Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Janelle Schwartz has published a guest post on the University of Minnesota Press Blog, titled  “Frankenstein and the worm: Not 'just' another essay on Frankenstein.” The blog is in advance of her forthcoming book Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism ( September 2012).

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was a guest lecturer in a week-long seminar at New York University (NYU) on “Troubling Talk from Antiquity Onward: Sensitive Topics in the Classroom.”

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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz has co-authored Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates with James Phelan, David Herman, Brian Richardson and Robyn Warhol. In the book, published by Ohio State University Press, the authors examine each of the central concepts in current narrative theory from four perspectives: rhetorical (Rabinowitz and Phelan, writing together), feminist (Warhol), mind-oriented (Herman) and anti-mimetic (Richardson).

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, gave a paper titled, “Marriage or Rape? Aeschylus’ Suppliants and Charles Mee’s Big Love” at the British Classical Association meetings in Exeter, U.K.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper titled “Ancient Myth and Feminism: Prison Activism and the Medea Project” at an international conference on “Classical Greek and Roman Literature: Gendered Perspectives in Reading and Reception” at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The “Theory and Interpretation of Narrative” series, published by the Ohio State University Press and co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, James Phelan and Robyn Warhol, recently published its 41st volume, Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Mescall presented a paper on March 17 at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Rochester, N.Y. The paper, titled “The Goodness of Evil: Shekhinah, Lilith and Kabbalah in La Celestina,” was part of a session called “Representing Identity and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.”

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz gave a paper titled “Deceiving the Future: Lermontov and Narratology of the Moment” at the International Conference on Narrative in Las Vegas on March 17.