Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Julie-Françoise Kruidenier Tolliver ’02 and her CompLit 326 class spent the weekend of April 15-17 exploring Ottawa, Canada’s national capital.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, “Putting Fiction to the Test,” at the International Conference on Narrative in St. Louis on April 8. Returning to issues initially raised in some of his earlier work, Rabinowitz centered on a series of questions concerning the border between fiction and non-fiction.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz published an article, “On Teaching The Story of O: Lateral Ethics and the Conditions of Reading,” in the Journal of Literary Technique.

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a lecture titled "Why We Turn to Greek Tragedy in Times of War" at the conference "Eight Years in Babylon: The Iraq War and the Classics Eight Years On" on March 18 in London.

“A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog,’” by Corinne Bancroft ’10 and Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald, edited by Alexis Gromann and Caragh Wells and published by Palgrave/Macmillan.

“Shakespeare’s Dolphin, Dumbo’s Feather, and Other Red Herrings: Some Thoughts on Intention and Meaning,” by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Style as part of a cluster of articles devoted to Shakespeare’s intentions.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered the keynote address, “Music, Rhetoric, and Narrative: Listening as an Interpretive Act,” to open the first conference sponsored by the Word and Music Association Forum, held at the University of Dortmund, Germany, from Nov. 4-6.

The Chinese journal Foreign Literature Studies has published a new essay co-authored by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan of Ohio State University: “‘A True Book, with Some Stretchers’”—and Some Humbug: Twain, Huck and the Reader’s Experience of Huckleberry Finn.”

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,  the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented the plenary address at the conference "Girls in Antiquity," sponsored by the German Archaeological Association (DAI) in Berlin. Her topic, "Tragedy's Heroines as Girls," focused on the the ways in which the ages of the female characters who sacrifice themselves contribute to the tragedy, and the ways in which they are represented as both the subject and object of the "gaze."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Julie Kruidenier Tolliver '02 presented a paper at the Cold War Cultures conference at the University of Texas, Austin. The conference brought together scholars of different disciplines working on the Cold War era.