A book co-authored by Peter J. Rabinowitz, the Sidney Wertimer Professor of Comparative Literature, was among those selected by Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2012.

Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of eight Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.

A book co-authored by Peter Rabinowitz, the Sidney Wertimer Professor of Comparative Literature, was the subject of a positive review in Choice (Oct. 2012). Narrative theory: core concepts and critical debates, by David Herman et. al. ( Ohio State, 2012) is called “a wonderful resource for introducing students to four major approaches to the study of narrative and the major debates on the subject of narrative.”

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).

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.

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.

“Cats, Dogs, and Social Minds: Learning from Alan Palmer—and Sixth Graders,” by Corinne Bancroft ’10 and Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has appeared in a special issue of Style.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz has published “‘The Absence of Her Voice from that Concord’: The Value of the Implied Author” in a special issue of Style. The essay is an expansion and refinement of a paper originally given at the International Conference on Narrative in Birmingham, England, in 2009.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz has published “‘The Impossible Has a Way of Passing Unnoticed’: Reading Science in Fiction” in the May issue of Narrative. The article is a development of a paper originally delivered in 2009 at a symposium on narrative, science and performance at Ohio State University.

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.