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Comparative Literature
The Committee on Comparative Literature provides the interpretive tools and the critical perspectives on which a sound humanistic education is based. The faculty and courses juxtapose the products of two or more cultures, works of literature and art, to explore their similaritieis and differences. The faculty in this interdisciplinary program comprises diverse individuals who are familiar with several national cultures and languages.
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Windows on Iran
Iranian-American scholar posts daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran
June 22,
2009 --
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An Iranian-American scholar at Washington University in St. Louis has been posting daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran as part of her long-running electronic newsletter on cultural, political and social issues in Iran. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, posts news, filled with cell phone videos and firsthand anecdotes from friends and academic contacts within Iran, at Windows on Iran Web site. She is available for media interviews on the day-to-day news reports she's receiving from contacts within Iran and for broader discussions of the cultural context of these events, including the role of women and the unique ways that this protest is being shaped by the use of cell phones, instant messaging and other online social media.
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Who are you?
Gerald Izenberg explores a formation of identity for March 21 Assembly Series
March 9,
2007 -- Gerald N. Izenberg, Ph.D., professor of history and co-director of the Literature and History Program, both in Arts & Sciences, will examine the complex notions of identity in a series of programs, beginning with the Assembly Series lecture, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 21 in Graham Chapel. The Assembly Series talk is free and open to the public. Expanding on this theme, he will give a talk on "The Varieties of 'We': Collective Identities and their Conflicts," for the Center for the Humanities, in which currently is a Faculty Fellow. The event begins at noon, Friday, March 23 in McDonnell Hall, Room 162. The final event, provided for the Century Series of the University's Alumni & Development Programs, will be on "What, If Anything, Does Democracy Owe Identity?" at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 26, in Lab Sciences 300.
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Arnold Schönberg symposium and concert
Department of Music to explore rarely performed work by Viennese composer Feb. 24
Feb. 16,
2006 -- The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present a symposium and concert dedicated to the work of Viennese composer Arnold Schönberg. The symposium will focus on Schönberg's relationship with Kandinsky and the Expressionist movement, while the concert will feature a rare performance of his famously demanding Herzgewächse (Foliage of the Heart) by music students and faculty.
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Joseph Loewenstein
Professor of English in Arts & Sciences
Joseph Loewenstein's recent books — "The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright" (2002) and "Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship" (2002) — are studies of Early Modern intellectual property, the prehistory of modern copyright, but he is also extremely interested in prosody and poetics. ...
Expertise: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Jonson, Renaissance poetry and drama, poetics, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4404
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jfloewen@wustl.edu
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Paul Lützeler
Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities
Lützeler teaches in both the German Department and the Comparative Literature Program. His research and teaching interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. ...
Expertise: German Romanticism, European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses, postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4784
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jahrbuch@wustl.edu
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Henry Schvey
Chair, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Schvey has lectured and published extensively in the areas of modern European, British and American drama. Among his most significant writings are an interdisciplinary study of the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka: The Painter as Playwrite, a collection of essays on contemporary American drama, ...
Expertise: contemporary theatre, contemporary drama, American theatre, British theatre, European theatre, Oskar Kokoschka, Holocaust remebrance, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5858
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hischvey@wustl.edu
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