WHAT'S UP. AT GC COMPLIT. A Bulletin of the Department of Comparative
Literature at. The Graduate Center, CUNY. SPRING 2013. GRADUATE
STUDENT ...
WHAT’S UP AT GC COMPLIT A Bulletin of the Department of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY
SPRING 2013
GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS K. Paige Ambroziak published an article in the CHE entitled "No One Promised Us a Job" and another article in WRECK: UBC Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory entitled "Poussin's Echo of Ovid."
Kelly Aronowitz presented a paper called "Wrestling pleasure: surrendering desire: an alaysis of Kink.com's "ultimate surrender" at the Feminist Porn Conference at the University of Toronto. Fabio Battista presented at Health, Mental Health, and Literature, graduate conference of English Department at Boston College. The title of his talk is “The Mystic in the Country. Physical Humbling and Mental Disease in Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea” Laura Di Bianco organized a lecture, with film screening, as part of the Italian Specialization’s annual events series. Yulia Greyman presented at Minding the Body, graduate conference of the CUNY Graduate Center’s English Department The title of her talk is “The ‘Doer’ and the ‘Deed’: Subject and Identity in Alva Noë and Judith Butler” Basil Lvov presented a report entitled "Andrey Bely and Boris Eikhenbaum: 'Along the Lines of Journal Criticism'" at the conference 100th Anniversary of Russian Formalism (1913-2013) in Moscow. Jesse Tandler and Ashna Ali organized a lecture as part of the department’s Comparative Literature Colloquium.
FACULTY NEWS André Aciman published his novel Harvard Square (W.W. Norton, 2013) as well as the following articles: “On Loss and Regret,” (The New York Times), “André Aciman’s Favorite Novellas of Unconsummated Loves,” (The Daily Beast), “Art is How we Quarrel with Time,” (The Paris Review Blog), “A Foolhardy Fidelity to Facts,” (The Wall Street Journal), “How I Write,” (The Daily Beast), “An Adverb That Defies Certainty,” (The New York Times), “André Aciman Finds Famous Ghosts Walking on Italian Streets,”(Newsweek). He additionally gave the following talks: “The Mystery of Memory,” (The New York Academy of Sciences), “The Music of Proust,” (Bard Music Festival, Bard College), “On Imperfection,” (La Milanesiana, Milan, Italy). Monica Calabritto published the articles "A family matter turned ugly: the murder of Leone Marescotti, 1522" (in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors. Edited by Machtelt Israels and Louis A. Waldman, Villa I Tatti Series 29, Harvard UP 2013) and "Curing Melancholia in Sixteenth-Century Medical Consilia, between Theory an Practice" (in Medicina nei secoli. Journal of History of Medicine, monographic issue on the subject “Mali del corpo, mali dell’anima: malinconia, consunzione e mal d’amore tra medicina e letteratura”).
Jerry W. Carlson served as a jury member for the New England Festival of Latin American Films hosted by Yale University. He traveled to Paris where he attended the memorial gathering for Chris Marker at the Cinematheque Francaise. For the tv series CANAPE he interviewed filmmaker Constantin Costa Gavras (president of the CF) and Serge Toubiana (director of the CF) about the importance of Marker's work. He traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria to deliver a set of lectures on American cinema at the So Independent Film Festival. He attended the 3er Foro Internacional de Television: TVMORFOSIS Convergencia: escenario para una television interactiva hosted by the International Book Fair at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico). He spoke (in Spanish) on the panel dedicated to alternatives resources for cultural television in a market society. The session was broadcast live on Mexican & Colombian public television. Additionally, he received several awards this year for his work on series that he produces for CUNY TV: Emmy Award as Outstanding Arts Program Feature/Segment for "Nueva York: Fernando Perez" from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; Communicator Award for the segment "Canape: Alice Ritter in Fashionland" from the International Academy of Visual Arts; Communicator Award for the segment "Canape: Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist Monk-Photographer" from the International Academy of Visual Arts. In addition, he has been on the road giving papers at several conferences: "The Maid's Son in Nancy Savoca's Dirt" at the Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900; "A New Independent Cinema: Transnational Dominican Films" at the Visualizing the Caribbean Conference, Stanford University; "The Spaces of Jewish Buenos Aires in the Film Trilogy of Daniel Burman" at XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Clare L. Carroll co-directed with Marc Caball the NEH Summer Seminar entitled Researching Early Modern Manuscripts and Printed Books. Highlights included the group's visits to the Grolier Club where Giles Mandelbrote (Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library) explained how to track down the provenance of manuscripts and printed books in sale catalogues, and to the Columbia Rare Books Collection where participants examined annotations in the hands of Erasmus and Luther in one of the first printed editions of Homer's works. CUNY faculty Lia Schwartz and Monica Calabritto also gave presentations on their work: Prof. Schwartz on her edition of a hitherto unknown manuscript of Quevedo's "La fortuna y seso" at the Hispanic Society of America, and Prof. Calabritto on early printed medical consilia at the NY Academy of Medicine. In addition to attending lectures by curators at the Morgan, Union Theological, and NY Public Libraries, the seminar participants were doing their own research in these collections on such diverse topics as alba amicorum (manuscripts with signatures, poems, and illustrations exchanged by friends), the hand painted decorations in Florentine incunabula, the relation between manuscript and early printed editions of English chronicles, and the global reach of the printing press of Pedro Craesbeeck in Lisbon.
Vincent Crapanzano gave a lecture entitled "Must We Be Good Epistemologists?" at the University of Cambridge, and the translation of his Harki book The Wound that Never Heals, received an enormously long and positive review in Francophone Algerian newspaper. This is the first time the Algerians have allowed anything positive or even objective to be published about them. Evelyne Ender was appointed to the Editorial Board of PMLA in the fall of 2012. As part of the celebration for the anniversary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann she presented a talk entitled “Inside a Red Cover: Proust and the Art of the Book” at the Proust and the Arts conference at Harvard University. At the 20/21st Century French and Francophone Studies in Atlanta, she spoke on Beckett, Proust, and memory (“La mémoire proustienne à l’épreuve de Beckett”). She translated into French, for Editions Garnier, her chapter on nineteenth-century lyrical poetry that first appeared in French Global: A New French Literary History (Columbia University Press, 2010). She published the essay “Poètes en mal de pays: les paradoxes du lyrisme dans la France du dix-neuvième siècle” and spoke at the Graduate Center, at the invitation of James Melo and the Ensemble of the Romantic Century, on “Fashioning Modernism: Rimbaud meets Verlaine meets Debussy”. In connection to her book in progress she spoke at the MLA on George Sand (“Une plume qui court sur le papier: avancées technologiques et créativité”) and presented a lecture at the Université de Lausanne entitled “Les sentiers de la création: Chopin, Sand et les neurosciences.” She also gave two lectures and a seminar at Emory University: “In Search of the Creative Brain: Frederic Chopin and George Sand” (Department of Comparative Literature), “Handwriting: The Brain, the Hand, the Eye, the Ear” (Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture), and “Louise Bourgeois’s Memory Cells” (Emory Psychoanalytic Studies Program). Eugenia Paulicelli was Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor and Colston Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bristol University (March 18th-24th, 2013). She co-edited the special issue of the journal Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ), dedicated to fashion. She published the following articles and book chapters: “Cronaca di un amore: Fashion and Italian Cinema in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Films (1949-1955),” (in Graziella Parati, ed., New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies, Vol. 2: The Arts and History, Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press), “Veiling and Fashion in the Italian Cinquecento,” (in Cristina Giorcelli. ed., Abito e Identitá. Ricerche di Storia Letteraria e Culturale, Vol. XII, Palermo and Rome: La Palma), “Rome: Eternal City of Fashion and Film,” (in eds, J. Hancock II, T. Johnson-Woods & V. Karaminas, Fashion in Popular Culture. Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies, Bristol). She also took part in the Seminar for High School Italian Teachers held at the Italian Consulate in New York with “Teaching Italian Language and Culture with La Moda”; presented the screening of the film Le Amiche by Michelangelo Antonioni at the Italian Cultural Institute as part of celebrations of 150 th anniversary of Italian Unification; and gave lectures on “La Moda tra lingue e culture: il
Compito del Traduttore,” at the University of Bari, Italy; “Italian Fashion in the Post-War Years,” Parsons, The New School of Design; “Italian Style: Fashion & Film during the Boom Years,” Montclair State University. Finally, she organized or co-organized: a lecture by the Italian writer Jadel Andreetto for the Italian Program, Queens College; the series Ad(d)ressing Style: Conversation in the Visual Arts (2010 to the present) held at the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’, New York University (speakers included: Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan); the symposium on Fashion & Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center (speakers included: Susan Buck Morss, Sarah Scaturro, MET); Jessamyn Hatcher (NYU); Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design); a lecture by Professor Anne R. Jones, Cesare Vecellio’s Middle Eastern Representations.
DEPARTMENT NEWS AND EVENTS Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Rosalind E. Krauss (Columbia University), Diana Knight (University of Nottingham), D.A. Miller (University of California, Berkeley), Lucy O’Meara (University of Kent) delivered the keynote talks at the Department’s Literary Theory Graduate Conference “The Renaissance of Roland Barthes”. Nicoletta Maraschio (Accademia della Crusca and Università di Firenze) gave a talk entitled “New Findings on the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca”, as part of the annual series of lectures organized by the Italian Specialization and supported by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation. Marilyn Migiel (Cornell University) gave a talk entitled “Boccaccio and Women”, as part of the annual series of lectures organized by the Italian Specialization and supported by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation. Marina Spada (filmmaker) presented and discussed her film “Il mio domani”, with Aine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles) as her respondent, as part of the annual series of lectures organized by the Italian Specialization, supported by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation and by the Doctoral Students’ Council.
