Sandra Lekas Bermann - UCLA Academic Senate

Sandra L. Bermann
Curriculum Vitae
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Department of Comparative Literature
133 East Pyne
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: (609)258-4265
FAX: (609)258-1873
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Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: (609)924-6149
Professional Career:
1998-: Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
2007-9: President, American Comparative Literature Association
2007: Founder, with Michael Wood, Princeton Program in Translation and Intercultural
Communication
1994: Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
1984-92: Master of Stevenson Hall, Princeton University
1983: Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
1976-83: Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University
Education:
1976: Ph.D. with distinction, Columbia University, Comparative Literature
1974-5: Auditor in linguistics, Paris III, Institut de professeurs de français à l'étranger;
1974-75: Auditor at L'Ecole pratique des hautes études
197l: M.A., Columbia University, Italian
1969-70: Università di Pavia
1969: B.A., Smith College, cum laude, Italian Honors
Fellowships, Awards, Honors:
1969-70: Fulbright Fellow
1970-74: Columbia Presidential Fellow
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1974-75: Whiting Fellow
1980-83: Jonathan Dickinson Preceptor, Princeton University
1983: Princeton Women's Studies Summer Fellowship
2001: Fall term Visitor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
2002: Spring term Fellow, Columbia Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris
2005-07: Vice-President, American Comparative Literature Association
2007-09: President, American Comparative Literature Association
2006-10: Delegate to the ACLS
Languages:
French, Italian (proficient); Spanish, German, Latin (reading knowledge)
Publications
Books:
Manzoni’s ‘On the Historical Novel’, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and
London, 1984. Translation, critical introduction, 134 pp.
Paperback edition,1996.
The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare and
Baudelaire. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1988. 174 pp.
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, co-edited with Michael Wood.
(Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005). 401 pp.
Books in Progress
René Char: Poetry of the War Years Monograph on the poetry of René Char. It focuses
on the collections of the 1940's, when Char was leading a division of the French
Resistance, and joins history to an aesthetic reading of his poems.
The Temporal Imagination
Book-length manuscript, treating issues of historiography and literary theory. It traces
the emergence of a new view of the literary imagination in the twentieth century, one that
relies more on issues of time and memory in the construction of imaginative texts and in
the theories we devise to explain them. Four chapters are in draft form: I. Modernism,
Eliot and the Tradition; II. Barthes, the Annales, and Traumatic Memory. III. Foucault:
Philosophy between Literature and History; V. Between Rorty and his
Heroes:Postmodern Hermeneutics.
Chapters in Books:
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"Giovanni Pascoli" in European Writers: TheRomantic Century. Eds. George Stade and
Jacques Barzun. Charles Scribners, NewYork, 1985. Pp. 1825-54.
"The Sonnet: Repetition with a Difference," in Comparative Poetics (Proceedings of the
10th Congress of the ICLA). Ed. Claudio Guillen, Garland, New York, 1985, pp. 7-11
"Feminist Criticism and Historical Issues," New Visions of Literary Creation: Feminist
Innovations in Literary Theory, ed. Maria Elena de Valdes and Margaret
Higonnet, University of Tokyo Press, 1993, pp. 151-59.
“Some Questions from the Profession,” Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations,
Adrienne Rich. (Norton, 2001), pp.128-37 (conversation from MLA panel)
“La Traduction de l’histoire: la poésie de René Char,” René Char et ses alliés substantiels
(Textes: Association Campredon Arts et Cultures, 2003) pp.79-99.
Introduction” to Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (Princeton University
Press, Princeton: 2005) pp, 1-10.
“Translating History,” Nation., Language, and the Ethics of Translation (Princeton
University Press, Princeton: 2005) pp. 257-73.
Articles:
“Giovanni Faldella's Figurine: One Hundred Years Since," Italica, 51, No. 1 (Spring
1974), pp. 3-19.
"Rhetoric and Consciousness in the Petrarchan Sonnet," Romanic Review, LXXII, No. 2
(March 1981), pp. 215-25.
"Neoplatonism in Politian's Stanze per la Giostra," Forum Italicum 15, No. 1 (Spring
1981), pp. 11-21.
"Manzoni's Essay 'On the Historical Novel': A Rhetorical Question," Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature, X, No. 1 (March 1983), pp. 41-53.
"Revolution in Literary Criticism," Princeton Alumni Weekly, November 1984, pp. 1014.
"Curricular Change and the Study of Comparative Literature,” ACLA
No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1989), pp. 27-41.
Newsletter, XX,
“Feminism and The New History," Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature, No.
39 November 1992, (published 1993), pp. 100-12.
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ACLA Constitution, revision, in ACLA Newsletter, spring 1994.
Danish translation of Introduction to Manzoni's On the Historical Novel by Bo
Nake (discussions underway with University of Nebraska Press).
"Comparative Literature Today," PMLA Millennium Issue, 2000.
“Manzoni’s The Betrothed,” The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana
Marrone-Puglia (New York and London: Routledge and Fitzroy Dearborn) 2007. 10pp.
“Manzoni,” The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies ed. Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
(New York and London: Routledge and Fitzroy Dearborn) 2007. 15 pp.
“Manzoni’s Historical Tragedies,” The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies ed.
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia (New York and London: Routledge and Fitzroy Dearborn),
2007. 10 pp.
Reviews:
Review of Robert M. Durling, Petrarch's Lyric Poems and Anthony Mortimer, Petrarch's
Selected Poems, in Italica, 58, No. 2 (Summer 1981), pp. 117-19.
Review of Marguerite Waller, Petrarch's Poetics and Literary History, in Romanic
Review, LXXIII, No. 3 (May 1982), pp. 385-86.
Review of Annali d'Italianistica: Manzoni, Italica, 65, No. 2 (Summer 1988), pp.154-56.
Review of Dario Calimari, T.S. Eliot: Lo spazio retorico, Style, 25, No. 1 (Spring
1991), pp. 162-5.
Review of Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1928-89
and Philippe Carrard, Poetics of the New History, for Poetics Today, Vol 14, Spring
1993, pp. 219-22.
Review of Cristina Della Coletta, Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical
Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction, for Clio, Winter 1998, Vol. 27, number 2, pp.305-11.
Conference Organizer:
“Comparative Literature in Transnational Times” March 2000. Two day colloquium in
Princeton on major issues in the study of Comparative Literature and the Humanities
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ACLA 2006: “The Human and Its Others:” Annual Conference of the American
Comparative Literature Association, Princeton. Primary organizer, March 23-26, 2006.
Four-day conference and meeting of the ACLA.
Papers Delivered:
"Manzoni's Two Histories," ICLA Meeting, Innsbruck, August, 1979.
"Literary Theory and Undergraduate Teaching," Participant in panel Discussion, ACLA
Meeting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980.
"Manzoni's Essay 'On the Historical Novel': A Rhetorical Question," ACLA Meeting,
C.W. Post College, 1981.
"Structuralism...Poststructuralism: Toward a Rhetoric of Value," SCLA Meeting,
University of the South, February, 1982.
"The Sonnet: Repetition with a Difference," ICLA Meeting, New York University,
August, 1982.
Chair for session at ACLA Meeting, “Romanticism,” University of California at Santa
Barbara, March,
1983.
"The Art of Reading," Princeton Alumni Day, February, 1984.
"Existentialist Philosophy in DeBeauvoir's The Second Sex," Women's Studies Colloquium, Princeton, April, 1984.
"Women and Careers," panelist for Princeton University Women's Organization,
April,1984.
Chair, "Surrealism,” at Symposium on Avant-Garde Art and Literature, Hofstra
University, November 1985.
"Manzoni and the History of the Epic," invited speaker, Classics and Moderns section,
MLA, 1985.
"Academics at Princeton," Sophomore Parents Day, April, 1985 & April, 1986.
"Academic Life at Princeton," New Jersey applicants, October 1988.
"Comparative Literature and Curricular Reform,” paper and chair of session at
ACLA conference, March, 1989.
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"Barthes & History," ACLA Conference, Penn State University, March, 1990.
"The Return of History," Princeton's Washington, D.C. Alumni & Parents Meeting,
March, 1990.
"History and Literature," for Highland Lakes, New Jersey High School Teachers of
English Conference, May 1990.
"Feminism and the New History," ICLA conference, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1991.
“Feminism and New Historicism,” Peking University September,1991.
Panelist, "Meeting the Needs of International Students: The Graduate A-I," September,
1991
"Barthes, the Annales and the Body of Michelet," ACLA conference, Columbia
University, April 1991.
"Microhistory and Cross-Cultural Montage," ACLA Conference, University of Indiana,
March 1993.
"Juxtaposing Particulars: the Pragmatics of Microhistory," Conference on Pragmatism,
University of Tulsa, March 1993.
"Teaching Inter-disciplinary Courses," panelist for Alumni Council, Princeton University, October 2, 1993.
“Epistemology and Narrative History,” Respondent to F. R. Ankersmit, Davis Center
Princeton, February 1994.
"Foucault and Science," ACLA Conference, University of Georgia, March 1994.
"René Char and the Ambivalence of Generation," MLA, invited speaker, Lyric Poetry
section, December 1995.
Chair of Session, "New Poetics of Europe," MLA, December 1997.
Chair of Session, "Twentieth Century Poetry and the Refashioning of the Past,"MLA,
December, 1998
"Conversations with Poets: Adrienne Rich," interview with the poet, MLA, December
1998
"Comparative Literature: Questions of Citizenship," ACLA, Montreal, April 1999
Chair of Session, "Poetry: What is Gained in Translation," MLA, December 1999
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Chair and Panelist, "Conversations with Poets: Robert Creeley," MLA, December
1999.
Chair and Panelist, “Comparative Literature in Transnational Times: The Issue of
Europe,” Princeton Colloquium, Comparative Literature at the Millennium, March 2000
Panelist, Princeton New Faculty Orientation, Fall 2000
Panelist, “The Graduate Teaching Seminar,” McGraw Center Dedication, Princeton
“History and Literature: The Poetry of René Char,” Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall,
Paris. February 2002.
Introduction, Michael Wood, Behrman Humanities Dinner, Princeton, May 2002
Chair of three-day seminar and Panelist, “Translationality” ACLA, University of
Michigan, March 2004.
Chair, “Poetry and Interdisciplinarity,” MLA, December 2004.
“Mourning, Poetry, Justice: The Poetry of René Char,” invited speaker, Law and the
Humanities Conference, San Diego, January 2005
“Translation and the Law” invited speaker, American Association of Law Schools,
AALS, Washington D.C., January 2006.
“Comparative Literature and Translation: Projects for the Future,” MLA, Philadelphia,
December 2006.
“René Char and Georges Braques: Between past and future,” ACLA, Puebla, Mexico,
April 2007
“Adrienne Rich: Translator and Poet,” ICLA, Rio de Janeiro, August 2007
“Translation and Revision,” Invited speaker, Wesleyan Center for the Humanities,
September 2007
Teaching (course details upon request):
Literary Theory
Historiography and Literary Theory
Poetry and Poetics
Translation: Theory and Practice
Literature and Law
Introduction to Comparative Literature
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Contributions to the Department:
Chair, Comparative Literature, 1998Founder with Michael Wood of Princeton Program in Translation and Intercultural
Communication (undergraduate certificate program and faculty seminars to begin Fall
2008)
Director of Graduate Studies (1993-95).
Chair, Faculty Committee on Graduate
Studies (1993-95).
Committee on Graduate Studies (1984-1991; 93-95; 97-98).
Search Committees (1986-88,1991-92,1999-2001).
Director of Undergraduate Studies (1978-82 and 1983-84).
Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Studies (1978-82 and 1983-84).
Departmental Comprehensives Exam Committee (by rotation)
Contributions to the University:
Master of Stevenson Hall (1984-92).
Council of Masters (1984-92).
University Study Committee on the Women's Center (1985-86).
University Committee on Undergraduate Life (1986-88).
University Advisory Committee for the Women's Center (1987-1989)
Campus Representative for Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities (1983-95)
University Search Committee for Dean of the Chapel (1987-88).
University Committee on Women's Studies (1984-90).
University Committee on Campus Center (1987-88).
Faculty Trustee, Prospect Foundation (Special Academics Committee, 1984 to 1990).
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Special Committee to review Admissions Procedure for Women at
Princeton (December - January 1986-87).
Fellow of Butler College (1983-84).
Fellow of Stevenson Hall (1992-4)
Sophomore Advising (1982-84).
University Committee on Examinations and Standing (1983-84).
University Marshall (1984 to date).
Committee for the Princeton Writing Program (1991 -2001).
University Committee in Italian Studies (1990-92).
Committee on Policy for the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School (1994-95)
Committee on the 250th Anniversary for Princeton University (1995-97)
Faculty Committee on the 250th Anniversary Colloquium on Athletics (1995-97)
Executive Committee, Council of the Humanities (1998-2001)
Committee on the Implementation of the Wythes Report (2000-2001)
Committee on the Sixth Residential College (2000-2001)
Committee on Governance (2000-2001)
Committee on European Cultural Studies (1993 to date).
Committee on Contemporary European Politics and Society (2002-07)
Committee on Committees (2001-2005)
Committee on Appointments and Advancements (2002-2003; 2005-06)
Executive Committee, Center for Human Values (2001-2003, 2004-07)
Committee on Undergraduate International Studies (with Nancy Kanach: 2002-2005)
Advisory Committee for the McGraw Center (2003-4)
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Advisory Committee for the Princeton Writing Program (2003-07)
Target of Opportunity Committee (2004-05)
Advisory Committee for the Program in Theater and Dance (2003-07)
Mellon Minorities Mentor (2002-03; 2003-04; 2004-05)
President’s Task Force on the Creative and Performing Arts (2005-06)
Professional Activities outside the University
Adviser:
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, for the creation of a Department of English and
Comparative Literature. The program has now been passed by the Trustees of
Koç University and by the Turkish government and will begin fall 07. Visits to
Koç in May, 2006, and June, 2007.
Evaluator:
Ford Foundation grant to Bryn Mawr College, for interdisciplinary and intercollegial faculty research and curricular projects (84-85)
ACLA:
Advisory Board (1989-92)
Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum (1984-90)
Chair, Undergraduate Committee (1987-90)
Head of survey and analysis of Comparative Literature, undergraduate programs
inU.S. and Canada (1987-90)
Chair, Committee on the Constitution (1991-93)
Organizer of Annual Conference 2006: “The Human and Its Others,” Princeton
Charles Bernheimer Prize Committee (2006-08)
ICLA, member (1977 to date).
MLA, member (1976 to date).
Executive Council, Poetry Division (1995-99)
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Executive Council, Poetry Division Chair (1998-99)
Delegate Assembly (2003-5)
Program Committee for Annual Convention (2007-09)
Referee, Presidents Fellows, New York University, 1990-91.
Referee, Howard Fellowships (Brown University), spring, 1991.
Referee, Promotion UCLA, 2002
Referee, Promotion UCLA, 2000
Referee, Promotion UCLA 2005
Referee, Promotion , City University Graduate Center, 2003
Referee, senior appointment, Harvard 2006
Referee, senior appointment, Yale 2006
Referee, senior appointment, Columbia 2007
Representative to Smith College Inauguration of President Carol Christ (fall 2002)
International Committee for the Museum René Char, L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France
Outside Academic Review Committee for the School of the Humanities, UC Irvine,
March 2004.
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