ÿþ<HTML> <TITLE>David A. Goldfarb: Curriculum Vitae</TITLE> <H1><IMG SRC="cv.gif" WIDTH=70 HEIGHT=70 HSPACE=3>David A. Goldfarb: Curriculum Vitae</H1> <BODY> Welcome to David Goldfarb's brief Curriculum Vitae with links to full-text versions of selected <A HREF="#[publications]"><B>publications and reviews</B></A>, <A HREF="#[conference]"><B>conference papers</B></A>, and <A HREF="#[syllabi]"><B>course syllabi</B></A>, highlighted in boldface. In cases where publications are not available online, selected links are provided for print journals and publishers. I have omitted additional information such as works in progress, awards, professional service, references, other areas of interest, etc. to keep the site managable. Some of the available articles are under copyright by the journals in which they appear; thus, they are offered here only for personal, classroom and scholarly use, but not for republication. If you wish to cite or quote any of these papers in scholarly works, please check the printed versions for accuracy.<P> If you would like to discuss any of the materials here, please contact me by regular mail at the address below or <A HREF="mailto:davidagoldfarb@gmail.com"><B>e-mail me</B></A> at: <ADDRESS>davidagoldfarb@gmail.com.</ADDRESS><P> <IMG SRC="rule.gif" ALT="________________________________________"> <H2>David A. Goldfarb<BR> <P> <HR> <H4>EDUCATION</H4> <HR><UL> <LI> 1991-1999: <a href="http://www.gc.cuny.edu/"><B>CUNY</B></a>, Ph.D., <a href="http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Complit/"><B>Department of Comparative Literature</B></a>. Dissertation: "The Discourse of the 'Primitive' in Eastern and Western European Modernism," <a href="http://web.gc.cuny.edu/anthropology/fac_crapanzano.html"><B>Prof. Vincent Crapanzano</B></a>, adviser. <LI> 1990/1991: <a href="http://www.toronto.edu/"><B>University of Toronto</B></a>, M.A., <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/"><B>Slavic Languages and Literatures</B></a>, specializing in <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/polish/"><B>Polish Literature</B></a>. Thesis: "StanisBaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's Dialogue with Western European Modernism," Prof. Louis Iribarne, adviser. <LI> Spring 1990: Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, Slavic Department. <LI> 1986-1989: <A HREF="http://www.cornell.edu"><B>Cornell University</B></A>, B.A., magna cum laude, Philosophy. Honors thesis: "Ideology and Morality", Prof. Richard Boyd, adviser. <LI> 1984-1986: <A HREF="http://www.deepsprings.edu"><B>Deep Springs College</B></A><BR> Deep Springs, established in 1917, is a small non-sectarian college in the California High Desert, where students participate in a rigorous program of academics, labor and self-government. </UL> <A NAME="[publications]"></A><H4><IMG SRC="pub.gif"> PUBLICATIONS</H4><HR><UL> <LI>"<a href="http://jewishquarterly.org/2011/06/appropriations-of-bruno-schulz/"><b>Appropriations of Bruno Schulz</b></a>." <a href="http://jewishquarterly.org"><b><I>Jewish Quarterly</I></b></a> <a href="http://jewishquarterly.org/series/218-spring-11/"><b>218 (Summer 2011)</b></a>. <LI>"Eksplozja sBowa" ("Word Explosion"). <a href="http://www.universitas.com.pl/ksiazka/2475"><b><I>Gombrowicz, nasz wspóBczesny</I></b></a>. Ed. Jerzy Jarzbski. Cracow: <a href="http://www.universitas.com.pl/"><B>Universitas</B></a>, 2010. 706-13. <LI> PaBuby in Bruno Schulz s Workshop. <a href="http://www.akademicka.pl/cgi-local/start.pl?kom=pokaz&isbn=83-7676-018-6&uid=0"><b><I>Bruno Schulz: New Readings, New Meanings</I></b></a>. Bruno Schulz: Nouvelles Lectures, Nouvelles Significations</I>. Ed. StanisBaw Latek. Cracow: Polska Akademia Umiejtno[ci, 2009. 85-94. <LI><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143105145,00.html#"><B>Introduction. Bruno Schulz. <I>The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories</I>. Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer. Translated by Celina Wieniewska. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin, 2008.</B></a> <LI><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781593082611&itm=5"><B>Introduction and Notes. Ivan Turgenev. <I>Fathers and Sons</I>. Tr. Constance Garnett. Barnes and Noble Classics. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2007.</B></A> <LI><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2U53E4KNX9&isbn=1593080697&itm=1"><B>Introduction and Notes. Leo Tolstoy. <I> The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories</I>. Barnes and Noble Classics. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2004.</B></A> <LI> The Polish Poet: Traveler, Exile, Expatriate, World Citizen. <A HREF="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/ulbandus/"><B><I>Ulbandus</I></B></A>. 7 (2003). 155-73. <LI> Gogol s Cornucopia: Dead Souls and Arcimboldo. <I>American Contributions to the International Congress of Slavists</I>. Ed. Robert Maguire. Bloomington, Ind.: <a href="http://www.slavica.com"><B>Slavica</B></a>, 2003. 85-98. <LI> Gombrowicz s Binoculars: The View from Abroad. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821414372?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0821414372"><B><I>Framing the Polish Home</I>. Ed. Bozena Shallcross. Ohio University Press. 2001.</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0821414372" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> 301-16. <LI><A HREF="http://www.bu.uni.torun.pl/Archiwum_Emigracji/Goldfarb.htm"> <B>Expressionism and the Visual in Józef Wittlin s Hymn of Hatred</B>. </A> <A HREF="http://www.bu.uni.torun.pl/Archiwum_Emigracji/linki/wittst.htm"> <I><B>Between Lvov, New York, and Ulysses Ithaca. Józef Wittlin--Poet, Essayist, Novelist</B></I>.</A> Ed. Anna Frajlich-Zajac. Torun and New York: Nicholas Copernicus University and Columbia University, 2001. 75-90. <LI> Zbigniew Herbert s Provincial Intuition. <A HREF="http://www.slavica.com/iss/iss9_shallcross_ed.html"><B><I>Indiana Slavic Studies</I>. 9 (1998)</B></A>, 79-96. <LI> <A HREF="douglas.htm">"<B>Marion Douglas</B>."</A> <I>The Facts on File Resource Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Theater Arts and Entertainment</I>. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. V. 9. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997. 92-94. <LI><A HREF="schulz-eliot.htm">"<B>The Vortex and the Labyrinth: Bruno Schulz and the Objective Correlative.</B>"</A> <I>East European Politics and Societies</I>. 11:2 (1997). 257-69. <LI> <A HREF="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v020/20.1goldfarb.html">"<B>Lermontov and the Omniscience of Narrators</B>."</A> <I>Philosophy and Literature</I>. 20:1 (1996). 61-73. [Also included in <I>Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism</I>. Vol. 126. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. New York: Thomson/Gale. 2003. 199-204.] <LI> <A HREF="schulz.htm">"<B>A Living Schulz: The Night of the Great Season</B>."</A> <I>Prooftexts</I>. 14:1 (1994). 25-47. <LI> "Czytajc Schulza: Noc wielkiego sezonu" ("Reading Schulz: The Night of the Great Season"). Tr. Adam Janiszewski. <I>Kresy</I> (Lublin) 13 (1993). 15-21. <LI> <A HREF="douglas.htm">"<B>Marion Douglas</B>."</A> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195156773?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0195156773"><b><I>Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia</I>. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. 2 vols. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1993.</b></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0195156773" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> 346-47. <LI> <A HREF="masochis.htm">"<B>Masochism and Catastrophe in Witkiewicz's <I>Insatiability</I></B>."</A> <I>The Polish Review</I>. 37 (1992), 217-27. </UL> <H4>REVIEWS</H4><HR><UL> <LI> Witkacy 2010 in Washington, D.C. <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>. 31:1 (Spring 2011), 53-61. <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Esarmatia/411/411goldfa.pdf"><b>Roman Koropeckyj. <I>Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic</I></b></A>. <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Esarmatia/"><b><I>The Sarmatian Review</I></b></A> 31:2 (2011), 1581-83. <LI> Witkacy 2009, London <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>. 29:3 (Fall 2009), 58-65. <LI> Piotr Wilczek. (Mis)translation and (Mis)interpretation: Polish Literature in the Context of Cross-Cultural Communication. Literary and Cultural Theory, Vol. 22. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. <I>SEEJ</I>. 52.2 (Summer 2008). <LI> Witold Gombrowicz: Ferdydurke. <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>. 20:2 (2000), 55-59. <LI> "Revelation and Camouflage: Polish Cinema from 1930 to the Present--Symposium." <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I> 16:2 (1996), 40-43. <LI> "<I>Ivona, Princess of Burgundia</I> at Columbia University." <I>Slavic and European Performance</I> 16:1 (1996), 65-67. <LI> "The Comic Struggle for Ideology after Communism: 'La Petite Apocalypse," Costa-Gavras and 'The Convert,' Kazimierz Kutz," <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>, 15:5 (1995), 58-62. <LI> "<A HREF="encyc.htm"><B><I>Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms</I> (Toronto), <I>The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics</I>, <I>The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism</I></B></A>." <I>Conference</I>. 5:2 (1995), 95-99. <LI> "<A HREF="kbraun.htm"><B>`Polish Theatre: From the Shadow of the Communist Past to the Challenges of the Democratic Future,' A Lecture by Kazimierz Braun, 28 April 1994, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center</B></A>." <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>. 14:2 (1994), 29-31. <LI> "<A HREF="addict.htm"><B>The Decadentism of Theory: Addiction and Postmodernism." Review of Richard Klein, <I>Cigarettes are Sublime</I> and Avital Ronell, <I>Crack Wars: Literature/Addiction/Mania</I></B></A>. <I>Conference: a journal of philosophy and theory</I> 5:1 (1994), 91-98. <LI> "<A HREF="cintrans.htm"><B>Cinema in Transition: Recent Films from East and Central Europe--Symposium</B></A>." <I>Slavic and East European Performance</I>. 13:2 (1993), 51-54. </UL> <A NAME="[translations]"></A><H4> TRANSLATIONS</H4><HR><UL> <LI>Wittlin, Józef.  Hymn of Hatred. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8323112460?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=8323112460"><b><I>Józef Wittlin and Modern Polish and Polish-American Poetry, A Commemorative Anthology</I>. Ed. Piotr Gwiazda. New York: Polish Cultural Institute, 2001,</b></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=8323112460" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> 9-13. <LI>Stern, Anatol, and Wat, Aleksander.  primitivists to the nations of the world and to poland. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803264070?ie=UTF8&tag=davagol-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0803264070"><B><I>Manifesto: A Century of Isms.</I> Ed. Mary Ann Caws. Lincoln, Nebraska: U. of Nebraska Pr./Bison Books, 2001.</B></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=davagol-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0803264070" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> 100-101.</UL> <A NAME="[conference]"></A><H4><IMG SRC="lec.gif"> CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES</H4><HR><UL> <LI>"Witkacy, Masochism, 'Pure Form,' and the Sublime." Panel: "New Approaches to the Sublime." AAASS, Los Angeles, November 2010. <LI> Witkacy and the Sublime: The Dominant Woman Reconsidered. <a href="http://www.witkacy2010.com/"><B>Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives</B></a>. Washington, D.C., April 2010. <LI>"<I>Fircyk</I>: The Overdressed Pole from the Renaissance to the Cold War." Seminar: "Clothing: Re-Creating Our Own Image in a World of Mass Production." <a href="http://www.acla.org"><B>ACLA</B></a>, New Orleans, April 2010. <LI>"Witkacy s <i>Shoemakers</i> as High Anti-Stalinism." Panel: "Cultural Tectonics: Reading Beneath the Surface of the 1930s." MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009. <LI> Bruno Schulz and the Submissive Self. AAASS, Boston, November 2009. <LI> Witkacy and Socialist Realism in Pre-Communist Poland. <a href="http://www.witkacy2009.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=14"><b>Witkacy as a Social and Political Visionary</b></a>, The University of Westminster, London, September 2009. <LI> The Sublime in the Austro-Hungarian Oilfields: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Bruno Schulz. ACLA, Harvard Univ., March 2009. <LI> Sacher-Masoch, Masochism, and the Sublime in the Polish Interwar Avant-garde. <a href="http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/calendar/detail.php?ID=1767"><B>The Pain of Words</B></A>. Princeton, May 2008. <LI> Bruno Schulz: Entering the Labyrinth. Miami University, Oxford Ohio. February 2008. <LI> <i>Zdrój</i>: Polish Expressionism from the Source. Graphic Modernism Lecture Series. New York Public Library. December 2007. <LI> Defunct Taxonomies: Bruno Schulz s Aviary. Keynote Lecture.  The World of Bruno Schulz/Bruno Schulz and the World: Influences, Similarities, Reception Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, May 2007. <LI> <I>Paluby</I> in Bruno Schulz s Workshop. Bruno Schulz: New Readings, New Meanings. McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada, May 2007. <LI> Sacher-Masoch: Between the Romantic and the Decadent Sublime. A Leap from the Temple of Culture into the Abyss: Decadence in Central and Eastern Europe. Columbia University, March 2007. <LI>Panelist. Symposium on Bruno Schulz with the Double Edge Theatre. CUNY Graduate Center, February 2007. <LI>Panelist.  Polish Literature and Comparative Literature. AAASS, Washington, D. C., November 2006. <LI> <i>Powrót</i>, or Two Tales of Rip van Winkle. Adam Zagajewski: A to Z. University of Chicago, April 2006. <LI> Defunct Taxonomies:  The Birds of Bruno Schulz. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 2006. <LI> Sadomasochism in Central Europe with Malynne Sternstein (University of Chicago), Minor Slavic Cultures Workshop, Council on Advanced Studies, University of Chicago, October 2005.<LI> Bruno Schulz--Whose Property? AAASS, Boston, December 2004. <LI> `The Liquid Which is the Principle of Pleasure': Sade, Sacher-Masoch, and Mechanistic Aesthetics. Beauty: Looking in the Eye of the Beholder. Department on Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, November 2004. <LI> Word Explosion. International Conference-- Witold Gombrowicz: Nasz wspólczesny. Institute of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, March 2004. <LI> Gombrowicz s View. Conference on the book, <I>Framing the Polish Home</I>. Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, November 2003. <LI> The Polish Poet: Traveler, Exile, Expatriate, World Citizen. Barnard Forum on Migration. Barnard College, April 2003. <LI> Axis: Poland-Afghanistan. MLA, New York, December 2002. <LI>Panelist. Discussion with Tadeusz Konwicki. Anthology Film Archives, New York, November 2002. <LI>Moderator. Evening with Roma Ligocka, author of <I>The Girl in the Red Coat</I>. Polish Consulate, New York, November 2002. <LI>Panelist. Discussion of <I>The Hourglass Sanatorium</I> by Wojciech Has. City Cinematheque. CUNY TV, November 2002. <LI> Beyond <I>Venus in Furs</I>: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the Russian Novel, and Ethnography. Department of Comparative Literature. CUNY Graduate Center, October 2002. Introduction. Evening of Polish-American Poetry. New York Public Library, October 2002. <LI> Polish and Russian Women Writers Reactions to the Cinema of the Avantgarde Period. BASEES Twetieth-century Literature Study Group, Mansfield College, Oxford, September 2002. <LI>Panelist,  Intellectual Life in East Central Europe After 1989. The Institute for the Study of Europe, Columbia University, May 2002. <LI> <I>Fircyk</I>: The Cultural Semiotics of the Overdressed Pole (extended version of paper listed below). Faculty Works in Progress Series. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, April 2002. <LI> Witkacy s Tropic Discourse: From Petersburg to Australia and Rangoon. British-French Association for the Study of Russian Culture. Surrey University, Guildford, U.K., April 2002. <LI> The beautiful sovereign of five million slaves: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Catherine the Great. BASEES, Cambridge, U.K., April 2002. <LI> Witkacy and the Primitive: Self as Other. The Other in Polish Theatre and Drama. Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 2002. <LI> The Foppish Pole in the Renaissance and Beyond. Clothing Culture. Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, December 2001. <LI> <I>Fircyk</I>: The Cultural Semiotics of the Overdressed Pole. BASEES, Cambridge, U.K., April 2001. <LI> Leopold von Sacher Masoch: The Austrian Writer in his Slavic Context. Columbia University Seminar on Slavic Languages and Cultures. February 2001. <LI> Bondage and the Frame. MLA, Washington, D. C., December 2000. <LI> Czeslaw Milosz: California Poet. 75th Anniversary Conference, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York, November 2000. <LI> The Nineteenth-Century Russian Roots of Soviet Marxist-Leninism. Marx on Mondays. Lecture Series at Barnard College, November 2000. <LI> Polish Self-fashioning and the Russian Image of the Foppish Pole. Polonophilia/Polonophobia, International Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, September 2000. <LI> The Temporality of Architecture: The Building of Kataev s Factory. Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, AAASS, Princeton Univ., March 2000. <LI> Polish Literature and Culture. Poland 2000: A Conference for Educators. The East Central European Center, Columbia Univ., March 2000. <LI> Witold Gombrowicz s Room with a View. AAASS, St. Louis, November 1999. <LI>Respondent,  Constructing Identity in Space. AAASS, St. Louis, November 1999. <LI> Theodor W. Adorno: The Composition of Philosophy. MLA, San Francisco, December 1998. <LI>Respondent,  Medical Hermeneutics. MLA, San Francisco, December 1998. <LI> Gombrowicz s Binoculars. Home/less: The Polish Experience, International Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, December 1998. <LI> Witold Gombrowicz: At Home in Exile. Director s Seminar. Harriman Institute, Columbia University, November 1998. <LI> Bigos. Evening Commemorating the 200th Birthday Anniversary of Adam Mickiewicz. Polish Consulate, New York, October 1998. <LI>Panelist, Faculty Debate on the Nature, History, and Direction of Comparative Literature. CUNY Graduate Center, October 1998. <LI> Zbigniew Herbert s Provincial Intuition: Essays on Art and Travel. Indiana University, Bloomington, July 1998. <LI>"<I>Krzyk</I> (<I>The Cry</I>): Unmediated Expression in Polish Poetry and the Visual Arts." AAASS, Seattle, November 1997. <LI>"Eastern Europe Discovers the New World: The Czech Translation of Jean de L&eacute;ry's <I>Voyage to the Land of Brazil</I>." AATSEEL, Washington, D.C., December 1996. <LI>"Zbigniew Herbert's Provincial Perspective." AAASS, Boston, November 1996. <LI>"Expressionism and the Visual in J&oacute;zef Wittlin's Early Poems." J&oacute;zef Wittlin (1896-1976): New Perspectives. Ko&sacute;ciuszko Foundation and Columbia University, September 1996. <LI> "Gogol's Corucopia: <I>Dead Souls</I> and Arcimboldo." MLA, Chicago, 1995. <LI> "The Vortex and the Labyrinth: Bruno Schulz and the Objective Correlative." AAASS, Washington, D.C., November 1995. <LI> "Narrative Necessity and the Problem of Future Contingents in Lermontov's <I>Geroi nashego vremeni</I>." New England Slavic Conference, AAASS, Harvard University, March 1995. <LI> "<A HREF="u-ground.htm"><B>Kant's Aesthetics in Dostoevsky's <I>Notes from Underground</I></B></A>." Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, AAASS, Columbia University, 18 March 1995. <LI> "<A HREF="mal-wtkc.htm"><B>Argonauts of the Western Pacific: S. I. Witkiewicz and Bronislaw Malinowski</B></A>." AAASS, Philadelphia, November 1994. Second Place winner of CLAGS/CUNY Student Paper Awards <LI> "<A HREF="distance.htm"><B>Critical Distance: The Psychology of Criticism and the Poetry of A. R. Ammons</B></A>." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 1993. <LI> "Jewish Sources of Schulz's Mythology." Symposium on Bruno Schulz. University of Toronto. October 1992. <LI> "Witkacy and the Primitive: <I>Tworzenie Swiata</I> (The Creation of the World)." 50th Annual Congress of the PIASA. Yale University. June 1992. <LI> "<A HREF="sovwest.htm"><B>The Soviet Novel and the Western</B></A>." Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University. "Popular Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Scholarship." November 1990. </UL> <A NAME="[syllabi]"></A><H4><IMG SRC="syl.gif">TEACHING AND OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE</H4>NB: Syllabi linked below represent one version of a course offered in a particular term. Readings and assignments are subject to change from semester to semester. Some older courses are linked to updated syllabi. Unfortunately, not all Slavic diacritics appear in the online versions of these syllabi.<HR><UL> <LI><a href="http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/"><B>Polish Cultural Institute</B></a>, Curator of Literature and Humanities, Editor, (June 2010-date) <P>Cultural diplomacy, organizing events, author appearances and tours, conferences, panel discussions, and exhibitions to foster intellectual and cultural exchange between the U.S. and Poland. Connecting Polish writers with translators, publishers, and residency opportunities. House editor for all English language materials.</P> <LI><a href="http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/"><B>Freie Universität Berlin</B></a>, Co-Author (with Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy) and Co-Tutor (2005, 2008) <UL><LI><A HREF="http://www.ees-online.org"><B>East European Studies Online</B></A> <UL><LI><A HREF="http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/fsg03/humanities.htm"><B>Humanities Module</B> (Russian, FSU, and East European Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Period)</A>, SP05, SP08</UL></UL><BR> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.barnard.edu"><B>Barnard College</B></A>, <A HREF="http://www.columbia.edu"><B>Columbia University</B></A>, Assistant Professor, Slavic Department (1998-2007). <UL> <LI>Undergraduate courses: <UL> <LI><a href="death.htm"><B>Barnard First Year Seminar: Death</B></a>, FA98, SP00, SP01 <P>What is death? This question, which is the historical root of many current questions in philosophy and the humanities in general, can only be answered by first asking what is life. What are consciousness, the relation between mind and body, and the nature of Being, and how do we define personal and cultural identity? In this course we consider ways of answering these questions in philosophical works by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Daniel Dennett, and Jane Gallop, literary texts including <I>The Epic of Gilgamesh</I>, works by Baudelaire, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Carlos Fuentes, and Samuel R. Delany, as well as the autobiographical photographs of Jo Spence, and a film by Derek Jarman.</P> <LI><a href="eeprose.htm"><B>Postwar East European Prose</B></a>, FA99 <P>This course will consider narrative strategies for coping with the East European condition--if such a single condition may be said to exist--from World War II through the period of Soviet hegemony to the present. While Soviet oppression and influence, and state censorship raise obvious issues in this literature, we will also try to view the cultures of Eastern Europe as distinct entities with particular histories, cultural identities, and intellectual traditions. As such, we will compare the effects of the double marginalization of Eastern Europe--being neither fully Soviet nor fully "European"--in several of its states in this century. Other issues to be discussed include: the residue of the Second World War, feminism in the context of Eastern Europe, ethnic identity, and intellectualism. Works by authors such as Tadeusz Borowski, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Konwicki, Christa Wolf, Gyorgy Konrad, Miklos Haraszti, Danilo Kis, Milorad Pavic, Milan Kundera, Josef Skvorecky, Tereza Bouckova, and others.</P> <LI><a href="r19.htm"><b>Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose</b></a>, FA00 <P>A survey of works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and others.</P> <LI><a href="r20.htm"><b>Twentieth-Century Russian Prose</b></a>, SP99, SP00 <P>A survey of prose works by Bely, Babel, Kataev, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Sinyavski, Baranskaya, Voinovich, and others.</P> <LI><a href="td.htm"><b>Tolstoy and Dostoevsky</b></a>, SP03, SP04, SP05 <P><I>War And Peace</I>, at least one longer work of Dostoevsky, and several shorter works by the two great Russian novelists.</P> <LI><a href="sm.htm"><b>Sade/Masoch: Literature of Domination and Submission</b></a>, SP99, SP01, FA02 <P>Before the names of the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch became synonyms for sexual psychopathology, their works functioned as part of a discourse of political freedom and slavery in which philosophy and sexually explicit narrative frequently overlapped. This course will attempt to recover the pre-psychoanalytic context of these works, in light of that reconstruction to reassess the major currents in the psychological theory of sado-masochism, and to consider literary works written in the tradition of Sade and Sacher-Masoch in the wake of psychoanalytic theory. The texts will raise questions of gender and power, psychology and politics, the theory of the Sublime, narration and staging, nationalism, race, sexual identity, and socio-economic class.</P> <P>Primary readings will include novels by Sade, Sacher-Masoch, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, and Samuel R. Delany. Frameworks for interpretation will be developed from works by Immanuel Kant, Robert Darnton, Wanda von Sacher-Masoch, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, Roy Baumeister, John Money, Robert Stolerow, Paula J. Caplan, and Lynda Hart.</P> <LI><a href="juniorcolloquium.htm"><B>Barnard Junior Colloquium in Comparative Literature</B></a>, SP04, SP05, SP06, FA06 <P>Survey of literary theory and criticism from the classical period to the present day.</P> <LI>Barnard Senior Colloquium in Comparative Literature (co-taught), SP04 <P>Senior thesis workshop</P> </UL> <LI>Graduate courses: <UL> <LI>Proseminar in Russian Literature, FA05, FA06 <P>Required for all candidates for the M.A. degree in Russian, Czech, and Polish literature. Introduction to the theory and practice of literary criticism.</P> <LI><a href="ineffable.htm"><b>Seminar in Literary Theory: The Ineffable</b></a>, FA98, SP01 <P> In <I>Negative Dialectics</I>, Theodor Adorno declares paradoxically that philosophy is untranslatable. If the philosopher s task is, as Plato says,  to grasp what is the same in all respects, or to discern essences, it would seem that the philosopher would be the best translator there could be. What is untranslatable for Adorno, however, is not the content of philosophy but its  texture, composition, or the enactment of what was for Plato a dialectical search for truth or essence. In this course we will consider ways that critics might attempt to address the untranslatable, indescribable, and the unspeakable. Possible solutions range from the theories of the sublime, to critical performance or process, to psychoanalysis and phenomenologies of reading. Readings are likely to include works by Adorno, Longinus, Philostratus the Elder, Kant, Walter Pater, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Ingarden, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Blanchot.</P> <LI><a href="marxist.htm"><b>Marxist Cultural Theory</b></a>, SP00, SP06 <P>Is there an inherent relation between the material conditions of social life and the historical prevalence of specific aesthetic forms? If so, what are the mechanisms of mediation between political economy and art or literature? The course will consider how marxist critics have attempted to answer these central questions in works by Marx, Engels, Gyorgy Lukacs, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Frederic Jameson and Jacques Derrida, Christopher Caudwell, Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Georgii Plekhanov, Leon Trotsky, and V. N. Voloshinov, as well as Lenin's statements on literature and some documents from the rise of Soviet Socialist Realism. Of particular interest will be the ways in which different strands of marxist theory have reflected other intellectual tendencies, such as positivism, nineteenth-century Russian radicalism, modernism, and postmodernism.</P> <LI><a href="gsm.htm"><B>Sade/Masoch: Literature, Theory, and History</B></a>, SP02, FA04, SP07 <P> An attempt to recover the pre-psychoanalytic context of the works of the Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, to reassess major currents in the psychological theory of sado-masochism, and to consider works written in the tradition of Sade and Sacher-Masoch in the wake of psychoanalytic theory. Knowledge of French and/or German recommended.</P> <LI><a href="pren.htm"><b>Renaissance Poetry in Poland: From Latin to Polish</b></a>, SP99, SP03 <P>Eastern Europe is largely unexplored territory for renaissance scholars outside the region, and the Latin literature of Poland is often neglected by Polonists who do not specialize in the literature of the 15th-17th Centuries. During this age, however, Poland, which maintained strong cultural and political ties with Italy and could boast of several close correspondants with Erasmus, was as fertile a place for the emergence of humanism as any other country in Europe. Though Copernicus may be the only widely known Polish renaissance figure outside Poland, he could not likely have revolutionized the sciences of astronomy and cosmology had he not been surrounded by comparable developments in politics, philosophy, historiography, literature, music, architechture, and the visual arts. In this course we will focus specifically on poetry and the development of modern Polish literary language, style and culture from its Latin and neo-Latin influences. Authors likely to be included are Ioannes Visliciensis (Jan z Wislicy), Hussovianus (Hussowczyk), Dantiscus (Dantyszek), Andrzej Krzycki (Cricius), Sarbevius (Sarbiewski), Biernat of Lublin, Jan Kochanowski (Cochanovius), Mikolaj Rej, Sep-Szarzynski, and others. Prerequisite: Working knowledge of Latin or Polish.</P> <LI><a href="pnovel.htm"><b>The Polish Novel</b></a>, FA00, FA03 <P>A consideration of the evolution of the novel form in Polish literature from the Baroque memoir through the Enlightenment, Positivism, modernism, and the avantgardists of the Twentieth Century. Students should read in the original if possible, but all works will be available in translation. Papers will be written in English.</P> <LI>Polish Drama, FA06 <p>Polish Drama has been a rich field of experimentation from the early twentieth century through the present day, and this spirit of radicalism has made the Polish theatre an attractive area of study for theatre specialists who are not primarily Slavists. At the same time, this innovative culture of performance has roots that reach to the Renaissance in Poland. This course will establish those foundations and will explore the new traditions and currents of experimentalism in Polish theatre. The content of the course will be oriented to take advantage of current performances of Polish drama or by Polish ensembles in New York City. The reading list is subject to change, based on the linguistic abilities, experience, and needs of the students enrolled in the course, and as opportunities to view live performances arise.</p> <LI><a href="promanticism.htm"><b>Poland, Romanticism, and Polish Romanticism</b></a>, FA05 <P>A survey of the major literary works of Polish Romantics with some attention to music, philosophy, and the visual arts in the context of Romanticism more broadly and the general European obsession with  The Polish Question, or the political status of Poland under the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Partitions. Students should read in the original if possible, but all works will be available in translation. Papers will be written in English. Undergraduates should have at least one other course in literature.</P> <LI>Mickiewicz, SP01 <P>A survey of works by Poland's great Romantic poet.</P> <LI><a href="pavantgard.htm"><b>Polish Avantgardism</b></a>, FA99, SP02 <P>This course will investigate avant-garde movements in literature and the arts in Poland from the end of the Nineteenth Century to the Second World War. To the greatest extent possible given local resources, we will attempt to work with texts as they originally appeared in journals and first editions, with the goal of developing a feel for the vibrant interdisciplinary modernist culture of pre-Communist Poland. Members of the seminar will participate in a bibliographic research project to evaluate the contents of libraries and collections in the city, will present the results of this research in oral and written form, and will write a critical paper using materials derived from the research of the group.</P> <LI>Bruno Schulz, FA04 <P>A course in close reading of the literary and graphic works of Bruno Schulz.</P> <LI>Directed Research in Literary Translation, SP04 <P>A practical workshop in translation of Polish literary texts.</P> </UL></UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu"><B>New York University</B></A>, Instructor in Individualized Study (Spring 1998) <UL><LI><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/"><b>Gallatin School of Individualized Study</b></a> <UL><LI>The Artist/Intellectual and the State, SP98</UL></UL><BR> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu"><B>Hunter College</B></A> (CUNY), Adjunct Lecturer (Fall 1994-Spring 1998) <UL><LI> Program in Comparative Literature <UL><LI><a href="primitivism.htm"><b>Primitivism: Literature and Ethnography</b></a>, SP98 (cross-listed in Anthropology) <LI><a href="sublime.htm"><B>Art for Art's Sake: The Theory of the Sublime</B></a>, SP97 (cross-listed in Philosophy) <LI><a href="marxist.htm"><b>Marxist Cultural Theory</b></a>, F96 (cross-listed in Russian and Philosophy) </UL> <LI> Russian and Polish Divisions, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies <UL><LI> <A HREF="modern.htm"><B>Polish Modernism (Course cancelled due to budget constraints. Syllabus listed for reference.)</B></A> <LI> <A HREF="r19.htm"><B>Nineteenth Century Russian Literature in Translation</B></A>, FA/94, SP/95 <LI> <A HREF="td.htm"><B>Tolstoy and Dostoevsky</B></A>, FA/95 </UL></UL><BR> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.qc.edu"><B>Queens College</B></A> (CUNY), Teaching Fellow (1992-93), Adjunct Lecturer (Summer 1993 to Summer 1997). <UL><LI> Department of Comparative Literature, <UL><LI> <A HREF="cl101.htm"><B>Great Books I (pre-Renaissance)</B></A>, FA/92, SU/93, FA/93, SU/95, SU/97 <LI> <A HREF="cl102.htm"><B>Great Books II (Renaissance to contemporary)</B></A>, SP/93, SU/96 <LI> <A HREF="cl215.htm"><B>Topics in Modern Literature: Authority</B></A>, FA/93 </UL><LI> Department of English: <UL><LI> <A HREF="eng120.htm"><B>English Composition II: Writing and Literature</B></A>, FA/94 </UL></UL></UL> </BODY><P> <IMG SRC="rule.gif" ALT="________________________________________"> <P> Last updated December 24, 2011. 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