Books:

Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1990. xi + 228 pp. Reviews in: Choice, Feb. 1991: 116; Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4.1 (Oct. 1991): 78-81; ICLA Literary Research 16-17 (Summer-Winter 1991): 34-5;  Studies in English Literature 31 (1991): 592-3; Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature (1992): 612-3; Comparative Literature Studies 30.1 (1993): 92-3; Target 7.2 (1995): 374-5.

The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability. University Park: Penn State Press, 1994. viii + 303 pp. Review in: New Comparison 20 (Autumn 1995): 162-3.

Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. x+277 pp. Reviews in: Choice, Oct. 1999; Comparative Literature 52.3 (Summer 2000): 259-61; Review of English Studies 51 (2000): 203-4; Eighteenth-Century Fiction 13.1 (2000): 136-7; Notes & Queries 47.3 (2000); Forum for Modern Language Studies 37.1 (2001).

Translation:

Edition:

Completed:    

In Progress:

 Articles in journals:               

"Orientalism, Absence, and the Poème en Prose." Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities 2 (1980): 47-71.

"Deciphering the Word 'Cipher' in Richardson's Clarissa." American Notes and Queries N.S. 1.2 (April 1988): 50-53.

"Kafka's Law: A Recursive Definition." Kennesaw Review 2.1 (Fall 1989): 39-54.

"Doing Clarissa's Will: Samuel Richardson's Legal Genres." The International Journal of Law and Semiotics 2.5 (1989): 159-182.

"Ballad of the Apocalypse: Another Look at Bob Dylan's 'Hard Rain.'" Text and Performance Quarterly 11 (1991): 18-34.

"Johann Jakob Dusch and the Genealogy of Epistolary Fiction." JEGP 91.3 (July 1992): 360-82.

"The Letter Killeth: The Pli of Death in Jean-Paul Marat's Epistolary Fiction." Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History 21.3 (Spring 1992): 217-41. Translated into Chinese as “Huoxing baocang: Lun Mala xiaoshuo zhong de siwang heihan.” Zhongwai Wenxue 263 (April 1994): 33-56.

“The Fiction of Translation: Abdelkebir Khatibi’sLove in Two Languages.” Substance 23.1 (1994): 63-78.

“Talking Maps: Region and Revolution in Juan Benet’s Volverás a Región and Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões.” Comparative Literature 47.3 (Summer 1995): 193-214.

“The Rifled Mailbag: Robber as Reader in Epistolary Fiction." Revue de Littérature Comparée (Jan.-Mar. 1996): 14-36.

Joshua M. Getz and Thomas O. Beebee. “The Epistolary Politics of Amos Oz’s Black Box.” Prooftexts 18.1 (January 1998).

“Tryptichs of Solipsism: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and Fogo Morto by José Lins do Rego.” The Comparatist (1999): 63-88.

"The Canudos Phenomenon: Three Early Factions." Brazil/Brasil, to appear. 6500 words.

With Beverly Weber. "A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics." German Quarterly, to appear. 7500 words.

Submitted:

"Golden Flying Saucers: Ernesto Cardenal and Millennial Ufology." To Post-Modern Culture, April 2001. 7750 words.

 In progress:

 "Translation and Cultural Renewal in José Cadalso's Cartas marruecas"

 Chapters in Books:

"Rudolf Borchardt." In German Fiction Writers 1885-1913, Part One. Vol. 66 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1988. 50-64.            

"Claude Lévi-Strauss." In Critical Survey of Literary Theory. Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1988. II: 885-892. Rpt. under same title in the Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, H-L: London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999: 663-666.                                             

"Jacques Lacan." In Critical Survey of Literary Theory. Los Angeles: Salem Press, 1988. II: 843-852. Rpt. under same title in the Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism, H-L. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999: 648-652.

“Letters of the Law: Rhetoric and Fiction in the Artes Dictaminis.” In Action and Agency: Fourth Round Table on Law and Semiotics. Ed. Roberta Kevelson. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. 33-64.

"Bertolt Brecht's Legal Theater." In Law and Aesthetics. Ed. Roberta Kevelson. New York: Peter Lang, 1992. 37-67.

“Kant, Goethe, Benjamin, and the Law of Marriage.” In Worldmaking. Ed. William Pencak. NY: Lang, 1996. 193-210.

“Cathartic Thinking: Semiotics and Tragic Theory.” In A Handbook of Semiotics. Ed. Roberta Kevelson. New York: Lang, 1998. 173-90.

"Preface" to Charles Kraszewski, Four Translation Strategies Determined by the Particular Needs of the Receptor. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. iii-v.

“Epistolary Novel.” In Encyclopedia of the Novel: Vol. 1: A-L. Ed. Paul Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 384-8.  

"Rebellion in the Backlands." In World Literature and Its Times, Vol. 1: Latin-American Literature and its Times. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1999. 431-43.

"The Öffentlichkeit of Jürgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School's Most Influential Concept?" In Rethinking the Frankfurt School. Ed. Jeffrey Nealon and Karin Irr. Albany: SUNY Press, to appear. 9000 words.

Translations:      

Translation of Rainer Warning, "Staged Discourse: Remarks on the Pragmatics of Fiction." Dispositio, 5 (1980): 35-54.

Co-translator with Qing-yun Wu. "I Think . . . ." By Zhan-chun Geng. Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature, 38 (1989): 120--33.

Other:

"Green and Gold. Photo-Texts on Brazil." TAXI 3 (June 1997). World Wide Web. URL http://www2c.meshnet.or.jp/~taxi/06-97/beebee/main1.html.

“Os Sertões Illustrated.” TAXI 4 (July 1997). World Wide Web. URL http://www2c.meshnet.or.jp/~taxi/07-97/sertao/sertoes1.html.

Reviews and Review Essays:               

The Dialectics of Representation, by Susan Wells. Philosophy and Literature 11.1 (April 1987): 185-87.

Die andere Welt, ed. Thomas Koebner and Gerhart Pickerodt. Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature 37 (1988): 186-89.

The Opening of Vision, by David Michael Levin. Comparative Literature Studies 27.4 (1990): 326-333.

The Veil of Illusion, by Dorothea von Mücke. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93.1 (1993): 91-5. 

Representing the French Revolution, ed. James Heffernan. Clio 24.2 (Winter 1994): 191-5.

The History in Literature, by Herbert Lindenberger. Clio 23.1 (1993): 103-6.

Writing the Female Voice, ed. Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Comparative Literature Studies 31.4 (1994): 418-27.

Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the Beginnings of Comparative Literature in the United States, ed. Lionel Gossman aned Mihai Spariosu. Clio 25.1 (Fall 1995): 114-9.

The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation, by Lawrence Venuti. Comparative Literature Studies. 34.1 (1997): 94-8.

“Five Books by Oleone Coelho Fontes.” Luso-Brazilian Review 35.2 (Winter 1998): 127-32.

"Literary Ethics." Comparative Literature Studies 36.4 (1999): 341-6.

Organized and chaired special session: "Clarissa; or, the Case History of a Young Lady: Psychological Approaches to Richardson's Novel." MLA Annual Convention, December 1984.

"Clarissa's Blooming: A Case of Strong Mistranslation." Symposium on International Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language, George Mason University, October 1985.

"Kafka's Law: A Recursive Definition." Interface '86 Conference on Technology and the Humanities, Marietta, GA, September 1986.                                                                                                                                                            "Writing as Ruling in Aphra Behn and Claude Lévi-Strauss." Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, Atlanta, GA, April 1987.

"Recursivity and Narrative/Life." International Conference on Narrative, March 1988.

"Doing Clarissa's Will: Samuel Richardson's Legal Genres." IV. International Colloquium on Semiotics and Law, May 1988.

"The Voice of the Translator." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Waltham, MA, March 1989.

"The Fiction of Translation: Abdelkebir Khatibi's Love in Two Languages" Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 1990.

"Letters of the Law: Fiction and Rhetoric in the Artes Dictaminis." Fourth International Roundtable on Semiotics and Law, April 1990.

"Bertolt Brecht's Legal Theater." Fifth International Roundtable on Semiotics and Law, April 1991.

Chaired session: “The Wall in Literature II.” Conference on The Wall, Reality and Symbol, October 1991.

“Region and Revolution in Juan Vincent Benet’s Volverás a Región and Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, New York City, April 1992.

“Kant, Goethe, Benjamin, and the Law of Marriage.” The Sixth Roundtable on Law and Semiotics, Reading PA, May 1992.

“The Literature of Theory.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, March 1993.

“A Mulher como escritora de cartas em várias literaturas.” X Semana de Estudos Germánicos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 26 October 1993.

“Is it Science? Some Mental Maps in Modern Literature and Criticism.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Athens, GA, March 1995.

“Between Word and Text: The Translating Fictions of Borges, Brossard, and Khatibi” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, University of Notre Dame, April 1996.

“Cultural Memory and the Narrativization of Space.” The International Comparative Literature Association Triannual Convention, Leiden, The Netherlands, August 1997.

"Desert Landscape with Woman: Mary Austin, Nicole Brossard, and Joy Harjo Translate the American Southwest" ACLA Annual Convention, Austin, Texas, March 1998.

"Canudos: The Republic as Anti-Christ." Twelfth Roundtable in Law and Semiotics. Penn State - University Park, April 1998.

"Habermas's Public Sphere: A Reception History." Rethinking the Frankfurt School: A Symposium. Penn State - University Park, November 1998.

"The Y2K Bug, Caesar's Column , Canudos, Waco, Apokalypsis -- and You: Premillennarianism as a Transnational American Phenomenon." ACLA Annual Convention, Montreal, April 1999.

Chaired sesssion on "Modern Letters: Texts, History, Theory." The New Modernisms Conference, University Park, October 1999.

"They Built Millennium: Jesuits and Guaranis 1610-1768." The Fifth Annual Conference on Millennial Studies, Boston University, October 2000.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

“Computer Power and Literary Theory.” Invited lecture to the seminar in “Crafting the Postmodern,” University Park, July 1989.

"Death and the Letter in Jean-Paul Marat's Epistolary Novel." Invited lecture, Dartmouth College, October 1991.

"Tough, Tender, and Timely: On the History of German Rock." Lecture / demonstration in the exhibition "Gefühl und Härte: Zur Geschichte des deutschen Rocks." HUB Formal Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, March 1991.

With Jonathan Brent. “This is an ‘I.’” Odyssey Through Literature (radio show). Broadcast on WPSU, December 1991.

With Eva Hoffmann. “Lost in Translation.” Odyssey Through Literature. Broadcast on WPSU, December 1991.

“Trípticos de solipsismo: The Sound and the Fury de William Faulkner e Fogo Morto de José Lins do Rego.” Talk given in Portuguese at the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo – Campus de Araraquara, 22 November 1993.

“‘Os mapas-falante’ de Euclides da Cunha e Juan Vincent Benet.” Talk given in Portuguese at the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo – Campus de Araraquara, 22 November 1993

“A Literatura da teoria” Talk given in Portuguese at the Universidade Estadual de São Paulo – Campus de Araraquara, 23 November 1993.

“The Literature of Theory” Talk given in English at the Universidade Federal da Bahia – Salvador, 12 January 1993.

“The Lettered Woman: Variations on a Metaphor.” Talk given at the California State University at Los Angeles, 12 May 1994.

Participant in a table ronde on Bernardin de St. Pierre's Paul et Virginie. Cocteau's World Symposium, University Park, March 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS

Comparative Literature:

Graduate Seminars: History of Literary Criticism and Theory; Contemporary Theory; Literary Translation; Literary Biography and Autobiography; Inter-American Literature; New World Apocalypse; Epistolarity; Transnationalism and Intranationalism (with Thomas Hale); The Teaching of World Literature (with Thomas Hale)

Undergraduate Seminars: Senior Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory; Inter-American Literature; Film and Literature; First-year Seminar in Diaries, Confessions, and Letters; First-year Seminar in The Power of Literature; Western Literary Heritage Since the Renaissance

Undergraduate General Education Lecture Courses: Literature of the Americas; Western Masterpieces since the Renaissance; Forms of World Literature; Introduction to Comparative Literature

German:

Graduate Seminars: German Theory and Criticism; Wagner, Nietzsche, Mann; Classicism and Romanticism  

Undergraduate Major Courses: German Literature in its Historical and Social Contexts; Introduction to Literature; Intermediate and Advanced Composition and Conversation

Undergraduate General Education Lecture Courses: German Culture to WWII; Contemporary German Culture

Portuguese

Undergraduate Recitation Course: Portuguese 001, 002, and 003

GRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED

Doctoral:              

Reiko Nemoto, "Memories of World War Two: Victimization and Guilt in the Fiction of Mishima, Oe, Grass, and Böll" (Comparative Literature), completed February 1991. Currently associate professor of Japanese at Penn State University.

Qing-yun Wu, "Transformations of Female Rule: Feminist Utopias in Chinese and English Literature" (Comparative Literature), completed February 1991. Currently associate professor of Chinese at Cal State Los Angeles.

Ana Carlota Larrea, "Film in Post-Modern Fiction" (Comparative Literature), completed January 1992. Currently Senior Lecturer at Luton University (England).

Jeffrey Bauer, "Women and the Changing Concept of Salvation in Richard Wagner's Operas" (German), completed August 1992.

Kai-ling Liu, “The Unsent/Unanswered Letter in Epistolary Fiction by Modern Women Writers of Color” (Comparative Literature), completed December 1994. Currently associate professor of foreign languages, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan).

Noriko Miura, “Marginal Voice, Marginal Body: The Treatment of the Human Body in the Works of Nakagami Kenji, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Salman Rushdie” (Comparative Literature), completed August 1996. Deceased.

Ying-chiao Lin, “The Mother/Daughter Text: Female Identity and Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Four Contemporary Women Novelists” (Comparative Literature), completed May 1997.

Joshua M. Getz. “Images of Devouring in Contemporary Fiction by Sephardic Israelis and Chinese Americans,” (Comparative Literature), completed May 1998. Currently assistant professor of Hebrew at Emory University.

Liza Ann Acosta, "Ritual in Women's Drama of the Americas," (Comparative Literature), defended December 2000. Currently assistant professor of English at North Park College.

Ayumi Ohmoto, "Ghost Narrative and the Dialog of Otherness" (Comparative Literature), in progress.

Heide Crawford, "The German Schauerballade" (German), in progress.

Christiane Eydt, “Translating Heinrich von Kleist's Dramas into English” (German), in progress.

Sharon Bailey, "The New Man in European Literature" (Comparative Literature), in progress.

Masters:

Christiane Eydt. "Wo ist Woyzeck im Englischen?: Eine Untersuchung von Problemen und Lösungen beim Übersetzen von Georg Büchners Drama" (German), completed March 1991.

John N. Spiro, "Film Adaptations of Les Liaisons dangereuses" (Comparative Literature), completed July 1991.

James Jellison, “Autobiography, Regimen, and Writing,” (Comparative Literature), completed August 1992.

Has also served as a member on 29 other student doctoral dissertation committees.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & ACTIVITIES

GRANTS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association of Teachers of German

American Comparative Literature Association

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Delta Phi Alpha Honor Society for German Scholars

International Comparative Literature Association

Modern Language Association

Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Honor Society

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