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Kari Weil
University Professor of LettersShow Bio and Photo
University Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 317
860-685-2306
Director, College of Letters
BA Cornell University
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University
COL206 - 01
Remembering the Self
COL239 - 01
Paris, 19th Century
COL246 - 01
Senior Colloquium
Personal Homepage:
http://kweil.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: T/W 2:30-4 and by appt.
Research Interests: My most recent interests are at the crossroads of literary theory, feminist theory and animal studies during the modern period in Europe and the United States.
Scholarly Keywords: 19th and 20th century French and Comparative Literature; Feminist Theory, Animal Studies
Publications:
http://kweil.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Faculty
Charles Barber
Visiting WriterShow Bio and Photo
Visiting Writer
41 Wyllys Avenue 322
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
41 Wyllys Avenue 2276
BA Harvard University
MFA Columbia University
COL213 - 01
Writing Short Fiction
COL201 - 01
Writing Nonfiction
PSYC331 - 01
Narratives Illness & Recovery
Robert Caldwell
Visiting Assistant Professor of LettersShow BioVisiting Assistant Professor of Letters
Downey House 213
860-685-2079
Visiting Scholar in Classical Studies
BA University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Tuesdays 9:00-11:00 (and by appointment)
Javier Castro-Ibaseta
Assistant Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 220
860-685-2326
Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 325
860-685-2326
BA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
MA Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
PHD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
CHUM356 - 01
Interest and Pleasure
Office Hours: ON LEAVE/SABBATICAL FALL 2013
Research Interests: Public forms of literature (satire, theater) and the formation of the public sphere in early modern Madrid. The Spanish Empire as a global entity.
Scholarly Keywords: Early Modern Spain and Spanish Empire Satire and political life (16th-17th centuries) History and literature
Academic Associations: American Historical Association
Joseph Fitzpatrick
Visiting Assistant Professor of LettersShow BioVisiting Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 328
860-685-2266
BA Harvard University
PHD Duke University
COL108 - 01
Language
COL112 - 01
European Novel
HUMS651 - 01
The Novel as Epic
COL115 - 01
How to Read a Literary Text
COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium
COL338 - 01
Stuff and Nonsense
Ludmila Guenova
Assistant Professor of PhilosophyShow BioAssistant Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 14 LL
860-685-2322
Assistant Professor of Letters
Butterfield Unit C 313
860-685-2322
BA Harvard University
PHD Stanford University
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 4-5pm and by appointment (Squash 319)
Research Interests:
My current book project examines the role of systematicity in Kant's philosophy. I argue that, despite its regulative status, the principle of systematicity must be considered a necessary condition for the possibility of experience on a par with the categories. Appreciating the true import of the principle of systematicity not only forces us to reconsider central tenets of Kant's epistemology, but also, and more generally, it helps us to recognize the deeper connection of theoretical philosophy to aesthetics, teleology, and practical philosophy.
Scholarly Keywords:
Kant, History of Modern Philosophy History of Early Modern Philosophy Aesthetics
Tushar Irani
Assistant Professor of PhilosophyShow Bio and Photo
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Russell House 13 LL
860-685-4462
Assistant Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 321
BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University
COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium
PHIL201 - 01
Philosophical Classics I
Office Hours: On leave 2012-2013.
Research Interests: My research interests focus primarily on Ancient Greek philosophy, particularly the dialogues of Plato, though I have ancillary interests in ethics and in issues surrounding the practice of philosophical inquiry and argument. I'm currently at work on a book, Lovers of Argument: A Study of Plato's Moral Psychology, that explores issues at the intersection of Plato's views in ethics and politics. The central claim is that the way in which we approach argument typically reveals something at a deeper level about our desires and motivations; in particular, since the power of argument lies in its ability to influence others, a proper engagement with argument demands a proper engagement with others. On this reading of Plato, the key to engaging in argument correctly is found in his understanding of erôs. I develop this reading by focusing on the theme of philologia (literally: "love of argument") in Plato's moral psychology and its appearance in four of his works that deal with the topic of love, rhetoric, and the practice of philosophy: the Gorgias, Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus. When complete, this book will offer the first systematic study of Plato's views on the role of human motivation in argument and on the role of argument generally in civic life.
Scholarly Keywords: Plato; Ancient Greek philosophy; moral psychology; ethics (classical and contemporary)
Ethan Kleinberg
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 202
860-685-4479
Professor of Letters
College of Letters
860-685-2323
Director, Center for the Humanities
95 Pearl Street
860-685-4479
Executive Editor
BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University of California LA
PHD University of California LA
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
COL245 - 01
Senior Colloquium
CHUM381 - 01
Student Fellowship
HIST256 - 01
Existentialism in Film
Office Hours: Fall 2013:
Typhaine Leservot
Associate Professor of Romance Languages & LiteraturesShow BioAssociate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
Romance Languages 304
860-685-2386
Associate Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 323
860-685-2386
French Section Head
BA University of Caen
MA University of North Carolina
PHD University of North Carolina
COL241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium
FREN215 - 01
Composition and Conversation
COL298 - 01
Minorities in French Cinema
FREN305 - 01
Negotiating French Identity
Office Hours: Fall 2013: TBA
Research Interests: My first book, _Le Corps mondialise': Marie Redonnet, Maryse Conde, Assia Djebar_ (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007) deals with the impact of the globalization of the media on the female body in Francophone literatures from France, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb. (Book and e-book available at link provided below + fnac.com + amazon.fr) My second research project analyzes diverse case studies in the Francophone world that redefine Francophone Postcolonial theory. Issues covered include: 1/ Accident and postcolonial subjectivity in Maryse Conde's detective fiction, 2/ Occidentalism in Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir _Persepolis_, 3/ The veil affair in Quebec, etc. More to come!
Scholarly Keywords: Francophone Postcolonial Studies. (Identity, citizenship, immigration, globalization). Caribbean Studies. Maghrebi Studies.
Publications:
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=25129
Laurie Nussdorfer
Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
William Armstrong Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 213
860-685-2382
Professor, Medieval Studies
41 Wyllys Avenue 313
860-685-2382
BA Yale University
MA Princeton University
MSC London School Econ & Political
PHD Princeton University
COL104 - 01
Baroque Rome
FGSS269 - 01
Gender and History
COL244 - 01
Junior Colloquium
Personal Homepage:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Office Hours: Fall 2013:
Research Interests: I'm a historian of early modern Rome (1500-1800). My research explores a wide range of topics in political, social, and cultural history from popular politics, print culture, urban space, and legal practices to artists' organizations and men's households. Recently I published the book Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Currently I'm working on Baroque Rome as a "city of men," where males substantially outnumbered females and the clergy held the reins of both domestic and political power.
Scholarly Keywords: early modern Italy, Baroque Rome, notaries and notarial documents, history of masculinity
Academic Associations: American Historical Association, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Grants: Rome Prize, SSRC, ACLS, APS
Publications:
http://lnussdorfer.faculty.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Editorial Boards: Roma Moderna e Contemporanea
Board Memberships: Wesleyan University Press (2007-09)
Leadership Positions: Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies (2010-12)
Michael Printy
Visiting Assistant Professor of LettersShow BioVisiting Assistant Professor of Letters
Butterfield Unit C 512D
860-685-5259
BA Yale University
MA University Calif Berkeley
PHD University Calif Berkeley
PHD University Calif Berkeley
COL110 - 01
The Enlightenment
Personal Homepage:
http://mprinty.site.wesleyan.edu/
Scholarly Keywords:
European intellectual and religious history, German history, the Enlightenment
Academic Associations:
American Historical Association
German Studies Association
Publications:
http://mprinty.site.wesleyan.edu/publications/
Khachig Tölölyan
Professor of LettersShow BioProfessor of Letters
41 Wyllys Avenue 334
860-685-3628
Professor of English
41 Wyllys Avenue 334
860-685-3628
Editor, Diaspora
48 Wyllys Avenue 310
860-685-3628
BA Harvard University
MA University of Rhode Island
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Brown University
COL243 - 01
Junior Colloquium
ENGL295 - 01
Reading Theories
COL249 - 01
Narrative and Ideology
COL256 - 01
Emergence World Literature(s)
Office Hours:
Fall 2011: Tuesday 3:00-5:00PM and by appointment
Office:College of Letters - Room 416C
Research Interests:
How the increasing level of migration and dispersion brings new populations to the West, how these dispersions become ethnic and diasporic, and how these reshape the nations that host them, in culture and politics.
Scholarly Keywords:
Diasporas and transnationalism
The work of Thomas Pynchon
Armenian history, literature, and culture
Academic Associations:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Society of Armenian Studies (SAS)
Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
Zoryan Institute for Armenian DFocumentation and Rsearch (ZI)
Emeriti
Howard Needler
Professor of Letters, EmeritusShow BioProfessor of Letters, Emeritus
BA Oxford University
BS Yale University
MA Oxford University
PHD Columbia University
Office Hours:
M, W, 2.45-4 p. m., or by appointment
Paul Schwaber
Professor of Letters, EmeritusShow BioProfessor of Letters, Emeritus
BA Wesleyan University
MA University Calif Berkeley
PHD Columbia University
Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 4:00-5:00 PM
