Curriculum Vitae


Jason Kent Brooks
Department of Comparative Literature
311 Burrowes Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
jkb171@psu.edu



Education


Present:  ABD, Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

Dissertation: “Twice-Born Tragedies: A Study of Russian Silver Age Translations of Greek Tragedy”

            Dissertation Advisor: Adrian Wanner

            Dissertation Committee: Paul Harvey, Michael Naydan, Dan Berman, Tom Beebee

 

2002:  M.A., Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

            M.A. Thesis: “Directing the Reader: Khodasevich’s ‘Sorrento Photographs’ and Montage”

                        Thesis Reader: Adrian Wanner

1996—2000:  B.A., with High Honors, Comparative Literature (minor in Russian), The University of California, Davis

Honor’s Thesis: "Resolution In The Key Of Christ: A Study Of The Representation Of The Dionysiac In The Poetry Of Viacheslav Ivanov"
            Thesis Advisor: Harriet Murav
            Thesis Readers: Seth Schein, Juliana Schiesari

 

Languages


English

Ancient Greek

Latin

Russian

French

Sumerian

Old Russian

 

Academic Interests


Russian Symbolist Poetry

Poetry of Ancient Greece and Rome, esp. tragedy and epic

Translation Studies

Film Studies

Semiotics

Teaching and Professional Experience

 

Fall 2000—Present:  Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

Fall 2007: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization—Internet Version), Lecturer

Fall 2007: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Lecturer

Summer 2007: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Pre-Doctoral Lecturer

Spring 2007: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization—Internet Version), Course Designer (in progress)

Spring 2007: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Lecturer

Fall 2006: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Lecturer

Fall 2006: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization—Internet Version), Course Designer (in progress)

Summer 2006: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization—Internet Version), Course Designer (in progress)

Summer 2006: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Lecturer

Spring 2006: LATIN 003 (Intermediate Latin), Graduate Lecturer

Spring 2006: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization), Graduate Lecturer

Spring 2006: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Lecturer

Fall 2005: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2005: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), TA for Dan Berman

Summer 2005: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Spring 2005: CAMS 004 (Jewish & Christian Foundations; cross listed with Jewish Studies and Religious Studies), TA for Margaret Cohen

Fall 2004: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2004: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Course Designer (details available upon request)

Summer 2004: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Summer 2003: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Spring 2003: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2002: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), Lead TA for Juana Djelal

Summer 2002: CAMS 45 Web (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Spring 2002: CAMS25 (Greek Civilization), TA for Aristoula Georgiadou
Fall 2001: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), TA for David Engel

Summer 2001: CAMS 45 Web (Classical Mythology—Internet Version), Graduate Instructor

Spring 2001: CAMS 25 (Greek Civilization), Lead TA for Aristoula Georgiadou

Fall 2000: CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology), TA for David Engel

Fall 2006-Spring 2007: Lycée Suzanne Valadon and Lycée Leonard Limousin, Limoges, France

            Fall 2006-Spring 2007: English as a Foreign Language, “Assistant de langue”

2003-2004: Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, Santa Cruz, CA

            2003-2003: Latin (elementary – Advanced Placement), Introduction to Foreign Languages (7th grade), Teacher

Fall 2003: Department of English, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

            Fall 2003: ENGL 100 (Elements of Writing), Adjunct Faculty

Summer 2002—Spring 2003: Department of Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

Spring 2003: CMLIT 108 (Myths and Mythologies), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2002: CMLIT 108 (Myths and Mythologies), Graduate Instructor

Summer 2002: CMLIT 184 (Short Story), Graduate Instructor

Summer 2002: Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University

            Summer II, 2002: ENGL 184 (The Short Story), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2002—Spring 2003:  Department of Continuing Education

            Spring 2003: CMLIT 108 (Myths and Mythologies), Graduate Instructor

            Fall 2002: CMLIT 108 (Myths and Mythologies), Graduate Instructor

Fall 2001:  World Campus, The Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Assistant in Course Preparation, CAMS 45 (Classical Mythology) with David Engel
Spring 2001—Fall 2001:  Department of Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University

Research Assistant to Aminadav Dykman

1999—2000:  Department of Classics, The University of California, Davis

Spring 1999—Spring 2000:  Undergraduate Research Assistant to David Traill

Fall 1999:  Classics 3 (Roman History), Reader/Grader for Don Abbott

Publications

“Meet Richmond Lattimore/About the Author.”  The Odyssey of Homer.  Trans. Richmond Lattimore.  New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007, appendix, 2-8.

 

“Ovid and the Moderns, by Theodore Ziolkowski.”  Book Review in Comparative Literature Studies, 2007, 44.1-2.

 

“Richmond Lattimore (Biography) [link to bio].”  The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. November 14, 2005.  <http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/PACFTB/bios/biography.cfm?AuthorID=1470>.

           

“‘Directing’ the Reader: Khodasevich’s “Sorrento Photographs” and Montage.”  The Comparatist, Vol. 28, May, 2004, 39-51. [Abstract]

 

“Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Myth.” Chapter in World Mythology textbook under contract with a major university press (in progress; contact

Sydney Aboul-Hosn for details).

Scholarly Papers

“Homeless: Innokenty Annensky’s Confused Place in Russian Modernism.”  Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Fordham University, April 2006.

 

“‘Mud Not the Fountain that Gave Drink to Thee’?: The Rape of Lucrece and Alexander Pushkin’s Shakespearean Project.”  American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), The

            Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, March 2005. [Abstract]

 

“Trolling the Lethe: Toward a Typology of Memories and Mnemaphoroi in Holocaust Film.”  30th Annual Conference on Literature and Film,

            The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, January 2005. [Abstract]

 

“Silent Soviet Cyborgia: Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera as Virtual Reality Antecedent.”  American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),

CSU San Marcos, April 2003. [Abstract]

 

“Directing the Reader: Vladislav Khodasevich’s ‘Sorrento Photographs’ and Montage.”  Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA), Univ. Alabama,

Tuscaloosa, October 2002. [Abstract]

 

University and Community Service

Spring 2006: The Twenty-First Annual Graduate Exhibition (The Graduate School at The Pennsylvania State University), Graduate Student Judge

2003—2004: 7th Grade Class Advisor, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, Santa Cruz, CA

2003—2004: Assistant Basketball Coach, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, Santa Cruz, CA

Summer 2002—2003: Affiliate Member, Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity (CORED), The Pennsylvania State University

Spring 2002: The Seventeenth Annual Graduate Exhibition (The Graduate School at the Pennsylvania State University), Graduate Student Judge

 

Honors and Awards

 

Spring 2005: Departmental Nominee for RGSO (Research and Graduate Studies Office) Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award

Spring 2004: Community Service Award, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School (selected by students and faculty advisors)

Spring 2003: Harry C. Rutledge Prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay Presented at the SCLA’s 2002 Conference at the University of Alabama

Spring 2001: Grant from Walter Edwin Thompson-Dr. Regina Bloch Thompson Scholarship Fund for German and Slavic Studies

Spring 2000: Eta Sigma Phi (Classical Honor Society)

Spring 2000: Golden Key National Honor Society

Winter 1998: State Representative, Student California Teachers’ Association

Professional Associations


Modern Language Association

American Comparative Literature Association

International Comparative Literature Association

Southern Comparative Literature Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
American Philological Association

Pennsylvania Classical Association

California Classical Association (Northern Section)

 

References and credentials available upon request.