Paul Oppenheimer


email: pauloppenheimer@hotmail.com

Professor, Comparative Literature and English; at
present, Head of Department, Department of English,
The City College (CUNY)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Comparative medieval
literature
B.A., Princeton University, English, Comparative
literature

Selected Fellowships:

Alfred Hodder Fellowship
(Princeton University); Woodrow Wilson Fellowship;
Fulbright Senior Fellowship (Germany)

Interests:

History of the lyric (especially English,
German, Italian, French, Spanish)

German and Italian folk literature

Baroque art, literature, music (including
modern variations)

Studies of evil in literature, film,
psychology, history, philosophy

The Faust legend, the Tristan Legend

Recent Courses:

Gateways to the Modern: The Baroque in Art and
Literature

Devil Pacts and Rash Promises: the Hinge of
Plot in Art and Literature

The Invention of Silence: A History of the
Modern Lyric and its Revolutionary Influences

Jesters, Rogues, Fools, Quacks, Conmen and
Spies: the real Subversives in Western
Literature

The Faust Legend

The Tristan Legend

Books:

Before a Battle and Other Poems. Harcourt, Brace.
A Pleasant Vintage of Till Eulenspiegel.
   Translated with Introduction and Critical
   Appendix. Wesleyan University Press.
Beyond the Furies: new poems. With ten etchings
   By Burt Hasen. Editions Faust: Paris and New
   York.
The Birth of the Modern Mind: Self, Consciousness
   and the Invention of the Sonnet
. Oxford
   University Press.
Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures. (2nd rev.
   edtn.) Garland Publishing.
Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures. (3rd rev.
   edtn.) Oxford World's Classics.
Evil and the Demonic: A New Theory of Monstrous
   Behavior
. Duckworth (U.K.), New York University
   Press, plus paperback edtn.
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Guilt.
   Duckworth (U.K.); Madison Books (U.S.)edition:
   Infinite Desire: A Guide to Modern Guilt.
Rubens: A Portrait. (Biography.) Duckworth
   (U.K.); Cooper Square (U.S.) edition.
Blood Memoir, or The First Three Days of
   Creation
. (Fiction.) Marsilio Publishers.
Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures. (4th rev.
   edtn.) Routledge.
The Flame Charts: new poems. Spuyten Duyvil
   Press.

Articles:

Over 80 articles in such places as American
Book Review
, US magazine, The International
Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence

(political analysis), The New Leader (political
reporting from Germany; reviews), London Magazine
(U.K.) (political reporting from Germany), The
Germanic Review
, Dimensions (theatre criticism),
Backstage, Paedeuma, Art on Paper, The Jewish
Quarterly
(U.K.), Arion, The Literary Review
(U.S.), PN Review (U.K.), Renaissance Quarterly.

Teaching abroad:

At the Sorbonne (Paris III)
University of North London
University of Osnabr
ück (Germany)
University College London (Department of German)