Anderson, Charles
Chesnutt, Epes Sargent, and Michael
Chabon.
B.A./M.A.
Cambridge (2001); M.A/Ph.D., Harvard
(2009). Zoe Trodd is a Faculty
Fellow in English and the Institute for
Research in African American Studies.
Her main focus is American protest
literature, especially the literature of
civil rights, anti-lynching and
abolitionism. Her courses this year
range from undergraduate classes on
African American Protest Literature and
African American Photographic Cultures
to graduate seminars on Historical
Memory. In 2008-09 she was an
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Fellow and in
2009-10 she was a postdoctoral fellow at
UNC Chapel Hill in the Center for the
Study of the American South. Her
dissertation about the memory of
abolitionism in late 19th- and
20th-century American protest literature
was a finalist for the Ralph Henry
Gabriel Prize and is forthcoming as a
book. Her other books include The
Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and
the Harpers Ferry Raid (Harvard
UP 2011), Modern Slavery: The
Secret World of 27 Million People
(Oneworld 2009), To Plead Our Own
Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s
Slaves (Cornell UP 2008), American
Protest Literature (Harvard UP
2006) and Meteor of War: The John
Brown Story (Blackwell 2004). She
is working on several other book
projects, including a monograph about
representations of Frederick Douglass in
20th-century literature and art and a
co-authored book about the memory of
John Brown and Nat Turner. Her website
is www.zoetrodd.com.
B. A.,
McGill University (1988); M. Sc.,
University of Edinburgh (1990); Ph.D.,
New York University (2004). Nicole
Wallack is the Director of The
Undergraduate Writing Program. Her
fields of interest are rhetoric and
composition, teacher education,
history of the essay, American
Modernist essays, creative nonfiction,
and auditory culture. She is also an
associate of the Institute for Writing
and Thinking (IWT) at Bard College. At
Bard, she designs and conducts
workshops for educators on the essay,
assessment, writing-to-learn
practices, writing across the
curriculum, and listening as a
pedagogical praxis. She works as a
Writing Across the Curriculum
consultant in high schools and
colleges around the country.
Currently, she is preparing a book
manuscript based on her dissertation,
Finding a Form: Crafting the
Writer’s Presence in The
Best American Essays 1986-2003,
and co-authoring a book for the IWT on
revision.
B.A.
Missouri Southern (1982), M.F.A. Alabama
(1985), Ph.D. Stanford (1993). Zander
joined the adjunct faculty at Columbia
in 2006 after having taught and directed
plays in theater departments at Lehigh
University, The College of Wooster, and
Montclair State. He is the editor of the
Eugene O’Neill Review, an
annual scholarly journal published by
Suffolk University in Boston, and the
author of a book on O’Neill, The
Aesthetics of Failure (McFarland
2001). He also co-edited Jason
Robards Remembered: Essays and
Recollections (McFarland 2002).
His most recent book, American
Drama in the Age of Film (Alabama
2007) was a Finalist for the Theatre
Library Association Award. He is
currently writing the Instructor’s
Manual for TheNorton
Anthology of Drama (2009).
B.A., Yale
(1987); Ph.D., Columbia (1994). Monica
Feinberg Cohen specializes in English
narrative of the long nineteenth century and
the nineteenth-century European novel.
She is interested in Victorian cultural
studies, narrative and genre theory, and
gender studies. Her book, Professional
Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women,
Work and Home was published by
Cambridge University Press in 1998. Her
articles have appeared in Novel,
Studies in
the Novel, Victorian
Literatureand Culture
and The Dickens Quarterly, and Texas Studies
in Language and Literature. She has
contributed to The Encyclopedia of the Novel
(Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998) and to Victorian
Women Novelists and the "Woman
Question" (Cambridge University Press,
1999). She is a contributor to the upcoming
MLA Guide
to Teaching MANSFIELD PARK and
author of the introduction to the Barnes and
Noble reprint of The Old Curiosity Shop
(2009) and the upcoming The Mystery of
Edwin Drood. She is the
recipient of the 2009 Tony Hilfer Memorial
Prize from
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
and is currently at work on a manuscript
concerning Victorian literary piracy and
pirate narratives.
B.A.,
Hunter College (1992); Ph.D., The Graduate
Center, CUNY (2004), Marianne Giordani
specializes in the literature, culture,
and intellectual history of the long 18th
century, with interests in rhetoric,
poetics, and criticism encompassing other
periods as well. Specific areas include
the quarrel between the ancients and the
moderns; natural psychology, aesthetics,
and moral philosophy; the Bible and
post-Reformation historiography; Christian
epic and the modern novel; ekphrastic
poetry and the visual arts. She is
currently revising for publication her
dissertation, "The Sublime: A Modern Trope
for Literary Value and Poetic Reform."
BA,
Williams College; MFA, Columbia
University; Ph.D., Columbia University.
Stephen Massimilla specializes in
nineteenth-and twentieth-century
literature and culture, and more broadly
in poetry and poetics. Other areas of
interest include mythology, Romanticism,
postcolonialism, and film. He has written
on Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot,
Henry James, Woolf, WC Williams, Lorca,
Walcott, contemporary poetry, and
classical and Eastern myth. Massimilla's
articles, poems, translations, and reviews
have appeared in The American Literary
Review, Ariel Review of
International English Criticism, Barrow
Street, Chelsea, The
Cream City Review, Epoch, Provincetown
Arts, Quarterly West, The
Southern Review, Tampa Review,
and scores of other journals and
anthologies. His book Forty Floors
from Yesterday (Bordighera, 2002)
received the Sonia Raiziss-Giop Prize; his
sonnet sequence Later on Aiaia
(2001) received the Grolier Poetry Prize;
his volume Almost a Second Thought
(2004) was runner-up for the National
Poetry Book Award, judged by X.J. Kennedy.
His current critical project addresses the
relation between Modernist poetry and
visual art.
B.A.,
Columbia College (1988); Ph.D., University
of California, Berkeley (1998); M.L.I.S.,
Simmons (2006). Mark Phillipson works with
the poetry of British romanticism, with an
emphasis on publication technology and
evolving methods of dissemination. He has
published articles in Studies in
Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century
Literature, and Romantic Circles; his
collaborative Romantic Audience Project
(Bowdoin College, 2003
and 2005
) has been profiled by EDUCAUSE , The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The
Washington Post, and others. His inventory
of the application of wikis to higher
education pedagogy leads the volume Wiki
Writing: Collaborative Learning in the
College Classroom (University of Michigan
Press, 2008). He currently heads the
Digital Bridges initiative at Columbia's Center
for New Media Teaching and Learning.
Ph.D in Comparative
Literature, CUNY; M.A. in Poetry,
Antioch; M.A. in Music, Mills.
Lecturer, Cornell School of Visual
Arts. Robinson-Appels is the
recipient of two Fulbright
Fellowships, including a year in
residence at the Institute of
Philosophy and the Husserl
Archives in Belgium. He
specializes in early
twentieth-century modernism,
particularly the effects of
abstraction on literature, dance,
theatre, music, painting,
architecture, and physics. He also
works on gay and lesbian theory,
particularly seen through the
phenomenological analysis, and
issues in the medicalization of
AIDS. Articles inFlash
Art,Tableau,Artforum,Arts,
theYale
Journal of Criticism,Contemporary
Artists,Contemporary
Masterworks. Poems inGreen
Zero,Epoch,Caryatid,Odessa
Poetry Review.
Robinson-Appels is the Artistic
Director and choreographer of
Company Appels which he founded in
1979 as a vehicle to research
bodily poetics. The Company has
toured 17 countries on 3
continents and currently consists
of dancers from New York City
Ballet and American Ballet
Theatre.
Adjunct
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature
Specialization:
Homeric
poetry; Old English and Old Norse
poetry; ancient and medieval myth and
epic (especially Greek, Germanic and
Celtic); historical linguistics;
narrative
A.B.,
Harvard (1974); Ph.D., Harvard (1978).
At Columbia since joining the faculty of
English & Comparative Literature in
1978, and has also served as the
university's Director of Academic
Information Systems, and as Executive
Director of Information Technology and
Adjunct Professor of Management
Information Systems at the Business
School. Awards include fellowships
ranging from the NEH to the Dublin
Institute for Advanced Studies, as well
as a Distinguished Teaching Award from
Columbia's School of General Studies in
1983. Author ofThe
Traditional
Phrase in Homer: Two Studies in Form,
Meaning and Interpretation(Brill
1987),
as
well
as
articles
on
Greek,
Old
English and Old Norse poetry. Additional
areas of specialization include ancient
and medieval myth and epic (especially
Greek, Celtic and Germanic),
Indo-European linguistics and poetics
(again, especially Greek, Celtic and
Germanic, including English), and the
narrative strategies of epic. He is
nearing completion of a monograph on
mythic and poetic traditions inBeowulf,
and his current projects involve the
mythic and narrative strategies of the
Homeric poems and of Walcott'sOmeros.
Richard Sacks'swebsite.
B.A.,
Pomona; M.A., Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D.,
New York University. A comparatist,
Carole Slade works on continental
European literature, principally late
medieval prose and poetry from areas now
known as Spain, Italy, and France, as
well as modern drama and the novel from
the mid-19th to the early 20th century.
Her most recent publications include St. Teresa
of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life
(California, 1995); essays in Mysticism
and Social Transformation
(Syracuse, 2001) and The
Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval
Religious Literature (Palgrave,
2002); an article in Archive
for Reformation History (2003);
an edition of Don Quixote (Barnes
and Noble, 2004), an essay on teaching
St. Teresa's Life in the context of
western spiritual autobiography for the
MLA
Approaches to Teaching series
(2009), and several textbooks on writing
research papers. She brings to
study of literature her interests in
literary theory, gender studies,
religion, psychoanalysis, and
autobiography. Her current projects
include a book on spiritual
autobiography.
B.A.,
Williams College (1981), M.A.,
University of California,
Berkeley (1986), M.D.,
University of Connecticut
(1988). Stuart Taylor works on
psychoanalytic theory
especially Freud's, with
particular interests in the
problem of language,
subjectivity and discourses of
science, and the dialectic of
time. He also teaches at
Columbia's College of
Physicians and Surgeons and
Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research.
