Area of concentration
Early Modern French, English, and Italian prose; The Baroque; the development of the European novel; Classical literature and its influence on modern texts; 19th and early 20th century novels.
Languages
French (near-native fluency), Italian (reading knowledge), Latin (fair)
Couses taught
Introductory French (French 101); Text: Deux Mondes
Classical Literature (writing intensive) (CMLIT 101W); Texts: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Plautus.
Renaissance Literature (CMLIT 212); Satire; Texts: Petronius, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Erasmus, Rabelais, Cervantes, Molière.
Composition (Eng. 101): Dialects and the English Language; Texts: Selected essays.
Advanced Composition (Eng. 102); Texts: Selected short stories.
Classical Literature (Lit 230); Texts: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Plautus.
Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Lit 231); Texts: Beowulf, Chaucer, Dante, Machiavelli, Malory, Marlowe, Shakespeare.
Modern European Literature (Lit 232): Crime and Punishment; Texts: Dostoevsky, Camus, Kafka, Nabokov.
American Literature (Lit 233): New York City Literature; Texts: Whitman, Lazarus, Wharton, Hughes, McKay, Baldwin.
Introduction to Literature (Core 6); Texts: Dante, Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Fitzgerald.