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JOANNE BERNARDI, Associate Professor of Japanese
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1992. Based on primary and secondary original-language sources, Joanne Bernardi's Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement (2001) examines Japanese silent film of the 1910s with a focus on Pure Film discourse and its intersection with changing international attitutudes toward film production and consumption. Current courses include History of Japanese cinema, Japanese animation and contemporary Japanese literature; current research includes projects on Japan as a tourist destination (1890s-1950), screenwriter Yoda Yoshikata, and the shinpa and chain drama film.
JENNIFER CREECH, Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2006. Professor Creech’s research and teaching interests include 20th-century German literature, film and culture; cinema studies; Marxist and feminist theories; women’s literature; ideology and utopia. In the past, she has taught courses on the body in 20th-century German literature and film, and on East German culture. While at the University of Rochester this year, she will teach courses on East German cinema, West German avant-garde cinema, Gender & Sexuality in the 20th century, and on German Cultural Studies.
Professor Creech’s most recent publications explore the critical impulses in East German women’s films. She has presented papers on East German cinema and on post-unification representations of the East. Her current research projects involve an investigation of women’s films in the former Eastern bloc and post-socialist identity.
She was awarded a DAAD Fellowship for 2002-2003 to complete research at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and was also a 2003 recipient of the Humanities Institute Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.
THOMAS DiPIERO, Professor of French
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988. Thomas DiPiero's most recent book, White Men Aren't (Duke UP, 2002), analyzes the significance of psychoanalytic theory's near complete disregard for the question of race. Basing his critique on Greek tragedies, early modern travel literature, and contemporary film and literature, he argues that whiteness and masculinity are forms of hysteria that naturalize as logic and reason positions that are decidedly political. His first book, Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569-1791 (Stanford UP, 1992), examines the development of the novel in France, especially as it pertains to the rhetorical strategies known as "realism." Along with Pat Gill, he edited Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Europe (Georgia, 1996). In addition, he is the author of a number of articles on French literature and philosophy of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as on psychoanalytic theory and gender studies. He is currently working on a book on ambivalence. Professor DiPiero teaches courses on early modern French literature, psychoanalysis, race and gender, and contemporary Europe.
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JOHN GIVENS, Associate Professor of Russian
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993. Professor Givens teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and Russian film. He is the author of Prodigal Son: Vasilii Shukshin in Soviet Russian Culture (Northwestern UP, 2000) and the translator (with Laura Michael) of Vasilii Shukshin, Stories from a Siberian Village (Northern Illinois UP, 1996). He is also editor (since 1999) of Russian Studies in Literature, a journal of translations from the Russian literary press. He has published articles on the works of Russian writers Ivan Goncharov, Vsevolod Garshin, Valentine Rasputin, Tatyana Tolstaya, Joseph Brodsky and Vasilii Shukshin. His current research focuses on the image of Jesus Christ in Russian literature. In 2000, Professor Givens received the Edward Peck Curtis Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Professor of the Year Award in Humanities from the University of Rochester Student Association.
SUSAN E. GUSTAFSON, Professor of German
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987. Professor Gustafson was a Taft Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cincinnati in 1986-87. She was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for study in Bonn in 1991-92. She received a Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship forh er PMLA article on Lessing's abjection of feminine imagination in 1992. She also obtained an NEH grant in 1995. Gustafson's book Men Desiring Men received the 2004 GSA/DAAD outstanding book award for the best book published on German language, literature and culture in 2002 and 2003. Professor Gustafson has served for three years as the Curriculum Director for the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies (1999-2002) and is currently the Director of the SBAI. Gustafson continues to research Goethe and 18th and 19th century topics in general.
Professor Gustafson's scholarly publications have focused on 18th-20th century German literature and aesthetics, comparative literary projects, gender, feminism, psychoanalysis, narrative, and horror fiction. Her first book, Absent Mothers and Orphaned Fathers: Narcissism and Abjection in Lessing's Aesthetic and Dramatic Production (Wayne State UP, 1995), explicated the theoretical basis for the rigid codification of gender that informs G.E. Lessing's fictional symbolic order. Drawing from feminism and psychoanalysis, Absent Mothers challenges German scholars to rethink the ways in which aesthetic models contribute tot he abjection of women (here specifically mothers). Professor Gustafson's second book, Men Desiring Men: The Poetry of Same-Sex Identity and Desire in German Classicism (Wayne State UP, 2002) traces the paradigmatic representation of male same-sex desire and the creation of new aesthetic languages of the same-sex desire and identity in German classicism from Winkelmann, Goethe, and Moritz to Thomas Mann. This study challenges Foucault's assumption that something like a "homosexual identity" first emerges in the later 19th century. It turns our attention from discourses of pathology generated by institutions of law, medicine, and psychology to discourses of resistance and self-fashioning by men desiring men. Professor Gustafson has published numerous articles on Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, Hoffmann, Kafka, Dickens and 18th-20th century German literature in general. Professor Gustafson's most recent research focuses on bestsellers in German by contemporary women writers to include: Karin Duve, Judith Hermann, Zoe Jenny, Alexa Hennig von Lange, and Tanja Dueckers.
Among others, Professor Gustafson teaches courses on: Sexuality and Gender in the 18th Century; Monsters, Ghosts and Aliens; Bestsellers in Germany; Poe and Hoffmann; and Freud.
GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
DAAD
2004 BOOK PRIZE
Outstanding Book in Germanistics, Culture Studies, and Literature
--Awarded to--
Susan E. Gustafson
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
University of Rochester
for her book
"Men Desiring Men: The Poetry of Same-Sex Identity and Desire in German Classicism"
JUNE HWANG , Assistant Professor of German
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007. Her area of concentration is early twentieth-century literature and film with an emphasis on German Jewish topics and her teaching and research interests include urban spaces, modernity, film theory, and critical theory. Her current research explores how discourses of wandering, urban alienation, and the stranger intersect in the figure of the German Jewish intellectual. She was a fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies in 2003-4.
BETH E. JÖRGENSEN, Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1986. Her research has focused on contemporary Spanish-American narrative (fiction and testimonial), with a particular interest in women writers and feminist theory. Beth Jörgensen’s primary areas of research within the field of Spanish-American literature include women writers and feminist theory, and theories and practice of nonfiction literature, especially the chronicle and testimonial writing. She has published The Writing of Elena Poniatowska: Engaging Dialogues (1994), and she has co-edited The Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre (2002) with Ignacio Corona of Ohio State University. Her new rendition of the E. Munguía, Jr. translation of Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela with accompnaying notes was published as The Underdogs in 2002. Published research articles also examine the writings of Margo Glantz, Isabel Allende, Benita Galeana and Carlos Monsiváis.
Jörgensen teaches courses for the Spanish, Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies programs on many topics of 20th century Spanish American literature and cultures, including women writers, theater, poetry, Boom and post-Boom narrative, and nonfiction prose. From 2002 to 2004 she served as the president of Feministas Unidas, a coalition of feminist scholars working in the areas of Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian, and U.S.-Latino studies. Feministas Unidas is an allied organization of the Modern Language Association.
Professor Jörgensen's Home Page.
CILAS KEMEDJIO, Associate Professor of French
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1995. Fields of research include Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, French theory, French novel (20th century), and cultural studies. Published articles on Foucault, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Camerounian Literature.
JULIE PAPAIOANNOU , Assistant Professor of French (Visiting)
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2002. Her research and teaching interests include French literature, culture, and film, Francophone film, French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory, and film theories. Currently working on women filmmakers in Francophone Africa and the social discourse in the representation of women in most recent film production. Her most recent research interest includes the production of literature by the African diaspora in France. Her published and forthcoming articles focus on issues of authenticity and orality in Francophone African cinema.
KATHLEEN PARTHÉ, Professor of Russian,Director of Russian Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1979. She has published two books, Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past (Princeton, 1992), Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines (Yale, 2004), numerous articles on Tolstoy, 20th century Russian literature, and Russian national identity, and a study on post-Soviet Russia conducted with Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, which is available on-line.
http://www.loc.gov/about/welcome/speeches/russianperspectives/index.html
DAVID POLLACK, Professor of Japanese
Ph.D., Berkeley, 1976. He is the author of Zen Poems of the Five Mountains (Scholars Press, 1985), The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries (Princeton, 1986), and Reading Against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel (Cornell, 1992). The author of numerous articles on Japanese literature, art, religion, and culture, his current projects include rhetorical strategies in Matsuo Basho's haiku poetry, the cultural history of Kyoto, and studies in various aspects of Edo art and literature. He teaches courses on Japanese culture, literature, drama, art, and urban history.
Professor Pollack's Home Page.
RYAN PRENDERGAST, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Emory, 2003. He is currently working on a study of Spanish Golden Age literature's incorporation of-and response to-the Spanish Inquisition's arbitrary imposition of discourses of control and power. His main area of specialty is 16th and 17th-century Spanish literature and culture and his teaching and research interests include medieval Spanish literature, colonial Latin American literature, transatlantic approaches to early modern Hispanic literature and culture, Don Quijote and the Picaresque novel.
* Ryan Prendergast was admitted to an NEH Institute on "Inquisitions and Persecutions in Early Modern Europe and the Americas" at the University of Maryland, College Park for the Summer 2005
RAUL RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997. His book on Juan García Ponce and Mexican modernity, entitled " Mexico's Ruins: Juan Garcia Ponce and the writing of Mexican Modernity," is forthcoming from SUNY Press. He has published extensively on Hispanic literatures and cultures, including postmodern fiction, cinema, alterity and/in art, and European philosophical traditions represented in Latin American texts. Questions of the aesthetic representation of the "past," and how writers and artists of the twenty-first century seek to incorporate the cultural remains of the past millenium are central to his research.
FRIEDERIKE SELIGMAN , Assistant Professor of Russian
CLAUDIA SCHAEFER, Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1979. Her latest book, Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain (SUNY Press, 2003), examines films of the 1990s in light of their genres and social contexts. Previous publications include Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture (1996), Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico (1992), Juan Goytisolo: del realismo crítico a la utopía (1984), and articles on post-Franco Spain, detective fiction, popular culture, millennial debates, and sociocultural studies of prose and film. Her interests — both research and teaching — encompass all aspects of cultural production in Latin America and Spain of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain.
DONATELLA STOCCHI-PERUCCHIO, Associate Professor of Italian
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1986. Her fields of interest are Italian literature--focusing on Medieval Studies, Dante, and the intersection of Literature, History, and Theology--and Italian culture approached from the point of view of its characteristic interdisciplinary nature. She is the author of Pirandello and the Vagaries of Knowledge: A Reading of Il fu Mattia Pascal (1991). Her current research project is a book on the problem of heresy as an aesthetic category in the poetry of Dante
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