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ROBERT ALTER — Near Eastern Studies (Hebrew)
— teaches courses on the 19th-century European and American novel,
on modernism, and on literary aspects of the Bible, and he also teaches
and writes on modern Hebrew literature. His publications range from critical
biography (Stendhal) to literary theory (The Pleasures of Reading in
an Ideological Age) to two recent volumes of Bible translation accompanied
by literary commentary --Genesis and The David Story. His
forthcoming book is titled Recasting the Canon. (Ph.D.,
Harvard University) MICHAEL ANDRÉ BERNSTEIN — English —
works primarily on literature and history, high modernism, ethics and
literature, and prosaics. His course offerings frequently include Symbolist
and post-Symbolist Poetry, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marcel Proust,
James Joyce, Robert Musil and fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the European nineteenth
and twentieth century novels. His publications include Foregone Conclusions:
Against Apocalyptic History, Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and
the Abject Hero, and The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the
Modern Verse Epic. Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination
in Twentieth-Century German Writing is his most recent publication.
(D. Phil., Oxford University) KARL BRITTO — French — teaches courses
in modern French literature, particularly francophone colonial and postcolonial
literatures of Vietnam, Africa, and the Caribbean. His interests also
include anglophone colonial and postcolonial studies; theories of gender
and identity; and cultural studies. A book-length manuscript in preparation,
Disorientation: Interculturality and Identity in Vietnamese Francophone
Literature, examines Vietnamese francophone texts written from 1921
to 1990, focusing on intercultural identity. (Ph.D., Yale
University) JUDITH BUTLER — Rhetoric — teaches
in literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality
studies. She teaches various courses in Comparative Literature focusing
on 19th-20th century European literature and philosophy. Recent courses
have included a senior seminar on Kafka and another on loss, mourning,
and war. She is the author of several books, including Gender Trouble,
Bodies that Matter, The Psychic Life of Power, Antigone's
Claim, Precarious Life, and Undoing Gender. Her forthcoming
book is on narratives of the self and the problem of ethics. (Ph.D., Yale
University). ANTHONY J. CASCARDI — Rhetoric, Spanish
— works on literature and philosophy, aesthetics, and early modern
literature, with an emphasis on Spanish, English, and French. He is especially
interested in the Spanish Baroque and frequently teaches courses on Cervantes.
Most recently he published Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics
as Critique. He is currently working towards a book on emotion and
agency in art and is devising a new course on aesthetics, called "Speaking
of the Arts." (Ph.D., Harvard University) JOSEPH DUGGAN — French — specializes
in medieval epic, romance, and lyric poetry, and the theory and practice
of editing medieval texts. His publications include books on the Chanson
de Roland and the Cantar de mio Cid. His latest work is The
Romances of Chrétian de Troyes. He teaches a course on the medieval
book that draws on Berkeley's collection of medieval manuscripts. His
main interests are oral literature, theory of genres, and the relationship
between literature and social context. (Ph.D., Ohio State
University) ANNE-LISE FRANÇOIS — English —
works in the modern period, comparative romanticisms; lyric poetry; the
psychological novel and novel of manners; gender and critical theory;
literature and philosophy; and fashion and popular culture. She is currently
revising for publication Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted
Experience. Recent publications include The Seventies: The Age
of Glitter in Popular Culture. She has also published on falsetto
in seventies disco and on the "gentle force" of habit in Hume and Wordsworth.
(Ph.D., Princeton University) TIMOTHY HAMPTON — French — works on
Renaissance and early modern European culture, in both English and the
Romance languages. His research and teaching involve the relationship
between politics and culture, and focus on such issues as the ideology
of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, and the rhetoric
of historiography. He is the author of Garden of Letters: Literature
and Nationhood in Renaissance France. (Ph.D., Princeton
University) RALPH HEXTER — Classics — teaches Greek
and Roman literature as well as several of the literatures and cultures
of medieval and modern Europe. Among his special interests are the reception
and interpretation of what has come to be called the "classical tradition."
In current work, Professor Hexter is drawing on the insights and methods
of queer studies to analyze selected moments in the history of classical
studies. (Ph.D., Yale University) VICTORIA KAHN — Rhetoric — specializes
in Renaissance literature, rhetoric and poetics, early modern political
theory, and the Frankfurt School. Her forthcoming work and work-in-progress,
respectively, are a coedited collection entitled Rhetoric and Law in
Early Modern Europe and a book entitled The Romance of Contract:
Fictions of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674. (Ph.D., Yale
University) CHANA KRONFELD — Near Eastern Studies (Hebrew)
— teaches Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature with a special
emphasis on modern poetry. She is interested in modernism, minor literatures,
the politics of literary history, feminist stylistics, intertextuality,
and translation studies. Her book On the Margins of Modernism won
the MLA Scaglione Prize in 1998 for Best Book in Comparative Literary
Studies. Her co-translation (with Chana Bloch) of Yehuda Amichai's Open
Closed Open won the National Endowment for the Arts and the Marie
Syrkin Awards. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) LESLIE KURKE — Classics — has specialties
that span archaic and classical Greek literature and cultural history,
with special emphasis on archaic Greek poetry in its social context, Herodotus
and early prose, the constitution of ideology through material practices,
and the relations of economics and literature. Her most recent book is
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic
Greece. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship for the years 1999-2004,
and plans to use the funding to pursue a project on Aesop and Greek popular
culture. (Ph.D., Princeton University) MICHAEL LUCEY — French — specializes
in French literature and culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
He also teaches about nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature
and culture, and twentieth-century American literature and culture. Other
areas of interest include sexuality studies; social and literary theory;
cultural studies of music. He is the author of Gide's Bent: Sexuality,
Politics, Writing; he is currently completing a book on the place
of sexuality in Balzac’s novels, The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and
the Social Forms of Sexuality, and another book on the development
of strategies for writing about queer sexualities in the literary field
of twentieth-century France. (Ph.D., Princeton University)
FRANCINE MASIELLO (Department Chair) — Spanish
— works on topics related to Latin American literature of the 19th
and 20th centuries, gender theory, and comparative North/South literatures.
Most recently she has developed projects on globalization and culture.
Her books include Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation,
and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina. Scripts, Maps, and Markets,
a book on Latin American culture and neoliberalism, is her most recent
work. (Ph.D., University of Michigan) KATHLEEN MCCARTHY — Classics — specializes
in the social and cultural analysis of Latin poetry. Her recent book,
Slavery and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy, offers a new
analysis of the potential subversiveness of this early body of dramatic
comedy, focusing especially on the paradoxical desire of each audience
member to inhabit simultaneously the positions of rebel and authority
figure. Her current work centers on the political and social functions
of Augustan love elegy. (Ph.D., Princeton University) JAMES T. MONROE — Near Eastern Studies (Arabic)
— works in the areas of lyric poetry, the Middle Ages, and East-West
relations with particular interest in the importance of the Arab contribution
to Spanish civilization. He has published numerous books and articles
in the field of Arabic literature with special emphasis on its Hispano-Arabic
component, including Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern
Oral Tradition: Music and Texts, with Benjamin M. Liu, and The
Art of Badi az-Zaman al-Hamadhani as Picaresque Narrative. (Ph.D.,
Harvard University) ERIC NAIMAN — Slavic (Russian) — works
in the fields of ideological poetics, sexuality and history, history of
medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Platonov,
and Mikhail Bakhtin. His most recent book is Sex in Public: The Incarnation
of Early Soviet Ideology. He is currently working on Nabokov, Perversely
and Monumental Intimacy: The Art of Healing and the Art of Terror.
(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) MIRYAM SAS — East Asian Languages (Japanese)
— teaches and writes about 20th century poetry, experimental theater,
memory and trauma, mass media and cultural studies, and film with an emphasis
in Japanese literature and culture. Her most recent book is Fault Lines:
Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism. She is currently working
on the topics of performative memory and Japanese theater since the 1960s,
Japanese avant-garde butoh dance, and the American theater director Peter
Sellars. (Ph.D., Yale University) BARBARA SPACKMAN — Italian — has teaching
and research interests in gender studies and feminist theory, psychoanalysis,
narrative, fascism and culture, European Decadence, and travel writing.
She is the author of Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness
from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio and Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric,
Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy, winner of the 1998 MLA Howard
Marraro and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes. She is working on a study
of travel writing and geopolitical fantasy in Italy, as well as on a comparative
project on ideological fantasy at the fin-de-siècle. (Ph.D.,
Yale University) SOPHIE VOLPP — East Asian Languages and Cultures
(Chinese) — writes about Chinese literature of the seventeenth
through nineteenth centuries. Teaching and research interests include
material culture and the history of consumption, gender theory, the history
of sexuality, performance studies, and the study of autobiography. Her
forthcoming book, Worldly Stage, examines the ideological niche
occupied by the theater in seventeenth-century China. Her present project
focuses on the representation of objects and the history of consumption.
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