Faculty Spotlight
NEWS FLASH:
BEN. SIFUENTES-JÁUREGUI, Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature has just received the Warren I. Susman award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013
Congratulations to the following faculty:
Core Faculty
KAREN BISHOP was appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
EDYTA BOJANOWSKA received the 2013-2014 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and will spend the year in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
ANDREW PARKER was appointed Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Rutgers
RICHARD SERRANO was promoted to Professor I in French
JANET WALKER received the SAS award for Distinction in Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Professor Category
Affiliate Faculty
PAOLA GAMBAROTA received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Italian
MARTHA HELFER was promoted to Professor I in German
Graduate Student Awards
Comparative Literature is proud ofTARA COLEMAN, winner of a 2012 Mellon Summer Research Grant;
BEN DE WITTE, winner of a Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant;
CAROLINE GODART, winner of a 2012-2013 Bevier Fellowship;
MARIA KAGER, winner of a 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship; also awarded the International James Joyce Foundation Fritz Senn Award to attend the XXIIIrd International James Joyce Symposium at Trininty University, Dublin
ALESSIO LERRO, winner of Bevier Fellowship for his dissertation "From baroque Chiaroscuro to Romantic Sublime: Images, Writing and Subjectivity in Tesauro, Vico, and Novalis"
MATTHEW MANGOLD, winner of of a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Advanced Russian at the KORA Center in Vladimir, Russia;
ENMANUEL MARTINEZ, winner of the 2012 Ford Foundation Fellowship, Predoctoral Competition;
JENNIFER RATERMAN, winner of 2012-2013 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship;
CAROLYN UREÑA, winner for Best Essay in a graduate seminar in the Department of German Studies;
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Introduction to Short Fiction 195:135:01; Index 98003; 12/24, 12/27-30, 1/3-7, 1/10-14 MTWThF – 9:00-12:00 PM SC-219; CAC Instructor: Neil Pischner In this course we will explore some of the world’s most incredible short fiction (short stories, novellas, film shorts). Covering the 19th and 20th centuries, our trip will immerse us in the bitter cold of Russian winter, the chaos of sprawling Cairo, the anguished yearning for romance in France, sadness and loneliness in Tokyo, social conflict over water scarcity in Andean Peru, and much more. You will experience the stunning prose of master authors, several of whom are Nobel Prize laureates. You will increase your capacity to both appreciate and interpret short fiction at its best which will help you find more nuanced meaning in the world around and within. ______________________________________________________________________________ World Mythology (Cancelled) 195:150:01; Index 98004 12/24, 12/27-30, 1/3-7, 1/10-14 MTWThF – 9:00-12:00 PM SC-221; CAC Instructor: Liesl Owens The aim of this course is to introduce students to a wide range of mythological and fictional texts (film, short story, poetry, novel) inspired by mythology and to theories on mythology from around the world. The study of myth explores how groups of people from different times and places experience and explain the nature of reality, set values, and determine what is known and how it is known. Students will examine how myths function culturally, historically, aesthetically, psychologically, philosophically, and politically. Students will also be introduced to basic reading techniques and interpretative methods which take into account the complexities of studying different cultures, reading texts translated from different languages, and working with artifacts from far distant eras. Students will further develop analytical and critical thinking skills, and will improve their writing skills. ______________________________________________________________________________ World Mythology 195:150:02; Index 98125 12/23, 12/27-30, 1/3-14 FIRST CLASS MEETS IN EVENING, 6:00-9:00 PM MTWThF – 1:00-4:00 PM SC-215; CAC Instructor: Sergey Toymentsev In this course offered by Comparative Literature Department myth is understood as narratives passed down from ancient times that continue to live in our consciousness. Such narratives provide us with perfect materials to study human beings’ understanding of themselves and their relationship with the external world. With such an understanding of myth in mind, we are going to read closely several mythical texts from both the Western and non-Western traditions, examine the relationship between these myths and human psyche, explore their influences on art, religion and philosophy, and study their roles in the development of human civilization in general. The goal of the course is to improve the students’ reading and analytical skills of both literary and theoretical texts as well as their writing skills, to initiate them into understanding cultural products contextually and provide them with new perspectives to understand the world and themselves. ______________________________________________________________________________ World Cinema II 195:321:06; Index 98233 12/23, 12/27-30, 1/3-7, 1/10-14 CLASS HELD IN WRITERS HOUSE MTWThF – 6:00-9:00 PM MU-003; CAC Instructor: Hugo Rios Credit not given for both this course and 01:354:321 This course will explore recent developments in World Cinema from the mid 1990’s to 2010. We will learn how to read and interpret, take notes and write about a film while exploring, analyzing and comparing a wide variety of cinematic expressions and traditions. We will work with the primary texts but also we are going to keep track of the historical and cultural backgrounds that produced them by means of secondary literature.
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