Thomas
O. Beebee,
Editor
Associate Editors:
Michael Bérubé, Caroline
D. Eckhardt, Thomas A. Hale, Djelal
Kadir, Sophia A. McClennen, Philip Mosley, Michael M. Naydan,
Reiko Tachibana
ISSN 0010-4132: Quarterly Publication
Comparative
Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in
literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural
and literary relations within and beyond the Western
tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics,
scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays
range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe,
and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two
years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations
and is edited in conjunction with members of the College
of International Relations at Nihon University. Each
issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent
comparatists. More information is available at http://www.cl-studies.org.
About
the Editor:
Thomas O. Beebee was born in Santa Monica, California, in
1955. Seeing that the future was blackouts, he fled as far east
as possible, and received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and
both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught
German at Bowdoin College from 1984 to 1986, when he joined the
faculty at Penn State. He became Associate Professor in 1991,
and Professor of Comparative Literature & German in 2000. His
fields of specialization in research and graduate teaching are:
European literature of the early modern period; criticism and
theory; epistolarity; translation studies; and law and literature.
His publications include the books Clarissa on the Continent,
The Ideology of Genre, and Epistolary Fiction in
Europe, and articles such as "Orientalism, Absence and
the Poñme en Prose," "Bob Dylan: Balladeer of The Apocalypse,"
and "Letters of the Law: Rhetoric and Fiction in The Artes
Dictaminis." Other publications include articles on Kafka,
Brecht, da Cunha, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Amos Oz, Christa Wolf, and
letter fiction of the early modern period. In addition, he has
just completed a book , True Imaginary Places: Landscapes of
Nation in Modern European and American Fiction, and tomes
on New World Apocalypse and on law and German literature are under
way.
Book
Review Editor:
Adrian
J. Wanner
311 Burrowes Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
