Although he has read it once before, Jason Oberholtzer ’08 wants another crack at a book that he says “nobody” reads. More ...

Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, presented a paper at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) held in Philadelphia on Dec. 28-30. Her presentation was titled “Laughter and the Anxiety of Ethnicity: The New Caucasian Woman in Kavkazskaia Plennitsa and Qayinana.” 
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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan of Ohio State University gave a joint paper titled “The Rhetoric of the River: Space and Setting in Huckleberry Finn” at Ohio State University on Nov. 13. More ...

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented her current research on the modern performance of Greek tragedy on Nov. 21 at Dartmouth University. In her paper, "The Anti-Imperialist Uses of Greek Tragedy," she discussed plays produced in order to critique the current War in Iraq. More ...

The Ohio State University Press series “Theory and Interpretation of Narrative,” co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, has just published its 30th volume: Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem by Monique Morgan. More ...

Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was the guest of the Classics Department at Skidmore College on Monday Oct. 26. She was their fall speaker and gave an address based on her current research, titled "Tragedy's Women as Subject and Object of the Gaze." More ...

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz gave a paper at a symposium on Narrative, Science, and Performance sponsored by Ohio State University’s Project Narrative on Oct. 2. More ...

"Understanding Rhetorical Nuance: Western Music and Narrative Theory," by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has appeared in Xushi Congkan (Narrative Series 1), edited by Fu Xiu-Yan and published by the China Social Sciences Publishing House in Beijing. The article, in a Chinese translation by Zhou Jingbo, is based on the plenary talk Rabinowitz originally delivered at the First International Narratological Conference, sponsored by the Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences in 2007. More ...

"Theory and Interpretation of Narrative," the Ohio State University Press series co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, has just published its 29th volume: Patrick Colm Hogan's Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity. More ...

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, "The Absence of Her Voice from that Concord," during a session on the "implied author" at the International Conference on Narrative in Birmingham, England, on June 5. The session, which grew out of debates about the implied author generated at the 2008 Narrative Conference, offered three significantly different perspectives on the validity of the concept, originally developed by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. More ...