Comparative Literature
Contact
Department Chair:
Jed Deppman - Chair

Administrative Assistant:
Brenda Snell

Department Email:


Phone: (440) 775-8345

Location:
King Building 141
10 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Research

Research

Selected Recent Publications:

Deppman, Jed

Monograph / Edited Volumes

Emily Dickinson and Philosophy. Coedited with Marianne Noble and Gary Lee Stonum.    Cambridge University Press. In press. Release date March 2013.

Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Poetics. Coedited with Joy Ladin. Special issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal, 2008.

Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson. University of Massachusetts Press. 288 pp. 2008. Second paperback printing, 2010.                  

Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes. Translator. Coeditor with Michael Groden and Daniel Ferrer. University of Pennsylvania Press. 258pp. 2004.

 

Refereed Articles / Book Chapters

“Astonished Thinking: Dickinson and Heidegger.” Emily  Dickinson and Philosophy. Jed   Deppman, Marianne Noble, and Gary Lee Stonum, eds. Cambridge University Press. In press.

 “James Joyce: From Hero to Author of the Bildungsroman.” The James Joyce Quarterly. Volume 49. Forthcoming.

“‘Say some philosopher’: Emily Dickinson as Thinker.” Emily Dickinson in Context. Ed. Eliza Richards. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming.

“Joyce – Event – Derrida – Event – Joyce.” Joyce and Derrida. Andrew Mitchell and Sam Slote, eds. SUNY. In press. 2012.

“Jean Anouilh’s Antigone.” A Companion to Sophocles. Kirk Ormand, ed. London: Blackwell. 523-537. 2012.

“Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson.Critical Insights. J. Brooks Bouson, ed. Pasadena CA: Salem Press. 166-91. 2011.

 “The Problem of Genesis.” Hypermedia Joyce. David Vichnar and Louis Armand, eds. Prague, Czech Republic: Litteraria Pragensia Books. 141-162. 2010.

“James Joyce Composing a Chapter: Finnegans Wake 2.4.” How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A             Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Luca Crispi and Sam Slote, eds. University of Wisconsin Press. 304-346. 2007.

“Semantica fantástica: Man Facing Southeast and Borges’s El sur.” The Cinematic Art of Eliseo Subiela. Nancy Membrez, ed. Edwin Mellen Press. 119-126. 2007.

“The Problem of Genesis in the Texts of Joyce.” Hypermedia Joyce Studies. (8:2) np. 2007.

"Joyce and the Case for Genetic Criticism." Genetic Joyce Studies-Issue 6 (Spring 2006).n.p.

“History in the Poetry of próspero saíz: A Reading of ‘document.’”  MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. 30: 1 (2005): 205-233. 2005.

 “Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. 14: 1 (2005): 84-103. 2005.

“Genetic Criticism.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Revised Edition. With Daniel Ferrer and Michael Groden. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre   Szeman, eds. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 427-30. 2004.

“Re-Presenting Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste.” Symploké. 11: 1-2. 197-211. 2003.

“The Return of Medievalism: James Joyce in 1923.” European Joyce Studies. 13: 1. 39-71. 2002.

“‘I Could Not Have Defined the Change’: Rereading the Definition Poems.” The Emily Dickinson            Journal. 11: 1. 49-80. 2002.

“Dickinson, Death, and the Sublime.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. 9: 1. 1-20. 2000.

“Joyce, Vico, and the Lord’s Prayer.” European Joyce Studies. 9: 1. 65-82. 1999.

“Jean-Luc Nancy, Myth, and Literature.” Qui Parle. 10: 2. 11-32. 1997.

“History with Style: The Impassible Writing of Flaubert.” Style. 30: 1. 28-49. 1996.

 

Interview

 “Trying to Think with Jed Deppman.” The Emily Dickinson Bulletin. Fall, 2012.