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Seymour Chatman

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

"What Happens When a Novel is Translated into a Film? The Case of Henry James' WASHINGTON SQUARE"
April 15 4:00 pm  118 Brown Hall

"How Should the Heroine of WASHINGTON SQUARE Look on the Screen?"
April 16 1:00 pm  200 Cupples II

Free Film Screenings

Saturday, April 13    100 Brown Hall

12:00  William Wyler's 1949 adaptation THE HEIRESS

2:30  Agnieszka Holland's 1997 WASHINGTON SQUARE

Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies.

Seymour Chatman is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film and Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote "A Theory of Meter" (Amsterdam, 1965), "The Later Style of Henry James" (Oxford, 1972), "Story and Discourse" (Ithaca, 1978), "Antonioni, or the Surface of the World" (Berkeley, 1985), and "Coming to Terms" (Ithaca, 1990). He is the author of numerous articles on narrative structure and the relation of novels to films. He edited (with Samuel R. Levin) "Essays on the Language of Literature" (Boston, 1967), "Literary Style: A Symposium" (New York, 1971), "Approaches to Poetics: Selected English Institute Essays", (New York, 1973), (with Umberto Eco) "Proceedings of the First International Congress on Semiotics" (Milan, 1979), and (with Guido Fink) "Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura: A Screenplay", (New Brunswick, 1989). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Melbourne, Zurich University, and the University of Venice.

Mapping a New Cultural Geography:

Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai as Global Cities

Sixth Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan

May 3-4, 2002

For full program, click here

The conference is sponsored by the Center for International and Area Studies, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, East Asian Studies Program, Comparative Literature, and the Graduate Institute of Cultural Studies and Research Center for Emergent Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

March was very busy, with both the Matheson seminar and the Grad Student Symposium.  Pages have been posted on the web for both events.  Please visit them.

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~complit/math_sem.htm

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~complit/symposium2002.htm

Also, the Fall 2002 course list is online at http://artsci.wustl.edu/~complit/fall2002

Several of Comp Lit's faculty have been honored by the Graduate Student Senate, including two of the four faculty named Outstanding Faculty Mentors for the 2001-2002 academic year.  Congratulations to David Lawton and Paul Michael Lützeler.  Also receiving recognition at the April 5 ceremony were Robert E. Hegel, Lutz Koepnick, Marvin Marcus, Dolores Pesce, James Poag, Lynne Tatlock, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

Robert E. Hegel was involved in two panels at the annual Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington, DC on April 5-6. In one, "Law Becomes Fiction: Narrating Crime and Punishment in the Qing Period," he delivered the paper "Making Convincing Arguments in Legal Cases." He also chaired a second in which papers compared presentations of legal case materials in Chinese and Japanese writings of the 19th and 20th centuries.  This summer Hegel will direct a Mellon Dissertation Seminar in Literature and History, "The Study of Elite and Popular Cultures in Early Modern East Asia." Participants will come from several midwestern universities in addition to Washington University.

Robert Henke is giving two papers in the next month.  The first is entitled: "Dramatizing the Diaspora in Sixteenth-Century Venice" at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 12. And then "Orality and Literacy in the Commedia dell'Arte Testamento," in London for the Italian Society, May 10-11. Also, his book Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte will be coming out from Cambridge University Press in November.

Stamos Metzidakis has been invited to organize the International Colloquium on Nineteenth Century French Studies, scheduled for October 2004.  This premier event in French literature and cultural studies will draw over 200 scholars from around the world to the WU campus.  The general themes will explore the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the legacy of the Colonial French in North America.  Relations between different national literatures, history, philosophy, art and music will also be explored.  For more information, please contact Professor Metzidakis at smetz@artsci.wustl.edu.

Also, Stamos Metzidakis and '00 CL/French PhD Regina Young co-authored an article on Hugo, Shakespeare and the teaching of modern languages that has been accepted for publication in the journal Nineteenth Century French Studies, to appear in volume 31.1.

Henry I. Schvey delivered a paper for the Directing Symposium at the 22nd Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference held in St. Louis, March 7-10, 2002. His paper was entitled, "The Lady From the Sea: A Re-interpretation of Twelfth Night". The paper, based upon his recent production of the play in Edison Theatre for the Performing Arts Department, was part of a panel on "Shakespeare in Production: First Hand Experience". Professor Schvey also chaired a session on "Revisiting Modern Classic Texts" for the Directing Symposium.

Elizabeth Childs (Art History and Archaeology) delivered a conference paper "Gauguin as Author: Writing the Studio of the Tropics" at the international Van Gogh/Gauguin conference at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in March 2002.

Patrizia Bittini wrote the screenplay (along with Vanna Paoli, the director) of a movie that was recently completed in Italy. The title of the movie is "Detective per caso". The international title is "Accidental Detective."  The movie, which was shot in Italy, is in Italian and English with an international cast of Italian, British and American actors including Sergio Bustric (Life is Beautiful), Sarah Miles (Antonioni's Blow-Up) and David Kriegel.

On March 16th, Rebekah Rutledge (PhD CL '01) presented a paper entitled "The Figure of the Veil: Mimesis and Form in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk" at the conference "W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon: Postcolonial Linkages and Transatlantic Receptions." The conference was hosted by the University of Stirling, Scotland.  Dr. Rutledge is in her first year as assistant professor of literature at Miami University.

A NEW JOURNAL ON CAMPUS!
A new WU graduate theatre journal has been established -- Theatron, a name that refers to theatre as both performance space, as well as to the audience itself, according to its etymological roots. It will welcome submissions on all aspects of dramatic literature and performance. The Theatron Committee is comprised of graduate students and Faculty Advisors from various WU departments.  The first issue is expected for the Fall 2002. The publication is sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Committee on Comparative Literature and the Performing Arts Department.  For comments or suggestions, please e-mail: theatron@artsci.wustl.edu

September 12-13, 2002

Brian McHale    

Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of English, West Virginia University

October 23-24, 2002

Linda Hutcheon

Professor of English and Comparative Lit, University of Toronto

Late Winter or Early Spring 2003

Peter Brooks of Yale at the 6th Matheson Seminar.