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Thomas Oliver Beebee 311 Burrowes Bldg. Penn State University Park, PA 16802 phone:(814)863-4935 email:
tob@psu.edu
EDUCATION
1973-77 B.A. Dartmouth College (Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) Major: Comparative Literature (German & Music) 1977-78
M.A. University of Michigan Field:
Comparative Literature (German & Spanish) 1978-84
Ph.D. University of Michigan Field:
Comparative Literature,
Thesis: "Clarissa
Betrayed: Continental Translations
of Richardsons Novel" PROFESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTS
1978-81
Teaching Assistant, German and Great Books, University of Michigan 1981-82
Lecturer, University of Mainz, West Germany 1982-83
Teaching Assistant, German and English, University of Michigan 1984-86
Assistant Professor of German, Bowdoin College 1986-92
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State
University 1992-
Asociate Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State
University 1993
Visiting Scholar (Fulbright), English, Federal University of Paraná,
Curitiba, Brazil PUBLICATIONS 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. Translation:
With
Qing-yun Wu. The
Remote Country of Women. By Bai
Hua. Honolulu:
U of Hawaii P, 1994. 369 pp.
Reviews: Kirkus Reviews, May 1 1994; Publishers
Weekly, 13 June 1994: 61; Modern Chinese
Literature 8 (1994): 229-36;
Chinese Literature:
Essays, Articles, Reviews 17 (December 1995):
167-9.
1994-95 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize nominee. Edition:
With
Steven R. Cerf and James L. Hodge. Introduction, notes, and glossary for Richard
von Weizsäcker's Zum 40. Jahrestag der
Beendigung des Krieges in Europa und der nationalsozialistischen
Gewaltherrschaft. Cherry Hill,
NJ: American Association of
Teachers of German, 1987. 32 pps. In
Progress:
True Imaginary Places: Geographies
of Nation in Modern American and European Literatures
New World Apocalypse 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.” Sub-stance 23.1 (1994): 63-78.
“Talking Maps: Region and Revolution in Juan Vincent 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. Submitted: *With Beverly Weber. "Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Resistance to Poetics." To German Quarterly,
August 1999. 7500 words. 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. *"Habermas's Öffentlichkeit: The Frankfurt School's Most Influential Concept?" Volume on the Frankfurt School
legacy, edited Jeff Nealon and Karin Irr. SUNY
Press (to appear). 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:
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 (to appear).
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PAPERS 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.
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.
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 fellow at Luton University. 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. 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. 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 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. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & ACTIVITIES
1977-
Phi Beta Kappa 1980-81 Vice-President, Delta Phi Alpha Honor Society for German Scholars, University of
Michigan 1981-82
Exchange Lectureship, University of Mainz 1983-84
Horace H. Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan 1985
Participant, German Film Institute, Clark University 1990
Honorary Inductee, Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Honor Society 1992
Class of 1933 Humanities Award, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State
University 1993
Eisenhower Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State University 1994-98
NEH Evaluation Committee:
Summer Stipend Grants 1995-97
CIES Disciplinary Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards 1999- ACLA Representative to the Field Committee of the National Initiative for a
Networked Cultural Heritage
GRANTS 1987
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant (Penn State) 1988
Research Initiation Grant (Penn State) 1990
NEH Travel to Collections Grant for research in Paris, France 1991
Jacobs Fellowship (Penn State) 1991
Folger Institute Grant-in-Aid (to attend Folger Seminar and conduct
research) 1993
Fulbright Lecturing/Research Grant, Federal University of Paraná,
Curitiba, Brazil 1997
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant (Penn State) 1998
FELT Grant for the Development of World Literature Course 1998-2000 Honorary Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant (Penn
State) March
2000 Grant-in-Aid
for Folger Institute Weekend Faculty Seminar ($700)
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
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