Comparative Literature Luncheon Archive
Scroll down or click on a semester below for a list of the speakers and presentations since Spring 1999. The Luncheon series goes back more than half a century, though this online archive includes only the past few years.
SPRING SEMESTER, 2008
Jonathan Eburne, Coordinator
Friday, January 18, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Friday, January 25, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Neil Larsen (Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Davis): "Towards a Critical Theory of 'Theory'"
Monday, February 18, 2008
Randy J. Ploog (Coordinator of International Programs, College of Arts and Architecture and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "The Mitchell Dawson Collection at the Newberry Library: Remnants of a Double Life"
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "The Curse of Neoliberalism: Sex and Social Violence in Y tu mamá también and The Nanny and the Iceberg"
Monday, March 3, 2008
Ruben Gallo (Associate Professor of Spanish, Princeton University): "Freud's Pre-Columbian Antiquities"
Monday, March 10, 2008
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 17, 2008
Bettina Brandt (Assistant Professor of German, Montclair State University): "Herta Müller's Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde"
Monday, March 24, 2008
Rebecca Walkowitz (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University): "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel"
Monday, March 31, 2008
Jane Gallop (Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor): "The Value of Close Reading"
Monday, April 7, 2008
Heather Love (M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania): "To Be a Problem, To Be an Exception: Du Bois and Modern Stigma"
Monday, April 14, 2008
Martha Schoolman (Assistant Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio): "Violent Places: Travel, Reform and Revolution in William Wells Brown's Three Years in Europe"
Monday, April 21, 2008
Irene Makaryk (Vice-Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa): "Modernism, the Berezil Theatre, and the Paris Art Deco Exhibition of 1925."
Monday, April 28, 2008
Michael Taylor (The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art): "Body Matters: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donné Revisited"
FALL SEMESTER, 2007
Jonathan Eburne, Coordinator
Monday, September 10, 2007
Patrick Alexander (Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief, Penn State Press): "Books, Proposals, and Darwin: How the Fit Survive"
Monday, September 17, 2007
Sarah K. Rich (Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "How does one look at the back of a painting from the front? And why would one want to?"
Monday, September 24, 2007
Matt Jordan (Assistant Professor of Film/Video & Media Studies, Penn State University): "Neo's Liberal Movement: Virtual Action Aesthetics as a Symptom of the Global Ideology"
Monday, October 1, 2007
Jamie K. Taylor (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College): "The Face in the Crowd: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale"
Monday, October 8, 2007
Djelal Kadir (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The People's Republic and the Republic of Letters: Literature and the State"
Monday, October 15, 2007
LuMing Mao (Professor of English, Miami University): "Beyond Reading the Chinese Fortune Cookie: Analogy, Identity, and Hybridity in Chinese American Rhetoric"
Monday, October 22, 2007
The Future of Arts Journalism: A Roundtable Discussion with Panelists:
Gabeba Baderoon, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University (Moderator);
Robert Heisse, Editor, Centre Daily Times; Ted Krichels, General Manager, Penn State Broadcasting;
Ford Risley, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Journalism, Penn State University;
Elizabeth Scanlon, Editor, The
American Poetry Review;
Holly Selby, Baltimore Sun; Sandy Thatcher, Director, Penn State Press
Monday, October 29, 2007
A Roundtable Discussion on 2007 Nobel Prizewinner Doris Lessing
Penn State University Panelists:
Imke Brust, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Kelly Innes, Ph.D Candidate, Department of English
Giulia Miller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jewish Studies Program
Carol Motta, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature
Monday, November 5, 2007
L. Stephanie Cobb (Assistant Professor of Religion, Hofstra University): "Stoicism and the Problem of Pain in Early Christian Martyr Texts"
Monday, November 12, 2007
Donatella Ester di Cesare (Professor of Philosophy, University of Rome): "The Eclipse of the Word: On Language and Globalization"
Monday, November 19, 2007
Fall Break
Monday, November 26, 2007
Allan Stoekl (Professor of French, Penn State University): "The Logic(s) of Expenditure: Bataille in the context of Michael Marmot and Robert Frank"
Monday, December 3, 2007
Jeff Ferrell (Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas Christian University): "Little Scraps and Lost Moments: Writing the Empire of Scrounge"
SPRING SEMESTER, 2007
Jonathan Eburne, Coordinator
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Na'ama Rokem (Stanford University): "Inscribing Prose in Poetry: H.N. Bialik in the City of Slaughter"
Monday, January 22 , 2007
Edwin Hill (University of California, Los Angeles): "Technologies of the Minor: Radio as Metaphor for Cultural Emergence"
Friday, January 26, 2007
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Eric Hayot (Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona and Global Fellow, International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles): "Modernity’s Chinese Idiom: Suffering and the Problem of the Universal Human"
Monday, January 29 , 2007
Patrice Nganang (Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of Africana and German Studies, Vassar College): "Picturing the Colonized: From an African Theory of Pictures to Colonial Cinema"
Monday, February 5, 2007
Panel Discussion on David Lynch Panelists are:
Donald Kunze (Professor of Architecture and Integrative Arts)
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies)
Jonathan Eburne (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English)
Henry Morello (Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Spanish)
Friday, February 9, 2007
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 306 Burrowes today*
Regine Jean-Charles (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies, University of Virginia): "Survival Tales: Incest Survivor Narratives in Calixthe Beyala's Your Name Shall Be Tanga and Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue"
Monday, February 12, 2007
Djelal Kadir (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature): "Memos from the Besieged City"
Monday, February 19, 2007
Jed Esty (Associate Professor of English and Critical Theory, University of Illinois): "Empires of Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Anti-Developmental Novel."
Monday, February 26, 2007
William McCarthy (Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State Dubois): "The Shipman, the Sages, and Schaharazade: Medieval Tales in Contemporary American Folklore"
Monday, March 5, 2007
Nergis Ertürk (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton): "Surrealism and Turkish Script Arts."
Monday, March 12, 2007
Spring Break
Monday, March 19, 2007
Hester Blum (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Holes in the Poles"
Monday, March 26, 2007
James English (Professor and Chair, Department of English, The University of Pennsylvania): "The Global Economy of Literary Prestige"
Monday, April 2 , 2007
James Peterson (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State Abington): "An Anatomy of Hip Hop Criticism"
Monday, April 9, 2007
Stan Lai (Screenwriter/Director): "Performing the Diaspora: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land"
Monday, April 16 , 2007
Bernard Bell (Professor of English, Penn State University): "The Globalization in Mainland China of African American Jazz and Hip-Hop Culture"
Monday, April 23 , 2007
Vincent Colapietro (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "The Poetics of Experience: Toward a Pragmatic Understanding of Experience, Practice, & Translation"
Monday, April 30 , 2007
Jonathan Marks (Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law, Penn State University): "Al Qaeda through the Terrorscope: The Logic and Language of Torture."
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FALL SEMESTER, 2006
Jonathan Eburne, Coordinator
Wednesday, September 13 , 2006
Barbara Trent (Academy Award Winning Documentary Director): "The Economics of Media Censorship"
Monday, September 18 , 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Elaine Richardson (Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Penn State University): "Ride or Die B, Jezebel, Lil' Kim, or Kimberly Jones: African American Women's Language Practices."
Monday, September 25 , 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Jonathan Eburne (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State University): "Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker and Black Internationalism"
Monday, October 2, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Aaron Rosenberg (Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Verbal Art in East(ern) Africa: Samba Mapangala and Shaaban Robert"
Monday, October 9, 2006
Michael Bérubé (Paterno Professor of English, Penn State University): "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?"
Monday, October 16, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Alamír Aquino Corrêa (Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (State University of Londrina, Brazil): "Literary Practices on the Internet in Brazil"
Monday, October 23, 2006
Adrian Wanner (Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The New Nabokovs? Russian-American Immigrant Literature in the 21st Century"
Monday, October 30, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Rudy Wiebe (Author & Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta): "Writing Into Existence: A Reading of Western Canada Fiction"
Monday, November 6, 2006
Marc Caplan (Assistant Professor of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins) "Tevye Transformed: Sholem Aleichem From Page to Stage and Film."
Monday, November 13, 2006
Benjamin Schreier (Postdoctoral Fellow In Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Delmore Schwartz and the Beginning and End of Jewishness"
Monday, November 20 , 2006
Frederic Jameson (Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Fellow): "Futures of Theory"
Monday, November 27 , 2006
Pius Adesanmi (Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa): "Postcolonial Difference and “Criminalized” Mobilities: Preliminary Reflections"
Monday, December 4, 2006
Nobel Prize Literature 2006 Panel on the 2006 Nobel Prize, Orhan Pamuk. The Panelists are:
Ipek Kismet, Doctoral Student in Comparative Literature
Hülya N. (Ünlü) Yilmaz, Senior Lecturer in German & Instructor of Comparative Literature
Djelal Kadir, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature
Monday, December 11, 2006
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Reading the Bible in the Global South"
SPRING SEMESTER, 2006
Jonathan Eburne & Daniel Walden , Coordinators
Friday, January 20, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Karen Thornber (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University): "Transcultural Reconfigurations of Japanese Literature in East Asian Contact Zones, 1895-1945"
Monday, January 23, 2006
Charlotte Eubanks (Lecturer of Classical Japanese Language and Literature, University of Virginia): "The Buddhist Book of Memory: Text, Flesh, and the Written Word"
Friday, January 27, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Jonathan Abel (Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Studies Program, Columbia University): "Declassifying Censorship: The Radical Obscenities of Umehara Hokumei and Samuel Roth"
Monday, January 30, 2006
Gabeba Baderoon (Poet and Media Scholar): "The Dream in the Next Body"
Monday, February 6, 2006
Schuyler Henderson (M.D., New York City): "That Joke's Not Funny Anymore: Theories of Comedy and Suffering"
Monday, February 13, 2006
Richard Kopley (Professor of English, Penn State, Du Bois): "A Contemporary Narrative Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Story 'The White Old Maid'"
Monday, February 20, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 102 Weaver today*
Stuart Gillespie (Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow): "Cultural Authority: Metempsychosis from Pythagoras to Dryden, Proust, and Borges"
Monday, February 27, 2006
Maria Truglio (Assistant Professor of Italian, Penn State University): "Wise Gnomes, Nervous Astronauts and a Very Bad General: The Children's Books of Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi"
Monday, March 6, 2006
Spring Break
Monday, March 13, 2006
Tawny Holm (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania): "Aramaic Literature in the Dawn of Judaism"
Monday, March 20, 2006
Shane Vogel (Assistant Professor of English, University of Indiana): "Unperforming the Self: Lena Horne and Segregated Cabaret Performance "
Monday, March 27, 2006
Robert Caserio (Professor and Head of English, Penn State University: "Modernist Realism and Imperial Romance"
Monday, April 3, 2006
Gonzalo Rubio (Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, History, and Religious Studies, Penn State University): "Textual Promiscuity and Scribal Artifacts in Mesopotamia"
Monday, April 10, 2006
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 306 Burrowes today*
Caroline Eckhardt (Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State University): "Medieval Ideas of Europe"
Monday, April 17, 2006
Sergia Adamo (University of Trieste, Italy): "Representations of Single Women: Identity and Voice in Mann, Faulkner, Joyce and other 20th-c. Authors"
Monday, April 24, 2006
Jinghui Wang (Associate Professor of English, Tsinghua University, China): "Enemies and Barbarians: Ibsen and Coetzee"
FALL SEMESTER, 2005
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 12, 2005
Thomas Beebee (Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State University): "The DNA of the Lamb: The Race for the End on American Millenial Fiction"
Monday, September 19, 2005
Yunte Huang (Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara): "Basic English and Modernist Babel"
Monday, September 26, 2005
Rachel Teukolsky (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Decadence, Sexology, Utopia: Richard Burton's 'Arabian Nights'"
Monday, October 3, 2005
Manuel Broncano (Professor of Anglo-American Literature, University of León, Spain): "Translation as Translocation: The Translator as Intercultural Mediator: Translating Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Lennox into Spanish"
Monday, October 10, 2005
Igor Klekh, (Visiting poet, from Moscow, author of A Land the Size of Binoculars): "From Fiction to Non-Fiction: A Writer's Journey"
Monday, October 17, 2005
Wang Ning (Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing): "Global Englishes, and Global Chineses: A New Framework for Comparative Literature"
Monday, October 24, 2005
Allan Elfant (State College, Psychologist): "Freud Encounters the Greek Myth of Eros: Is Psychoanalysis Compatible with Romance?"
Monday, October 31, 2005
Hülya N. Ünlü (Senior Lecturer and Language Program Director for the Germanic and Slavic Department, Penn State University): "Islamist Literature in Turkey: Occidentalism from Within"
Monday, November 7, 2005
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 306 Burrowes today
*You can bring your lunch or buy a lunch from the Java food cart on the first floor lobby of Burrowes Building
T. Scott Herring (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Caravaggio's Rednecks"
Monday, November 14, 2005
Tomislav Longinovic (Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison): "This is a Man's World: Filming the Balkan Wars"
Monday, November 21, 2005
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 306 Burrowes today
*You can bring your lunch or buy a lunch from the Java food cart on the first floor lobby of Burrowes Building
Lisa Surwillo (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Penn State University): "Poetic Diplomacy: the American Civil War poems of Carolina Coronado"
Monday, November 28, 2005
Nobel Prize Literature 2005 Panel on the 2005 Nobel Prize, Harold Pinter: Charmian Hoare (Associate Professor of Theatre, Penn State University) and Dorn Hetzel (Associate Professor of Film and Video, Penn State University)
Monday, December 5, 2005
Chad Lavin (Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University): "Managing Katrina, or, A Crisis of Agency in the Agency of Crisis"
SPRING SEMESTER, 2005
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, January 17, 2005
Lee Roberts (University of California, Berkeley): "Mixing Metaphors: Terms of a German - Japanese Alliance"
Monday, January 21, 2005
Joseph Murphy (Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, University of Florida): "An Engineering Mediation to Culture: Thermodynamic Models in Soseki and Bataille"
Monday, January 24, 2005
Yoko Tawada (Writer in German & Japanese): "A Playful Journey through Words, Sound, and Body: Reading in Japanese, German, and English"
Monday, January 31, 2005
Dr. Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages, Yale University): "A Plea for a Longer and Wider History of Globalization"
Monday, February 7 , 2005
Robert Tierney (Stanford University): "The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi"
Monday, February 14, 2005
James Dunkerley (University of London): "Americas Plural - Old Wine in New Bottles?"
Monday, February 21, 2005
Peter Potter (Editor in Chief, Penn State University Press): "Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age"
Monday, February 28, 2005
Gabeba Baderoon (Independent Scholar): 'Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture'
Monday, March 7, 2005
Spring Break
Monday, March 14, 2005
No Luncheon
Monday, March 21, 2005
Carmelo Esterrich (Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago): "Tearing Mother Apart: The films of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego"
Monday, March 28, 2005
Debra Castillo (Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University): "Américan Dreams: New Latino Literature and the Curriculum"
Monday, April 4, 2005
Rachel Brenner (Dept Chairperson, College of Letters and Sciences, Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Beyond the Canon - How to Reread Israeli Literature: The Case of Amos Oz's My Michael"
Monday, April 11, 2005
Ato Quayson (Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, Cambridge University, United Kingdom): "Home as Longing: Literature and Diaspora"
Monday, April 18, 2005
Nancy Berg (Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Washington University): "Requiem for a Baghdad Lost: Israelis Remember Iraq"
Monday, April 25, 2005
Alexander Huang (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, Penn State University): "Wartime 'Diaspora' of Shakespeare"
FALL SEMESTER, 2004
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 13, 2004
Pius Adesanmi (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The Februaries of African Literature: Random Thoughts on a Different Representation of Difference"
Monday, September 20, 2004
Michael Naydan (Professor of Slavic Literature, Penn State University): "Translating Sound in Poetry: The Slavic Contexts"
Monday, September 27, 2004
Jonathan Brockopp (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Early Islamic Law: A New Text."
Monday, October 4, 2004
Robin Becker (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): 'Graphic Representation in "The Venetian:" A Poetry Reading and Slide Presentation on Ekphrastic Poems'
Monday, October 11, 2004
Aldon Nielsen (Kelly Professor of American Literature, and English, Penn State University): "The Beach Boys and the Black Arts"
Monday, October 18, 2004
David Pan (Associate Professor of German, Penn State University): "Herder, Rousseau, and the Origin of Language"
Monday, October 25 , 2004
Judy Van Zile (Professor of Dance at the University of Hawaii-Manoa): "Politics and Dance in Korea"
Monday, November 1, 2004
Bernard Bell (Professor of English, Penn State): "The Contemporary African American Novel: Trey Ellis's Platitudes and the New Black Aesthetic"
Monday, November 8, 2004
Nobel Prize Literature 2004 Panel on the 2004 Nobel Prize, Elfriede Jelinek: Cecilia Novero (Assistant Professor of German, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies, Penn State) and David Pan (Associate Professor of German, Penn State)
Monday, November 15, 2004
Donald Pease (Professor of English, Dartmouth College): "American Studies/Emergency States"
Monday, November 22, 2004
Dennis Schmidt (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "Tragedy and Ethical Life: The Example of Hoelderlin"
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SPRING SEMESTER, 2004
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, January 19, 2004
Linda Woodbridge (Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Payback Time: On the Economic Rhetoric of Revenge (on The Merchant of Venice, etc.)"
Monday, January 26, 2004
Alfred A. Triolo (Associate Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Italian, Penn State University): "Inferno V: Unpacking Francesca, Designed Undecidability?"
Monday, February 2, 2004
Thomas Hale (Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Marriage Should Not Mean Bondage: Women's Songs From West Africa"
Monday, February 9, 2004
Hester Blum (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Americans at Sea: 19th Century Sailors and Their Literary Culture"
Monday, February 16, 2004
Chris Dunton (Professor of English and Dean of the College of the Humanities, The National University of Lesotho): "Making Waves?: Colonial Policies and Shifting Structures of Feeling in the Early Independent Press in Southern Africa"
Monday, February 23, 2004
Charles Dumas (Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Penn State University): "Theatre in the New South Africa"
Monday, March 1 , 2004
Elizabeth Smith (Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "Interpreting Visual Culture in the 12th Century: The Name and Image of the Rose in an Italian Church"
Monday, March 8, 2004
Spring Break
Monday, March 15, 2004
Lovalerie King (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Exploring Questions of Race, Property, and Ethics in African American Literature"
Monday, March 22, 2004
Daniel Purdy (Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Penn State University): "The Perils of Building Big Before 9/11: Manhattan Skyscrapers and the Reconstruction of Berlin"
Monday, March 29, 2004
Susan Napier (Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture The University of Texas, Austin): "Matter Out of Place: The Abjected Monstrous in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away"
Monday, April 5, 2004
Christine Clark-Evans (Associate Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies, Penn State University): "Neuroscience in Two French Renaissance Poets: Pernette du Guillet and Guillaume du Bartas"
Monday, April 12, 2004
Sandra Spanier (Professor of English and General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project, Penn State University): "On Hemingway's Paper Trail"
Monday, April 19, 2004
Jonathan Eburne (Lecturer of English, Penn State University): "Surrealism and the Art of Crime"
Monday, April 26, 2004
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish, Penn State University): "Beyond Bicultural: The Diasporic Subject in Ariel Dorfman's Heading South, Looking North"
FALL SEMESTER, 2003
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 8, 2003
Adrian Wanner (Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Verbal Painting in the Russian Avant-Garde: Livshits vs.Kandinsky."
Monday, September 15, 2003
Christopher Clausen (Professor of English, Penn State University): "Reading Post-Cultural America Since 9/11: Has Everything/Anything Changed?"
Monday, September 22, 2003
Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor of History, Director Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University): "Asian Americans and Globalization?"
Monday, September 29, 2003
Carla Mulford (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "Pox and Hellfire: Boston's Smallpox Controversy, the New Science and Early Modern Liberalism."
Monday, October 6, 2003
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Frank Waters and the Reinvention of Native-American Spirituality."
Monday, October 13, 2003
No Luncheon (Day after Fall Break)
Monday, October 20, 2003
Lois Parkinson Zamora (Professor of English, University of Houston): "Monsters and Martyrs: García Márquez's Baroque Iconography."
Monday, October 27, 2003
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "Adventures in the Rothschild Archives."
Monday, November 3, 2003
Christiane Makward (Professor of French and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Visual Metaphor and Ellipses: ldrisso Ouedraogo's Film Style."
Monday, November 10, 2003
Deborah Clarke (Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Race Cars and Race Men: Modernism, Gender and Automobiles."
Monday, November 17, 2003
Gerhard Strasser (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Francesco Petrarca and Cola di Rienzi at the Habsburg Court in Prague in the 1350s."
Monday, November 24, 2003
Robert Edwards (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer Meets Cupid Again."
Monday, December 1, 2003
Nobel Prize Literature 2003 Panel on the 2003 Nobel Prize, John Maxwell Coetzee: Iyunolu Osagie (Associate Professor of English, Penn State) and Pius Adesanmi (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State)
SPRING SEMESTER, 2003
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Friday, January 17, 2003
Shu Kuge (Stanford University): "The Politics of Bio-Rhythm: Mishima Yukio's Elephant Seal."
Monday, January 20, 2003
Justin Read (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese, State University of New York at Buffalo): "The Cannibal Logic of Hyphens: An Orthography of Nation in the Americas."
Friday, January 24, 2003
Timothy Van Campernolle (Postdoctoral Fellow in the East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin College): "Literary Memory in Modernity: The Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo."
Monday, January 27, 2003
Brett Levinson (Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University SUNY at Binghamton): "Politics and Allegory: Rereading Populism, Thinking Neoliberalism."
Monday, February 3, 2003
Julia Kasdorf (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "Joseph Yoder (1872-1956), Mifflin County Musician, and author of "Rosanna of the Amish"
Monday, February 10, 2003
Thomas Beebee (Professor of Comparative Literatures, Penn State University): "Golden Flying Saucers: Ernesto Cardenal and Millennial Ufology."
Monday, February 17, 2003
John Moore (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "A Lament for Humanities .001."
Monday, February 24, 2003
Alice Sheppard (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Reading King Alfred in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
Monday, March 3, 2003
Ken Wiwa (Nigerian author and activist, Saul Rae Fellow in the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto): "An Inventory of Belonging: The Meaning of Home in a Postmodern World."
Monday, March 10, 2003
Spring Break
Monday, March 17, 2003
Shuang Shen (Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University): "Diasporic Time and Space in Ha Jin's Waiting."
Monday, March 24, 2003
Aníbal González (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish, Penn State University): "The Republic of Desire: Miguel Barnet's Canción de Rachel (1969) and the New Sentimental Novel in Spanish America."
Monday, March 31, 2003
James Brasfield (Senior Lecturer of English, Penn State University): "South: A Morphology."
Monday, April 7, 2003
Aline Tauzin (Senior Researcher in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research at the University of Picardy and professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris): "Saharan Music: About a Feminine Modernity"
Monday, April 14, 2003
Vincent Colapietro (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "Emerson's Experience: A Theological and Psychoanalytical Reading."
Monday, April 21, 2003
Bela Tsipuria (Visiting Scholar, Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Choosing a Cultural Space (Georgian Literature in the XX century)."
Monday, April 28, 2003
John Moore (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "A Lament Humanities 001."
FALL SEMESTER, 2002
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 9, 2002
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Penn State University): "WRITING THE NEW GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY: Beyond the Missionary Myth."
Monday, September 16, 2002
Maria Truglio (Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Department, Penn State University): "They might be poets: Giovanni Pascoli's 'God and Magog.'"
Monday, September 23, 2002
Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Professor of Contemporary History Universite Clermont-Ferrand, France): "French cultural elites and the new media. 1920-1970."
Monday, September 30, 2002
Alan Benjamin (Research Associate, Population Research Institute and Affiliate Professor of Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Ethnic Identity in Context: Ethnographic lessons from Jews in Curacao."
Monday, October 7, 2002
Basem Ra'ad (Professor of English and World Civilizations, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem): "Sacred Places and the Politics of Naming."
Monday, October 14, 2002
Fall Break, No Luncheon
Monday, October 21, 2002
Theo D'haen (Professor of American Literature at Leuven University (Louvain), Belgium, and Professor of English and American Literature at Leyden University, the Netherlands): "Empires Clashing over Literary History: US or UE (European Union)?"
Monday, October 28, 2002
Jen Hofer (Poet and Translator, Freelancing between Mexico City and Los Angeles): "No Visible Doors: Editing an Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women."
Monday, November 4, 2002
Claire Katz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Jewish Studies, Penn State University): Abraham --A Drag Queen? Or, Levinas and The Question of Maternity."
Monday, November 11, 2002
Sophia McClennen (Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature Department, Penn State University): "The Dialectics of Exile Writing: The Crisis of Representing Cultural Identity After 1960."
Monday, November 18, 2002
Craig Eisendrath (former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (state arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities) and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC): "Crisis Game. A Novel of the Cold War"
Monday, November 25, 2002
Thomas Lamarre (Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada): "The Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film: Film Literature and Images of the Globe in Interwar Japan."
Monday, December 2, 2002
Panel Discussion on Imre Kertesz, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 2002. The discussants are:
Marianne Posner, Humphrey Felllowship Program
Andras Toth, Humphrey Fellowship Program
SPRING SEMESTER, 2002
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, January 14, 2002
Aldon Lynn Nielsen (George and Barbara Kelly Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Melville on Trial: C.L.R. James and the Tribunal."
Monday, January 21, 2002
Richard Kopley (Associate Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Additional Allusions in Frederick Douglass's Narrative: The Declaration of Independence and Poe's 'The tell-Tale Heart.'"
Monday, January 28, 2002
Cary Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Penn State University): "Forging a Diasporic Sensibility: The Caribbean as a Site of Alternative Identity."
Monday, February 4, 2002
Pius Adesanmi (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Candidate For Faculty Position in Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Notebook(s) of a Return to the Native Land: The Ethnospatial Question in African Literatures."
Monday, February 11, 2002
Vera Mark (Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics, Penn State University): "What's in a Date? Literary Archeology and Popular Memory."
Monday, February 18, 2002
Dorothea Loebbermann (Research Fellow at the Center for Literary Studies, Zentrum für Literaturfoschung, Berlin): "Performances of Memory: 1920s' Harlem in fictional representations."
Monday, February 25, 2002
Willa Silverman (Associate Professor of French, Penn State University): "Of Books and Book Women: Discourses on Women's Reading Practices in Fin-de-Siecle France."
Monday, March 4, 2002
Spring Break
Monday, March 11, 2002
Anthony Tamburri (Professor of Italian and Italian/American Literature, Chair, Languages and Linguistics Interim Chair, English, Florida Atlantic University): "Italian/American Literature: Where It Began and Where Is It Going?"
Monday, March 18, 2002
Kang Liu (Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature): "Reinventing the 'Red Classics' in the Age of Globalization."
Monday, March 25, 2002
Cecilia Novero (Assistant Professor of German, Penn State University): "Spinning the Text: DJ meets Feminist Theory in a Contemporary German Novel."
Monday, April 1, 2002
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities, Penn State University): "Henry Williamson, Adolf Hitler, and the Obsessive 1914 Christmas Truce."
Monday, April 8, 2002
Nancy Tuana (Dupont- Class of 1949, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University): "Introducing the Rock Ethics Institute."
Monday, April 15, 2002
Robert Lima (Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Fellow Emeritus, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "The Alchemical Art of Leonora Carrington through Jung's Coniunctio."
Monday, April 22, 2002
Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado): "Slave or Free? Black or White? Chinese Coolies on 19th Century Cuban Plantations."
FALL SEMESTER, 2001
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 10, 2001
Professor Paul Rose (Department of History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Meyerbeer and Wagner Revisited: Parody and Intensification."
Monday, September 17, 2001
Professor Paul Giles (Department of English and American Studies, Cambridge University, U.K.): "Transnationalism in Practice"
Monday, September 24, 2001
Professor Arturo Arias (President of the Latin American Studies Association, and Director of Latin American Studies, University of Redlands): "Latin American Studies in an Age of Globalization."
Monday, October 1, 2001
Professor James L. W. West III (Department of English, Penn State University): "Tender is the Night and the Ellingson Matricide."
Monday, October 8, 2001
Fall Break
Monday, October 15, 2001
Professor John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine): "Comparative American Studies."
Monday, October 22, 2001
Professor Paul Jay (Loyola University, Chicago): "Global Culture, Comparative Literature, and Institutional Change"
Monday, October 29, 2001
Nancy Marie Brown (Director, Research Publications and Policy, Penn State University): "Medieval Icelandic Sagas and Modern Icelandic Realities: The Writing of 'A Good Horse Has No Color.'"
Monday, November 5 , 2001
Professor Santiago Vaquera (Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Penn State University): "Limit, Divide, Gateway: Re/thinking the Borderlands."
Monday, November 12, 2001
Professor Fred Gardaphé (SUNY, Stony Brook): "From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster Figure in Italian American Culture"
Monday, November 19, 2001
Associate Professor Marie Secor (Department of English, Penn State University): "Emotion and Rhetoric: Darwin's Earthworms and The Expression of Emotion in Animals."
Monday, November 26, 2001
Professor Robin Becker (Department of English, Penn State University): "Where Lyric Joins Narrative: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Robin Becker."
Monday, December 3, 2001
Panel Discussion on the Nobel Prize for Literature: "The Significance of V.S. Naipaul as the 2001 Recipient." The discussants are:
Carol Motta (Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Cary Fraser (Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Penn State University)
Daniel Walden (Emeritus Professor of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Bill Welch, Mayor, State College
SPRING SEMESTER, 2001
Kang Liu, Coordinator
Monday, January 15, 2001
Jeffrey Nealon (Associate Professor of English at Penn State): "Learning from Las Vegas II: Empire of the Intensities".
Friday, January 19, 2001
Andrzej Warminski (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine): "Worked OR: Aesthetic Ideology/Material Inscription" (On Hegel's Aesthetics and Keats's Urn)
Monday, January 22, 2001
Kathy Komar (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, University of California at Los Angeles): "Klytemnestra in the Late Twentieth Century."
Friday, January 26, 2001
Beatrice Hanssen (Associate Professor of German, Harvard University): "Black Skin, White Masks: Fanon, Melancholy, and Race."
Monday, January 29, 2001
Reingard Nethersole (Professor of Cross Cultural Studies and Director, Center for International Political Studies, University of Pretoria; also Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Witswatersrand, South Africa): "From the Market to the Mall: A Comparatist's View of the South African Story."
Monday, February 5, 2001
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus, Penn State University): "The Prince of Wales Makes a Royal Progress Through India, 1875-1876."
Monday, February 12, 2001
Sherry Roush (Assistant Professor of Italian, Penn State University): "What poets mean when they gloss their own verse: The cases of Dante and Tommaso Campanella."
Monday, February 19, 2001
Robert Lima (Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "Entering Khufu: A Search in Secret Egypt"
Monday, February 26, 2001
Ronald Judy (Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh): "Global Literature and a Theory of Arabic Literary Modernism."
Monday, March 5, 2001
Spring Break
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
David Damrosch (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University): "What is World Literature?"
Monday, March 19, 2001
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Texas, Austin): "This Writer's Sense of Place."
Monday, March 26, 2001
Roland Greene (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University): "The Problem of the Transatlantic?"
Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Jonathan Culler (Senior Associate Dean College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University): "The Genius of Roland Barthes."
Monday, April 9, 2001
Dr. Nawal El Saadawi (Egyptian novelist, essayist, and activist for women's rights): "The Situation of the Writer in Egypt Today."
Monday, April 16, 2001
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (University of Western Ontario): "Myth and Habit."
Monday, April 23, 2001
Deborah Starr (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism."
FALL SEMESTER, 2000
Daniel Walden, Coordinator
Monday, September 11, 2000
A Panel Discussion: Djelal Kadir (Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University); Cathy Steblyk (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese, Penn State University); Ayo Coly (Doctoral Student in Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "News from Pretoria: Current Issues in Comparative Literature as Seen at the ICLA"
Monday, September 18, 2000
Peter Demetz (Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University): "The Poets and the Flying Machine."
Monday, September 25, 2000
Helmut Graser (Professor of Linguistics, University of Augsburg) and Beverly Ann Tlusty (Professor of History, Bucknell University): "Women's Literacy and Vernacular Language: Women Healers in Early Modern Germany."
Monday, October 2, 2000
Günter Hägele (Head of the Humanities Library, Keeper of Manuscripts and Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Augsburg): "Princely Treasures: The Library of the Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein."
Monday, October 9, 2000
(Fall Break no luncheon)
Monday, October 16, 2000
A Panel Discussion: Sonia Torres (Professor of American Studies, Universidade Federal Fluminense); Theo D'Haen (Professor of American Studies and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Leiden); Loes Nas, Professor of American Studies (University of the Western Cape): "New Paradigms: American Studies and Transnational Comparatism."
Monday, October 23, 2000
Elana Shoham (Chair of the Language Education Program School of Education, Tel Aviv University): "Language Policies and Multi-Lingualism in Israel: Implications for the United States."
Monday, October 30, 2000
Sanford Thatcher (Director, Penn State University Press): "Literature and the State of Publishing in the United States Today."
Monday, November 6, 2000
Ross Brann (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell): "Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews in Muslim Spain."
Monday, November 13, 2000
The Annual Nobel Prize Panel: "A Panel on This Year's Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature."
Monday, November 20, 2000
Kang-I Sun Chang (Department of Asian Studies, Yale): "Gender Theory and Traditional Chinese Literature"
Monday, November 27, 2000
Heinz Ickstadt (Freie Universität, Berlin): "American Modernism: A European Perspective"
Monday, December 4, 2000
Vincent Lankewish (English, Penn State): "Embroidering Chaucer: Victorian Schoolgirls and 'The Legend of Good Women' Tapestries"
SPRING SEMESTER, 2000
Michael Begnal, Coordinator
Monday, January 24, 2000
Guillermina De Ferrari (Columbia University): "The Caribbean Childhood Story and the Unmaking of the Colonial Body."
Friday, January 28, 2000
Deborah Starr (University of Michigan): "Border Passings: Locating Egyptian Jewishness."
Monday, January 31, 2000
Laura Lomas (Columbia University): "Reading in the Tropics: Emerson, Martí, Mistral"
Monday, February 7, 2000
Suzanne Popkin (University of California, Berkeley): "I Can't Speak, She Said: Impossibility, the Holocaust, Duras"
Monday, February 14, 2000
Mark Munn (Department of History, Penn State): “Panakton and Athens: The Archeology of an Ancient Greek Frontier”
Monday, February 21, 2000
Nicholas Joukovsky (Associate Professor of English, Penn State): "Romantic Plagiarism and the Tradition of Learned Wit: Sterne, Peacock, DeQuincey, Coleridge"
Monday, February 28, 2000
Kathryn Grossman (Professor of French Penn State): “Victor Hugo as Pop Icon: Literary and Commercial Fortunes"
Monday, March 13, 2000
Adrian Wanner (Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Penn State): “Minimalism in Russian Literature”
Monday, March 20, 2000
Helga Meise (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany): “The Limitations of Family Tradition: Women and Autobiography in 18th-Century Germany"
Monday, March 27, 2000
Richard Doyle (Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Penn State): "Dicktations: Informatic Hauntings of Philip K. Dick"
Monday, April 3, 2000
Norma Field (Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): "Teaching Japanese Literature after the Death of Literature"
Monday, April 10, 2000
Niklas Holzberg (Professor of Classical Philology, University of Munich): “Staging the Fringe Before Shakespeare: Hans Sachs and the Ancient Novel"
Monday, April 17, 2000
Ami Dykman (Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Penn State): “Poetry and Poetics of Smoking”
Monday, April 24, 2000
Neil Donahue (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Head - Department of Comparative Literature, Hofstra University): “At the Heart of the Matter: Desperate Deliberations in Victor Klemperer's Diaries,1933-1945”
FALL SEMESTER, 1999
Michael Begnal, Coordinator
Monday, August 30, 1999
John Irwin (Decker Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Chairman of the Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University): "Verbal and Visual Narration: Hart Crane's 'The Bridge' in a Comparatist Context".
Monday, September 13, 1999
Armin Frank (Professor of American Literature and American Studies, University of Göttingen - American Studies): “Acrobatics on the East-West Cultural Incline: An Intercultural Reading of Ebenezer Cook’s The Sot-Weed Factor”
Monday, September 20, 1999
Charlotte Holmes (Associate Professor of English at Penn State): “The Winter Count”
Monday September 27, 1999
John Moore (Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State): "The Gods of Spenser's 'Calender'”
Monday, October 4, 1999
Jeff Nealon (Associate Professor of English at Penn State): "Nietzsche's Money"
Monday, October 11, 1999
Fall Break, No Luncheon.
Monday, October 18, 1999
Michael Begnal (Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State): "'I Dig Joyce': Jack Kerouac and Finnegans Wake"
Monday, October 25, 1999
Susan Squier (Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State): "Wireless Possibilities: Brain Radio, Community Radio, Radio Lazarus"
Monday, November 1, 1999
Remo Ceserani (Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy): "Postmodernity and Postmodernism in Italy"
Monday, November 8, 1999
Margaret Menninger (Lecturer in the Department of History at Penn State): "Art and Civic Patronage in Leipzig, 1848-1914"
Monday, November 15, 1999
No Luncheon.
Monday, November 22, 1999
Ray Scheindlin (Professor of Jewish Thought and Medieval Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York): Tentative title of talk: "Translating the Book of Job
Monday, November 29, 1999
Ernst Schürer, Manfred Keune, and Rhonda Duffaut (faculty in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures): Panel on the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of "The Tin Drum" -- Günter Grass.
Monday, December 6, 1999
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities at Penn State, Department of English): "Sleeping Around with Edward the Caresser"
SPRING SEMESTER, 1999
Robert Lima, Coordinator
Monday, January 25, 1999
Panel on Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago
Panelists: Gerald Moser (Professor Emeritus, Portuguese and Spanish at Penn State), Dora de Carvalho
Monday, February 1, 1999
Manuel Delgado (Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University): "The Embroiderers of Desire in the Works of Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, and Luis Buñuel"
Monday, February 8, 1999
Linda Ivanits (Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Penn State): "Biblical Imagery in the Short Stories of Fyodor Sologub"
Monday, February 15, 1999
Norris Lacy (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French at Penn State): "Gargantua in the Land of Arthur"
Monday, February 22, 1999
Ami Dykman (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Hebrew at Penn State): "Translating Poetry: Some Thoughts on The Case of Hebrew"
Monday, March 1, 1999
Nicholas Rennie (Assistant Professor and Chair of German at Rutgers University): "Moments to (Roll the) Die for: Faust between Pascal and Mallarmé
Monday, March 15, 1999
Kang Liu (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at Penn State): "Globalization and Cultural Trends in China"
Monday, March 22, 1999
Alan Dundes (Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at the University of California-Berkley; contact Linda Ivanits): "Sacred Writ as Oral Writ: The bible as Folklore"
Monday, March 29, 1999
Li Xiguang (Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University): "Media Changes in China Today"
Monday, April 5, 1999
George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva, Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge): "The Crisis of the Word"
Monday, April 12, 1999
Charles Dumas (Associate Professor of Theatre at Penn State): "SURFACING: A Post Hoc Look at The Movement"
Monday, April 19, 1999
Agen Sáenz-Badillos (visitor, contact Ami Dykman, Comparative Literature): "Medieval Hebrew Literature."
Monday, April 26, 1999
Katwiwa Mule (Instructor in Swahili, Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State): "Writing the Nation: Gender and Nation Transformation in Ari Katini Mwachofi's Mama Ee."
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