World Literature

Faculty

Arizumi, Koji. BE (Bachelor of Engineering) in applied physics, Waseda University, Tokyo; MA, Western Illinois University; DMA University of Alabama
Teaching Interests: Japanese language, all levels; Japanese literature since the Meiji era
Research Interests: Japanese music education; flute
World Lit courses: Japanese Literature in Translation, Part II

Fox, Thomas. BA, German, Wesleyan; PhD, German, Yale, 1983
Teaching Interests: German language, literature, and culture; film; Holocaust studies
Research Interests: East German culture; Holocaust studies; women writers
World Lit courses: Holocaust in Film and Literature; Masterpieces of German Film

Godorecci, Maurizio. BA, Comparative Literature, Queens College, CUNY; MA, Italian Literature, Queens College, CUNY; PhD, Italian Literature, New York University, 1990; Books: Tra ottocento e Novecento. Ombre e Corpi di Fedele Romani (San Gabriele: Editoriale Eco, 1993); (ed.) The Empty Set: Five Essays on Twentieth Century Italian Poetry (NY: Queens College P, 1985)
Teaching Interests: Italian language and literature; Dante; Critical Theory; Vico; Italian Civilization
Research Interests: Giambattista Vico; modernism; literature and philosophy; twentieth-century Italian poetry
World Lit courses: Masterpieces of Italian Literature; Dante and His Times; Vico and the Question of Modernity; Poetry and the Novel between the 1800s and the 1900s

Martin, Elaine. BA, French, University of Michigan; MA French, Indiana University; PhD, Comparative Literature (French and German), Indiana University, 1982; Book: (ed.) Gender, Patriarchy, and Fascism in the Third Reich; The Response of Women Writers (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1993)
Teaching Interests: Romanticism(s); Postwar European Literature; Women Writers and Filmmakers; Philosophical Issues and the Representation of Food and Eating
Research Interests: women’s writings about the Nazi Era; 20th century German women writers; food in text and image; gendered utopias/dystopias; war and peace
World Lit courses: World Literature Survey II; Romanticism, The Revolution; Postwar German Literature and Film; German Women Filmmakers; Representations of Food and Eating in Literature and Film; Gender, War and Peace; Gender and Utopia/Dystopia
Website: www.bama.ua.edu/~emartin

Oshida, Catherine. BA, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, MLS, Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma (Thesis: Diimensions of Choice: Japanese Women’s Criteria for Creative Living)
Teaching Interests: Japanese language, all levels; pre-Meiji Japanese literature
Research Interests: Japanese folklore; gender and age issues in Japan
World Lit courses: Japanese Literature in Translation, Part I

Ulmer, William. PhD, British Romantic Literature, University of Virginia; Book: Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love (Princeton UP, 1990)
Research Interests: Wordsworth (In preparation: Wordsworth’s Faith, 1798-1805)
World Lit courses: World Literature Survey, Part I

Winston, Ute. MA/MPhil, Comparative Literature/Medieval, 19th Century, Columbia University
Teaching Interests: Women’s Autobiography, Mothers and Daughters; Survey of English Literature, World Literature Survey, Parts I and II; Values and Society
Research Interests: medieval romance; 19th-century novel; pre-Meiji Japanese literature; German literature: Goethe, Kafka, Brecht, contemporary women’s literature
World Lit courses: World Literature Survey I and II; Major World Authors I and II