Emeritus Professors
Knight, Alan E. Professor Emeritus of French. B.A., M.A., Ph.D.-Yale University, 1965. Fields of Specialization: medieval French theater, late medieval French literature, textual criticism. Publications include a book, Aspects of Genre in Late Medieval French Drama, and numerous articles such as "The Medieval Theater of the Absurd" and "The Enacted Narrative: From Bible to Stage in Late Medieval France." The current research project is a critical edition of a collection of 72 fifteenth-century plays that were performed at an annual religious and civic procession in the city of Lille.
Lewis, Arthur O. Professor Emeritus of English. A.B., A.M.-Harvard University; Ph.D.-Penn State, 1951. Fields of Specialization: 20th century American litera-ture, Utopian literature, American-German literary relations. Publications include Of Men and Machines; Emblem Books and English Drama, and studies of Utopian and technological themes in literature. Co-author of Visions and Revisions in Modern American Literary Criticism and The World of Japanese Fiction. Office: Leave a message in 111 Sparks Building (814.865.7691).
Lima, Robert. Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature. B.A., M.A., Villanova University, Ph.D., Hunter College, CUNY, 1968. The Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature (revising co-editor, 1962) and critical studies, among them the books The Theatre of García Lorca (1963), Borges the Labyrinth Maker (Edited and Translated, 1965), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1972), Dos ensayos sobre teatro español de los veinte (co-authored, 1984), and Valle-Inclán. The Theatre of His Life (1988). He has also compiled the most comprehensive bibliography on its subject An Annotated Bibliography of Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1972) and has translated Valle-Inclán's The Lamp of Marvels (1986) and Savage Acts. Four Plays (1993). He edited and contributed an essay to Borges and the Esoteric (1993). The first of three volumes of his Ramón del Valle-Inclán, An Annotated Bibliography was published in London by Grant & Cutler in 1999.. Dark Prisms. Occultism in Hispanic Drama has been published in 1995, by the University Press of Kentucky. His biography of Valle-Inclán has been translated into Spanish and was published in 1995 as Valle-Inclán. El teatro de su vida by Editorial Nigra Imaxe. He is the editor and a contributor to a special issue of Cauda Pavonis, Studies in Hermeticism, published in Fall 2000, in honor of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. He has published over 100 articles in the United States and abroad. Office: 211 Burrowes. (814.865.4252). E-mail: rxl2@psu.edu.
Makward, Christiane P. Professor of French and Women's Studies. Lic. ès Let. Sorbonne, France; Dip. Et. Sup. University of Dakar, Senegal; Doct. 3e cycle Sorbonne, France, 1974. Fields of specialization: twentieth century French literature, contemporary criticism, and Francophone women's studies. Books include the autobiography of Swiss Writer Corinna Bille, and a critical edition of the unpublished dramatic works (1996); also, Plays by French and Franco-phone Women, A Critical Anthology, with Judith G. Miller (Michigan UP, 1994), and Mayotte Capécia ou l’aliénation selon Fanon (Paris: Karthala, 1999). Makward is the principal author and general editor of the Dictionnaire littéraire des femmes de langue francaise, de Marie de France à Marie NDiaye (Paris: Karthala, 1996.) Currently she is writing on Franco-Caribbean women. E-mail: cjm9@psu.edu.
Moore, John W. Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. B.A., M.A. Boston College; M.A., Ph.D. Stanford, 1971. Fields of specialization: The English Renaissance. Editor, Annotated Spenser Bibliography. Projects underway include bibliographical and critical work on Spenser and other Renaissance writers. E-mail: jwm2@psu.edu.
Rubinstein, S. Leonard. Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature. A.S.T.P, Stanford University; B.L., Rutgers University; M.F.A., State University of Iowa. Fields of specialization: fiction writing, humanities, short story, curiosity. Novels: The Battle Done; The Grave-maker's House (with Robert G. Weaver); Madeleine (with Pamela West Katkin). Textbooks: Writing: A Habit of Mind and five co-authored textbooks. Articles published in: College English, The Writer, AAHE Bulletin, Journal of Teaching Writing, Technology Illustrated, The Underground Grammarian, The American Voice. 260 radio programs: “Odyssey Through Literature.” E-mail: slr4@cac.psu.edu
Strasser, Gerhard F. Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature. Staatsexamen Munich, 1965; Ph.D. Brown University, 1974. Fields of specialization: Renaissance and Baroque literature; universal language theories of the Early Modern Period; seventeenth-century travel literature; history of cryptology; history of education. Publications include the book Lingua Universalis: Kryptologie und Theorie der Universalsprachen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (1988); the co-edition of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) (1993); Emblematik und Mnemonik der Frühen Neuzeit im Zusammenspiel (The Interaction Between Emblematics and Mnemonics in the Early Modern Period), which appeared in 2000 in the series, Wolfenbüttel Studies in Baroque Research, and the 2004 co-edition of a symposium at the Herzog August Bibliothek on Die Domänen des Emblems, which emphasizes his recent focus on emblematics and mnemonics. In the spring of 2002, he organized an exhibit at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel on the occasion of the 400th birthday of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century German universal scholar, for which a "virtual tour" is available at http://www.hab.de/ausstellung/kircher/index.htm. Dr. Straßer has returned to his native Bavaria and continues his research work at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, where he just completed an 81-page chapter on "The Rise of Cryptology in the Renaissance" for a Handbook of the History of Information Security (ed. by K. de Leeuw) to be published by Elsevier in Amsterdam. Together with Dr. Thomas Stäcker of the Herzog August Bibliothek, he is organizing a fall, 2007, symposium at the Wolfenbüttel Library on "Leser und Leseverhalten an Bibliotheken in der Frühen Neuzeit." E-mail: gfs1@psu.edu.
Walden, Daniel. Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature. B.A. City College of New York, M.A.–Columbia University, Ph.D. New York University, 1964. Fields of specialization: urban ethnic studies, Black, Jewish and minority literatures, and twentieth-century fiction. Editor of the periodical Studies in American Jewish Literature and author of On Being Jewish: American Jewish Writers From Cahan to Bellow; American Reform, The Ambiguous Legacy; Twentieth Century American Jewish Fiction Writers; co-author of On Being Black, Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present; and Readings in American Nationalism. Currently writing on Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Chaim Potok, Cynthia Ozick, and Richard Wright. Office: 455 Burrowes (814.865.0068). E-mail: dxw8@psu.edu.
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