Faculty Experts- Comparative Literature
Name: William Davis
Title: Associate Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6815
E-mail: wdavis@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A., Brigham Young University, Ph.D., Stanford University
Came to CC in: 1993
Courses taught at CC: Literary Theory; all levels of German language; literature survey courses; Freedom and Authority
Areas of expertise: Literary Theory; Culture Wars; Romanticism; German Culture; History; Literature; European Literature
Major publications: various articles on literary theory; British and German literatures
Other areas of personal/professional interest: German language, cycling, European travel; have lived several years in Austria and Germany, technology
Name: Regula Meyer Evitt
Title: Associate professor
Office phone (719) 389-6706
E-mail: rmevitt@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, January 1992 M.A., English, Stanford University, 1982 B.A., English, Stanford University, High Honors, 1981
Came to CC in: 1997
Courses taught at CC: Undergraduate Courses Taught: Major Authors . Chaucer: Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Criseyde . Chaucer's Women . Chaucer and Shakespeare . Dante's Commedia . Dante in Exile . Dante and Michelangelo . Marie de France . The Pearl-Poet . Shakespeare . Shakespeare's Women Medieval and Early Modern Periods . Age of Chaucer . Beowulf . The Bible as Literature: The Literary Politics of Genesis . Bodies and Gender in Medieval Literature . Medieval Dream Visions . Medieval Drama . Medieval and Early Modern Drama . Chaucer and Medieval Fabliaux . Medieval Antisemitism . Old English (tutorial) . Readings in Middle English . Renaissance Culture . The Reel Middle Ages (medieval culture through text and film) . Writing Medieval Women (authors and literary representations) Theory/Critical Practice . Critical Practices (introduction to critical theory for English majors) . Introduction to Poetry . Senior Seminar (preparation for senior thesis) Introductory Literature Surveys . Introduction to British Literature . Introduction to Shakespeare . Introduction to Comparative Literature (as a Majors Course; as First Year Experience Seminar) . Freedom and Authority (as First Year Experience Seminar) . Journeys and Journeying: ('Great Works' tutorial) . Renaissance Culture (as First Year Experience Seminar) Writing . College Preparatory Composition . First-Year Composition . Second-Year Composition . Graduate Seminars Taught Major Authors . Chaucer in the Nineties . Medieval Women Authors Medieval Period . The Alliterative Revival . Medieval Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism . Medieval Drama . Medieval Fabliaux . Medieval Texts and Their Readers . Troilus and Criseyde Intertexts Theory/Critical Practice . Post-structural Approaches to Medieval Drama
Areas of expertise: Medieval literature and culture, English and Continental, including: . Medieval Drama, Fabliau, Lai/Romance, Lyric Poetry . Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval Culture . Women in Medieval Literature . 14th/15th century English Literatue . Medieval to Renaissance/Early Modern transition . Shakespeare and the Middle Ages Major Authors: . Marie de France and Gendered authorial strategies . Dante Alighieri and Florence . Geoffrey Chaucer and late Medieval Culture . The Pearl-Poet/Gawain-Poet: The Alliterative Revival . Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and 14th-century Medieval Mysticism . William Shakespeare Critical Theory and Medieval Literatue: . Reader Response Criticism . Semiotics . Gender Theory . Feminist Theory Critical Writing . College Composition Practice . Writing Across the Curriculum Pedagogical applications for the Internet
Major publications: RESEARCH: Publications "'Western Wind': New Historicism," in David Mason, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005) "Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays,", in The Apocalyptic Year 1000, ed. Richard Landes and Andrew Gow (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003)¬ Sound recording: Voice of Daniel, Cleanness, Chaucer Studio sound recording of the medieval alliterative poem Cleanness, Fall 2003 Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997); co-authored with Monica Potkay, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of William and Mary) "Undoing the Dramatic History of the Riga Ludus Prophetarum," Comparative Drama 24 (1990/1991) "Musical Structure in The Second Shepherds' Play," Comparative Drama 22 (1988/89) Book Reviews "Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics, ed. Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler," Review for Comparative Drama, Summer 1998 "Hanna Scolnicov, Women's Theatrical Space," Review for Comparative Drama, Winter 1997/98 "Materializing the Body, Medieval and Modern," Review for San Francisco Review of Books, August-October 1993 Recent Conference Papers Thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003: "Disguising Incest in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's Abraham" Pacific Association of the Modern Language Association, Claremont Colleges, November 1998: "Chaucer, Philomela, and the Metamorphosis of Silence" Journée de Travail des Fabliaux, Columbia University, April 1997: "The Eucharistic Bawdy in English Fabliau" The Apocalyptic Year 1000, Boston University, November 1996: "Vos inquam convenio, O Judaeis": Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays" Thirty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1996: "Bulging Bounds, 'Frely Foode' and the Eucharistic Maternal in the Wakefield Salutation of Elizabeth" Journée de Travail de Marie de France, Columbia University, April 1996: "Writing from the Space of the Displaced"
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Films with medieval focus/subject; Monty Python and medieval culture; Study travel (Dante in Italy; Canterbury Tales in England); Western medieval contexts for contemporary misogynic stereotypes; Writing college application essays; Swiss Culture (dual national, Swiss-American)
Pertinent biographical information: Regula Meyer Evitt is an associate professor of English at Colorado College. A medievalist, she teaches all kinds of literature from the Middle Ages with special interests in drama, Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer. She also enjoys teaching comparative literature courses, Renaissance culture, Shakespeare, and critical theory. Prof. Evitt has written on musical structure in medieval drama, political uses of liturgical drama in the High Middle Ages, and dramatic representations of Jews in western medieval Europe. Her most recent publications include "Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays" in The Apocalyptic Year 1000 and a book on women in medieval culture (co-authored with Monica Potkay, College of William and Mary), Minding the Body-Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500. Prof. Evitt is interested in cultural poetics, collaborative learning, and effective use of internet technology in the classroom.
Name: Corinne Scheiner
(Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Maytag Associate Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6238
E-mail: cscheiner@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. The University of Chicago; M.A. The University of Chicago; B.A. Pomona College
Came to CC: 2000
Courses taught: Introduction to Comparative Literature; Introduction to Literary Theory; Junior-Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature; Nabokov's Butterflies; Postcommunist Politics and Literatures; Practice in Comparison: The Novel as a Genre; Self-Conscious Fiction; and Translation Theory and Practice
Areas of expertise: Translation theory; the phenomenon of literary bilingualism; 20th century French, Russian, and English literatures, in particular the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Samuel Beckett
Major publications:
"Collaboration and Self-Translation." In Oxford's History of Literary Translation in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2009). "In Search of the 'Real Smurov': Doubling and Dialogic Construction of Identity in Nabokov's Sogladatay (The Eye)." In Poetics, Self, Place: Essays in Honor of Lisa Crone. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2007. 601-613. "Teaching Lolita with Lepidoptera." In Approaches to Teaching Lolita, ed. Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008. "Teleiopoiesis, Telepoesis, and the Practice of Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature 57:3 (Summer 2005): 239-245.
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