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INGER S. B. BRODEY
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago (1993), M.A. University of Chicago (1991), B.A. Colorado College (1987)

Dr. Brodey was born in Kyoto, Japan, and studied at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg, Germany, as well as at Waseda University in Tokyo, before receiving her Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. With a background in comparative literature and political philosophy, Dr. Brodey is a committed comparatist, both in terms of the cross-cultural comparison of literatures and in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature. Her primary interest is in the history of the novel in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe and Meiji Japan. She works in German, Japanese, French, and Italian, as well as English and her native Danish. 

Her courses in Comparative Literature include: From Enlightenment to Romanticism; Global Jane Austen; Literary Landscapes; Approaches to Comparative Literature; Cross-Currents in East-West Literature; Cowboys, Samurai, Rebels in Film and Fiction; Almost Despicable Heroines; The Feast in Film, Philosophy, and Fiction; Asian Food Rituals; and Narrative Silence. Several of these courses are cross-listed with Asian studies.

Dr. Brodey's recent book Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility (Routledge, 2008) draws on fictional narratives, landscape architecture, discussions of ‘natural’ language, guides to rhetoric, philosophical writings, and other aspects of the culture of sensibility in England, France, and Germany, to offer a new synthesis of its literary and material culture: Ruined by Design reveals a widespread discomfort with authorship and authority in general, which led to innovative new structures in the fledging novel, as well as in landscape gardens and their architecture. 

Her Rediscovering Natsume Sôseki (Global Press, 2000) includes the first English translation of Sôseki's Mankan Tokoro Dokoro (Travels through Manchuria and Korea), co-translated from Japanese with Sammy Tsunematsu. Other publications include articles and book essays on Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and Natsume Sôseki. Her current research is on connections between Meiji Japan and post-Enlightenment Europe, particularly involving changes in the understanding of the novel as a genre and the connection between Natsume Sôseki and Jane Austen.  She also is working on a book-length manuscript entitled Cowboys and Samurai: Authority, Nation-Making, and Individualism.

Dr. Brodey's awards include a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1988-1993), a Jacob M. Javitz Fellowship, a Fulbright-DAAD Fellowship (1987-88), and Earhart Fellowships (1993, 1997).  At UNC, she has won a Spray-Randleigh Faculty Fellowship, a Brandes Honors Curriculum Development Award, and, in 2006, a Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

She serves as Director of the Undergraduate Studies for Comparative Literature, and as faculty advisor for CLOUD, the Comparative Literature International Film Series, and the Cult Lit Classics Series.

Contact: brodey@email.unc.edu

E. JANE BURNS
Professor of the Curriculum in Womens Studies
Ph.D., French Literature and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Jane Burns' work centers on issues of gender and material culture in medieval texts. Most recently, she has published a feminist study of courtly love and clothing in thirteenth-century French culture (Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) and has edited a collection of essays called Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork and other Cultural Imaginings (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2004). She is currently serving as a subject editor for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, forthcoming) and working on a book entitled "Saracen Silk: Gendered Identities and the Traffic in Cloth in Medieval French Culture." Jane Burns teaches courses on feminist and gender theory, women's spirituality and courtship and courtliness. Professor Burns teaches FREN (WMST) 225, French Feminist Theory and WMST 299, the graduate seminar in Women's Studies.
Contact: ejburns@email.unc.edu

DINO CERVIGNI
Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature

Dino Cervigni was educated in Italy and the United States. He taught for fifteen years at the University of Notre Dame before coming to UNC in 1989. His main interests focus on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He teaches courses on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, lyric poetry, epic, and autobiography. He has written on autobiography (The "Vita" of Benvenuto Cellini: Literary Tradition and Genre. Ravenna: Longo, 1979) and on Dante (Dante's Poetry of Dreams. Firenze: Olschki, 1986; Vita nuova with Facing English Translation. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995). He is currently completing a 3-volume project on Dante: a new bilingual edition, a textual concordance, and a commentary of the Vita nuova. As founder and editor of the annual monograph Annali d'italianistica (http://www.ibiblio.org/annali), he has thus far edited 21 volumes that range from the epic (1983; 1994), Dante and modern American criticism (1990), and Guicciardini (1984) to the autobiography (1986), women's voices in Italian literature (1989), Manzoni (1985), D'Annunzio (1987), narrative beginnings and endings (2000), the modern and postmodern (1991), Italian women mystics (1994), and exile (2002). An NEH fellowship recipient, he has been the president of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) for two terms. In 2004 he organized an international symposium to celebrate Francis Petrarch's seventh centenary of his birth. The best essays presented at the symposium have appeared in the 2004 issue of Annali d'italianistica. Professor Cervigni has taught both CMPL 195 and CMPL 191 for Comparative Literature
Contact: dino_cervigni@unc.edu

MARSHA S. COLLINS
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
A.B. in Comparative Literature from Smith College, an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Spanish from Princeton University

Marsha Collins has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1988 and has served as Director of the Program of Comparative Literature. Particular areas of interest in research and teaching include the Baroque, pastoral and romance, 16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose, as well as women writers, early 20th-century fiction, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. She has published on Gngora, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Baroja, and Galds, among others.
Contact: marcol@email.unc.edu

ERIC S. DOWNING Professor of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1987), M.A. UC-Berkeley (1980), B.A. Swarthmore (1977)

Eric Downing studied Comparative Literature at Swarthmore College (BA) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD). His primary literatures are German, classical Greek, and Latin. Before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, he was John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he taught courses in both Comparative and German Literature. His courses in Comparative Literature include classes in literary theory, the history of poetics, eighteenth and nineteenth-century fiction, aestheticism, and several on ancient-modern relations. His teaching in German has concentrated on narrative fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, but includes courses on Nietzsche, Freud, and Walter Benjamin. He also holds an adjunct position in the Department of Classical Studies. In 2004 he was presented with the Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is currently Director of the Program of Comparative Literature.

Eric Downing's research has included articles on classical literary theory, Greek drama, Roman elegy, and ancient-modern relations, as well as studies devoted to nineteenth-century literary realism and twentieth-century modernism. His books are Artificial I's: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann (Niemeyer, 1993), Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism (Stanford University Press, 2000), and After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis (Wayne State University Press, 2006). He is also co-editor, with Clayton Koelb, of The Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 9: The Nineteenth Century 1830 - 1899 (Camden House, 2005) and, with Christopher Wild, of two special issues of The Germanic Review, Evidence and the Insistence of the Visual (2001) and Critical Constellations: Walter Benjamin (forthcoming, 2005).
Contact: edowning@email.unc.edu

LILIAN R. FURST
Emeritus Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D. Cambridge University (1957), B.A. University of Manchester (1952)

Dr. Furst was born in Vienna and educated in England, France, and Switzerland, taking her Ph.D. at Cambridge. In the United States since 1971, she has taught at various institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, and the College of William and Mary before joining the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1986.

Her books include Romanticism in Perspective (London: Macmillan, 1969), Romanticism (London: Methuen, 1969), Naturalism (London: Methuen, 1971), Fictions of Romantic Irony (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), Through the Lens of the Reader (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992), All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), Between Doctor and Patient: The Changing Balance of Power (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998), Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), Medical Progress and Social Reality (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001), and a dual voice autobiography, Home Is Somewhere Else (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).

Dr. Furst has held Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, and National Humanities Center Fellowships. Her courses on romanticism, realism, naturalism, and irony focus on English, French, German, and some American and Italian literature from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. She also offers the problems and methods course. Her current research interests are in the field of literature and medicine, and post-Holocaust writing. September 29, 2002 Dr. Furst gave the Fifth Annual E.M. Adams Lecture for the program in the Humanities and Human Values.

DAVID J. HALPERIN

David Halperin received his B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University, in Semitic languages. He did his graduate work in Near Eastern studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and in rabbinics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1977. From 1976 through 2000, he taught the history of Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received repeated awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

He has published numerous scholarly articles and four books: The Merkabah in Rabbinic Literature (1980), The Faces of the Chariot: Early Jewish Responses to Ezekiel's Vision (1988), Seeking Ezekiel: Text and Psychology (1993), and Abraham Miguel Cardozo: Selected Writings (2001). Most recently he has written a novel, Mirage, which weaves Jewish and biblical themes together with themes of the modern supernatural. He is currently working on a second novel, The October Man, about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

WILLIAM R. HARMON

William Harmon, who has degrees from the University of Chicago, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the University of Cincinnati, is the James Gordon Hanes Professor in the Humanities. Since coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1970 he has taught more than thirty different undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, composition, and creative writing. His specialties have been modern literature in particular and poetry in general. He has published five books of original poetry, including winners of the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets (Treasury Holiday, 1970) and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America (Mutatis Mutandis, 1985). He is the editor of The Oxford Book of American Light Verse and a number of anthologies, CD ROMs, and online projects sponsored by Columbia University Press, including The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, and Classic Writings on Poetry. Since 1984 he has been the editor of A Handbook to Literature (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th editions; 11th forthcoming). He has published scholarly articles in many journals, including PMLA and The American Anthropologist; as well as poems, notes, essays, and reviews. In 1977 he was given a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship for study in literature and social science. In 1999 he received the Robert B. Heilman Award given by The Sewanee Review for excellence in book-reviewing. In 2004-06 he was the vice-president of the T. S. Eliot Society and editor of the society's Newsletter; in 2007 he began a three-year term as president of the Society. He is also a member of the Board of Literary Management of the Estate of the Late Laura (Riding) Jackson. He has been gathering materials for a book about the relations between the English writer Charles Montagu Doughty and the American writers Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson. He and his wife, Dr. Anne Harmon (a researcher in Public Health), are Wilson Library Fellows and members of the Chancellor's Club.
Contact: wharmon03@mindspring.com

EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Dr. Kennedy came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1967 after receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and shortly thereafter he began teaching in Comparative Literature. Teaching interests include Arthurian romance, medieval narrative, Early Middle English, late medieval English and Scottish literature, Chaucer, Malory and medieval drama. Besides editing two collections of essays, one on King Arthur (1996; paperback 2002), he has written Chronicles and Other Historical Writing as volume 8 of A Manual of the Writings in Middle English (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989). He has published many articles and reviews, particularly on medieval romance and chronicles, and he has been especially interested in the influence of medieval French prose romance on writers such as Malory, Chaucer, and Gower and in the interplay between romance and chronicle. He is currently working on an edition of short Scottish chronicles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has been an ACLS Fellow, has worked in England under grants from ACLS and the American Philosophical Society, is on the editorial boards of the journals Arthuriana and The Medieval Chronicle and of the series Medieval Chronicles and is editor of Studies in Philology and an associate editor of The Comparatist. He is on the advisory boards of the Southern Comparative Literature Association and the International Medieval Chronicles conference and has been named subject editor for English and Scottish chronicles for the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Professor Kennedy is a former Chair and Director of Graduate Studies for the program. He teaches CMPL 153.
Contact: ekennedy@email.unc.edu

CLAYTON KOELB
Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature

After completing graduate studies in Comparative Literature at the Freie Universitat, Berlin, and at Harvard, Professor Koelb joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1969, where he taught until moving to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1991 as Guy B. Johnson Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He teaches and writes primarily about modern European literature, literary theory, and the history of criticism, with a special interest in leading figures of early twentieth-century German literature such as Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann. He has published a number of books in these areas, including several specifically addressed to comparatists. At the moment he is completing a book on the "sense of history" in the modern novel. Also in the works is a project on the impact of late-eighteenth-century aesthetics on romantic fiction. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and is currently president of the Kafka Society of America. Professor Koelb teaches CMPL 150, CMPL 241, and CMPL 242.
Contact: ckoelb@email.unc.edu

ALICE KUZNIAR
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A. and Ph.D., Princeton University

Her book Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Holderlin (University of Georgia Press, 1987) won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award. She has written articles on Kant, Herder, Goethe, the Jena Romantics, C.D. Friedrich, and E.T.A. Hoffmann and teaches graduate courses in the area of German Romanticism. She has edited Outing Goethe and His Age (Stanford University Press, 1996), which reflects her interest in gender studies. In addition, she has authored several articles on contemporary German and American film, on occasion from a Lacanian perspective, as well as on Austrian writers from Musil to Handke. The Queer German Cinema was published in 2000. Her most recent book, Melancholia's Dog, was published in 2006 (University of Chicago Press). She has taught graduate courses on literary theory, postmodernism, women in German cinema, the new queer cinema, twentieth-century Austrian literature, the fantastic, and psychoanalysis and literature. Professor Kuzniar teaches GERM 245, Freud Through Lacan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film.
Contact: akuzniar@email.unc.edu

DIANE R. LEONARD
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill

Diane Leonard's areas of specialization are modern narrative, literary theory, women writers, and literature and the visual arts. For some years she has been engaged in a research project on Marcel Prousts re-inscription of texts by John Ruskin in A la recherche du temps perdu, for which she has worked extensively with the Proust manuscripts at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Her articles on various aspects of modernist narrative have appeared in books and journals both here and abroad, and she has completed a volume of translations of Prousts writings on Ruskin. A member of the equipe Proust at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) in Paris, she has been an invited speaker at various colloquia in France and the US. During research leaves in Paris, she has attended year-long seminars given by Gerard Genette, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Milan Kundera. For several years she served as member of an international team of scholars that compiled the Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Editions Honore Champion, 2004), an 1100-page reference work that was awarded a prize by the Academie Francaise. Recently she was asked to transcribe and co-edit one of Prousts manuscript notebooks for A la recherche du temps perdu, to be brought out by the Belgian publishing house, Brepols, as part of a series of 150 volumes produced under the auspices of the Bibliotheque Nationale and ITEM.

A recipient of both NEH and Pogue Fellowships, she has been awarded grants from the ACLS, the University Research Council and UNC's Arts and Humanities Institute. At Chapel Hill, she teaches graduate courses on modern narrative, literary theory, modern drama, modernism, women writers, the fourth dimension, and literature and the arts. She is a former Chair and Director of Graduate Studies for the program, and has served as editor of UNC Studies in Comparative Literature.
Contact: sesame@email.unc.edu

MADELINE G. LEVINE
Kenan Professor of Slavic Languages (Ph.D., Harvard University 1971)

Professor Levine teaches mainly about Russian literature and writes about things Polish. Her publications, including criticism and literary translations, are focused predominantly on twentieth-century Polish literature. Her critical writings include the book Contemporary Polish Poetry: 1925-1975 (1981) and scattered articles and essays, published here and in Poland, centering on the literary representation of the Holocaust and of Polish-Jewish relations.

Since 1990, she has been Czeslaw Milosz's prose translator, and has published three volumes of his writings -- Beginning with My Streets (1992), A Year of the Hunter (1994), and Milosz's ABC's (2000); a fourth volume, with the working title "Legends of Modernity," is in progress. Also, she has co-edited with Bogdana Carpenter of the University of Michigan To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays of Czeslaw Milosz (forthcoming October 2001 from Farrar Straus & Giroux). Other recent book-length publications include translations of Bogdan Wojdowski's Bread for the Departed (1997) and Agata Tuszynska's Landscapes of Memory: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jews of Poland (1998). Professor Levines translation (with Francine Prose) of Ida Fink's A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1987; 2d ed. 1995) was awarded the 1988 PEN-America Club prize for literary translation.

Professor Levine regularly teaches a course cross-listed in Comparative Literature CMPL 160, Reading Other Cultures: Issues in Literary Translation.
Contact: mgl@unc.edu

JOHN McGOWAN
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
A.B., Georgetown University; M.A. and Ph.D., SUNY/Buffalo

John McGowan taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Rochester before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1992 as a Professor of English, and he joined the Comparative Literature faculty in 1995. He has published books on nineteenth-century English realism and on postmodern literary and cultural theory and on Hannah Arendt, as well as articles on Jane Austen, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Judith Butler, Christopher Lasch, Charles Dickens, William James, Hannah Arendt, and issues in contemporary literary theory. His current work includes co-editing the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, a book of essays on the status and work of intellectuals Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell University Press, 2002), and a book on the contribution American pragmatism can make to debates in post-foundational social theory. As Associate Director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, he is actively engaged in fostering opportunities for interdisciplinary work at UNC-Chapel Hill. He regularly teaches introductory courses for graduate students in contemporary literary theory and in literary criticism prior to 1950, along with seminars in more specialized topics like pragmatism, narrative theory, or cultural studies. Professor McGowan teaches CMPL 150 and CMPL 242.
Contact: jpm@email.unc.edu

JAMES L. PEACOCK
Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature
B.A. in psychology, Duke; Ph.D. in anthropology, Harvard

Dr Peacock has taught at Yale, University of California at San Diego, and Princeton and is currently Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill where he has served both as Chair of Anthropology and Chair of the Faculty. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past-President of the American Anthropological Association. Professor Peacock's research interests include Indonesia, Southeast Asian Islam, and symbols, religion, psychology and culture in local settings; one book treats theatre. He has published in all of these interest areas. Professor Peacock teaches CMPL 135.
Contact: peacock@unc.edu

JOSE MANUEL POLO de BERNABE
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill and subdirector of the Spanish summer program at the Middlebury College in Vermont

Professor Polo was born in Madrid and studied in France as well as Spain, where he pursued a degree in law and in literature. He then moved to the United States and obtained his PhD in Hispanic literature and critical theory from Cornell University. There he took seminars with theorists such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Julia Kristeva. His research and teaching interests cover a variety of fields in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, particularly in drama and poetry, as well as critical theory and film studies. He has published a book on poetry and consciousness in the works of Jorge Gullen and essays on the theory and practice of the Spanish avantgarde and on poetry, drama, and narrative. At UNC-Chapel Hill and Middlebury he has developed courses on literary theory, nineteenth- and twentieth-century drama and poetry, film theory and Spanish and Latin American film. At present he is working on three projects: 1) Myth, the project of modernity, and the origin of postmodernity in Spanish literature of the 20's and 30's (with consideration of the history of ideas, painting, and film); 2) the theory of modern autobiographic writing; and 3) modern literary theory applied to Hispanic texts. Professor Polo de Bernabe teaches CMPL 202.
Contact: jpolo@email.unc.edu

ALICE RIVERO Associate Professor of Spanish American and Comparative Literatures
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University; MA and PhD from Brown University

Alice Rivero's first book, Autor/lector: Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes y Sarduy (Wayne State UP, 1991), combines reader-response with authorship theory and criticism. It analyzes the roles that readers and writers play in the writing and decoding of texts from classical antiquity to the 20th Century, using examples taken primarily (but not exclusively) from the works of Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes and Sarduy. She edited Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy (Cuban Literary Studies Series, Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, U of Colorado, 1998), which offers theoretical and critical analyses of Sarduy's texts. It deals with such topics as identity, self-portraiture, gender, queer theory, AIDS, psychoanalytic aspects of eroticism, canonical subversion, postmodernity, the neobaroque, culture, religion, myth, reality, pictorial representation, and cosmology. She also edited an invited, special issue on "Literatura y Ciencia" of La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 3.9 (1998), which is devoted to the interrelations of literature and science in 19th-20th century Spanish American and Spanish texts. Her other publications include articles on the works of Borges, Sarduy, Fuentes, Huidobro, Arreola, Castellanos, Campos, Elizondo, Futoransky, Mallarme, and Gomez de la Serna from the perspective of comparative literature, mythography, science and other cultural studies, literary theory, history of ideas, gender issues, new historicism, etc. She has two books-in-progress and will complete Nature in Modern Latin(a) American Literature: Ecology, Gender, and Race first. She teaches a variety of courses, which are described in her Romance Languages web page.
Contact: arivero@unc.edu

JESSICA WOLFE
Associate Professor of English

Dr. Jessica Wolfe is the author of Humanism, Machinery and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She is currently at work on a second book titled Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance. Portions of this second book have appeared in article form in Renaissance Papers; a second installment, on Spenser, is due out in article form in the spring 2006 volume of Renaissance Quarterly. Dr. Wolfe has also written an article on th sixteenth-century French poet and scholar Jean de Sponde, forthcoming in the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on sixteenth century French writers due out later this year. She has plans for future work on Renaissance theories of comedy;, on classical sophistry and its heritage, and on the neo-Latin scholar and editor Julius Ceasar Scaliger.

In 2002, Professor Wolfe was awarded the William H. Friday award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Dr. Wolfe was selected one of three "superlative" undergraduate teachers at Carolina by the senior class of 2001. Professor Wolfe recently taught CMPL 172, Literature of the Continental Renaissance for the Curriculum of Comparative Literature.
Contact: jlwolfe@email.unc.edu