
RF
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of English
Office location and address
232 Bryan Hall
201 Cabell Dr
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22904
Education
Ph.D. Monash University, 1987
M.A. Monash University, 1982
B.A. Cambridge University, 1979
M.A. Monash University, 1982
B.A. Cambridge University, 1979
Publications
Courses
Credits: 3
This course has two parts. The first half offers a survey of influential styles of critical reading, including psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and several styles of political interpretation. The second half invites students to think theoretically yet sympathetically about affective dimensions of reader response such as identification, empathy, enchantment, and shock.
Credits: 3
This course has two parts. The first half offers a survey of influential styles of critical reading, including psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and several styles of political interpretation. The second half invites students to think theoretically yet sympathetically about affective dimensions of reader response such as identification, empathy, enchantment, and shock.
Credits: 3
Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
An advanced seminar that studies issues presented when considering literature in its transnational context, paying special attention to comparison. Focus on the modern and contemporary period, but we consider also earlier periods. 2 essays and final exam. This course is required for the Graduate Certificate in Comparative Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
'Critical method' is the point at which general philosophical or political claims intersect with specific techniques of interpretation. The aim of this course is to give students a thorough introduction to current debates in the methodology of literary and cultural studies in ways that will aid their own future thinking and writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1–3
A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students in English doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of Graduate Studies in English. Only one may be offered for Ph.D credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
Topics vary from year to year.
Honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship 2010
- SW Brooks Visiting Lecturer in English, University of Queensland 2010
- Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Professor, McMaster University 2005
- Research Fellow, Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna 2000
- George A. Miller Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, 1998
- Australian Research Council Major Grant 1993
- Fellowship, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia. 1991
- Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 1989-1990
- William Parker Riley Prize, best article in PMLA