Marilyn Reizbaum

Professor of English

Fall 2008

  • The Irish Story (ENG 247)
  • The Joyce Revolution (ENG 323)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 401)
Phone (207) 725-3364
Title Professor
Department ENGLISH
Work Location 106 Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail mreizbau@bowdoin.edu
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Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.Litt. , English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Current Research:

image of the jew"Max Nordau and the Generation of Jewish Muscle," in Jewish Culture and History 6.1 (Summer 2003): Special Issue "The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914." This essay represents one section of the current book project—"The Inversion of the Jews: Degeneration Theory and Modern Arts"

Teaching areas:

Modernism, Irish and Scottish literatures and film; James Joyce; Modern Drama and Performance Studies; Poetry, Modern British; Jewish literatures.

Research interests:

joyce judaic otherContemporary Scottish and Irish literatures and film; Modernism, Cultural Theory and History of Ideas; Jewish  poetics. Has written on Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Eavan Boland, Neil Jordan, Liz Lochhead, Irvine Welsh, Art Spiegelman, Emma Goldman, Otto Weininger.

Recent Publications

"Yiddish Modernisms: Red Emma Goldman," Modern Fiction Studies 51.2 (2005) 482-483

ireland-scotland "Gender and Nationalism in Scotland and Ireland: Making and Breaking the Waves," in Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society, 1700-2000, eds. Ray Ryan and Liam McIlvanney (Four Courts Press) 2005

James Joyce's Judaic Other
Stanford University Press

Ulysses—En-Gendered Perspectives Eighteen New Essays on the Episodes
Edited by Kimberly J. Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum
The University of South Carolina Press

joyce poster
Poster for 1979 International James Joyce
Symposium in Zurich.
Poster design by Harold Garde.
frontispiece for James Joyce's Judaic Other
         ulysses poster


Photograph of Marilyn Reizbaum by Michal Heiman