Marilyn Reizbaum

Harrison King McCann Professor of English

Spring 2013

  • Modern Drama and Performance (ENG 246)
  • Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (ENG 282)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 402)
Phone 2077253364
Title Harrison King McCann Professor of English
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:

Contemporary 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

The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark, Edited By: Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley, Edinburgh University Press, 2010 Urban Legends, Earrach/Samhradh Éire-Ireland - Volume 45:1&2,  Spring/Summer 2010, pp. 242-265

The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark, Edited By: Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley, Edinburgh University Press, 2010

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

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