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EDUCATION
1973-77
1977-78
1978-84
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
1984-86 Assistant Professor of German,
1986-92 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and
German,
1992- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
and German,
Fall, 1993 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright), Department of English,
2000- Professor of Comparative Literature and
German,
2000-01 Visiting Scholar, Romance Languages, The
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction.
The Ideology of Genre: A
Comparative Study of Generic Instability.
Epistolary Fiction: in
Translation:
With Qing-yun Wu. The
Remote Country of Women. By Bai
Hua.
In Progress: True
Imaginary Places: Landscapes of Nation in Modern European and American Fiction (250
pp.)
Eschatechnologies:M illennial Cultures and Literatures of the
Transmesis: Inside Translation's Black Box (80 pp. completed)
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.
Selected Journal Articles (all refereed):
"Orientalism, Absence, and the
Poème en Prose." Rackham Journal of
the Arts and Humanities, 2 (1980):
47-71.
"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
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.
Thomas O. Beebee and Joshua M. Getz. “The Epistolary Politics of Amos Oz’s Black Box.” Prooftexts
18.1 (January 1998). 45-65.
“Tryptichs of Solipsism: The
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and Fogo Morto by José Lins do Rego.”
The Comparatist (1999): 63-88.
Thomas O. Beebee and Beverly Weber.
"A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist
Anti-Poetics." German Quarterly
74.3 (Summer 2001): 257-77.
"They Built Millennium: Jesuits
and Guaranís 1610-1768." Zeitsprünge
6 (2002): 101-19.
“Ways of Seeing
Lenka Pankova and Thomas O. Beebee., "Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars as
Translational Fiction.” Serbian
Studies, to appear December 2004. 7500 words.
"The Canudos Phenomenon: Three Early
Factions." Brazil/Brasil, to
appear. 6500 words.
Selected Book
Chapters:
“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.
“Kant, Goethe, Benjamin, and the Law of
Marriage.” In Worldmaking. Ed. William
Pencak. NY: Lang, 1996.
193-210.
“Epistolary Fiction.” Encyclopedia
of the Novel.
“Cathartic Thinking: Semiotics and Tragic Theory.” In A
Handbook of Semiotics. Ed. Roberta
Kevelson.
"Rebellion in the Backlands." In World
Literature and Its Times, Vol. 1:
Latin-American Literature and its Times.
"The Öffentlichkeit
of Jürgen Habermas: The
Translation:
Co-translator with Qing-yun Wu. "I Think . . . ." By Zhan-chun Geng. Yearbook
of General and Comparative Literature, 38 (1989): 120--33.
Reviews in: Biography ; Clio; Comparative Literature Studies; Journal of English and Germanic Philology;
Luso-Brazilian Review; Yearbook of General and Comparative
Literature
SELECTED PAPERS
AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
"Writing as Ruling in Aphra Behn and Claude
Lévi-Strauss." Annual Convention of
the American Comparative Literature Association,
"Recursivity and Narrative/Life." International Conference on Narrative,
"The Voice of the Translator." American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Convention,
"The Fiction of Translation: Abdelkebir Khatibi's Love in Two Languages" Annual Convention of the American
Comparative Literature Association,
"Death and the Letter in Jean-Paul Marat's
Epistolary Novel." Invited lecture,
“Region and Revolution in Juan Vincent Benet’s Volverás a Región and Euclides da
Cunha’s Os Sertões.” American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Convention,
“The Literature of Theory.” American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Convention,
“A Mulher como escritora de
cartas em várias literaturas.” X Semana
de Estudos Germánicos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, 26 October
1993.
“The Lettered Woman: Variations on a
Metaphor.” Invited lecture,
“Is it Science?
Some Mental Maps in Modern Literature and Criticism.” American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Convention,
“Between Word and Text: The Translating Fictions of Borges,
“Cultural Memory and the Narrativization of
Space.” The International Comparative
Literature Association Triannual Convention,
"Desert Landscape with
Woman: Mary Austin, Nicole Brossard, and
Joy Harjo Translate the American Southwest" ACLA Annual Convention,
"The Y2K Bug, Caesar's Column , Canudos,
"They Built Millennium:
Jesuits and Guaranis 1610-1768." The Fifth Annual Conference on Millennial
Studies,
"Golden Flying Saucers: Ernesto Cardenal and
Millennial Ufology." The Sixth Annual Conference on Millennial Studies,
"Comparative Literature in the
"Transmesis and Postcolonial Reason."
Critical Inquiry: End of Theory?
GRADUATE THESES
SUPERVISED
Thirteen doctoral dissertations (eleven in
Comparative Literature, two in German), and three master’s theses completed
under my supervision, with four more in progress. Also served on thirty
GRANTS
1987 Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant (
1988 Research
Initiation Grant (
1990 NEH
Travel to Collections Grant for research in
1991 Jacobs
Research Fellowship (
1991 Folger
Institute Grant-in-Aid (to attend Folger Seminar and conduct research). $1367
1993 Fulbright
Lecturing/Research Grant, Federal
1997 Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant (
1998-2000 Institute
for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Term Fellowship. $6000
AWARDS &
ACTIVITIES
1977 Phi
Beta Kappa
1979 Delta
Phi Alpha Honor Society for German Scholars, University of
1991 Honorary
Inductee, Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Honor Society
1992 Class
of 1933 Humanities Award,
1993 Eisenhower
Award for Excellence in Teaching,
1994-98 NEH
Evaluation Committee: Summer Stipend
Grants (French, German, and Slavic)
1995-97 CIES
Disciplinary Advisory Committee for Fulbright Scholar Awards (Comparative
Literature)
1999- Representative
of the ACLA to the Field Committee for the National Initiative for a Networked
Cultural
Heritage Project
2001- Editor-in-Chief,
Comparative Literature Studies
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