Coordinates of Comparison:
Text, Readers, & Theories



Comparative Literature Conference

29-31 August 2007

University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB



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keynote speakers


Daniel Fried | University of Alberta
Roger Lüdeke | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Keith Oatley | University of Toronto


visiting speakers


Willie van Peer | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Sonia Zyngier | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Daniel Fried received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard in 2003, and then taught for four years in the English department of Taiwan's National Central University; in July, he joined the faculty of the University of Alberta, with a joint appointment in East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature. His articles on the history of Chinese and European criticism have appeared in journals such as Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews, Comparative Literature, and Review of English Studies, among others; his latest article, on "Chinese westerns," will appear in the October issue of PMLA.

Roger Lüdeke studied English, Spanish, and Comparative Literature in Munich, Sevilla, Mexico City, London, and Paris. Previous publications include "Henry James's System of Revision," "Aesthetic Sovereignty and the Political Imagination of the Eighteenth Century. William Blake's Art of Writing." Since 2006 he is full member of the LMU/DFG research group "Beginnings of/in Modernity." Since summer 2007 he works as temporary Professor for English Literature at Munich University. He has also published in the fields of Early Modern and Contemporary Drama, Literary Theory, 'World Literature,' Film, and Interart/Intermedia Studies.

Keith Oatley is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His interests have been research in physiological psychology, visual perception, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, & epidemiological psychiatry. During the last fifteen years he has also conducted research on the cognitive and emotional processes of reading and writing fiction. He is the author of more than 130 journal articles and chapters, five books of psychology, which include Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions (1992) and (with Jennifer Jenkins) Understanding Emotions (1996). Keith Oatley is also the author of two novels. The first, The Case of Emily V., won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel.

Willie van Peer holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University, and is Professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Munich, former President of IGEL (International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature) and former President of PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association). He has been Visiting Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University. He is the author of several books and many articles on poetics and the epistemological foundations of literary studies, including Stylistics and Psychology: Investigations of Foregrounding (London, 1986). He edited The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture (Routledge, 1988), together with Seymour Chatman, New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (SUNY Press, 2001), and together with Max Louwerse, Thematics. Interdisciplinary Studies (Benjamins, 2002).

Sonia Zyngier is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the Postgraduate Program of Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (UK). She is currently co-editor of the IGEL Newsletter, and a member of PALA, to which she was Secretary for 5 years. She has also published widely on literary awareness, stylistics, and corpus analysis of literary discourse. Some articles have appeared in Language Awareness, Language and Literature and Style. She hasÊwritten an article on pedagogical stylistics for the 2nd edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. In collaboration with Willie van Peer and Jemeljan Hakemulder, she published Muses and Measures: Empirical Research methods for the Humanities in 2007. She has also co-edited Literature and Stylistics for Language Learners with Greg Watson in 2006. Together with Willie van Peer, she has founded the REDES International Research Group.


Sponsors:
Graduate Student's Association | Comparative Literature Program
University of Alberta International | English and Film Studies

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