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Classics and Italian: Bay of Naples
Classical Culture in Modern Italy

June 29 - July 26, 2008

Classics - Italy Instructor Bio

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Thomas J. Harrison, Associate Professor with a PhD in Comparative Literature from C.U.N.Y., focuses his research on the 19th and 20th centuries. His interests cover poetry, the novel, aesthetic theory, philosophy, and film. He is the author of a multidisciplinary study of European expressionism called 1910: THE EMANCIPATION OF DISSONANCE (1996) and of ESSAYISM: CONRAD, MUSIL & PIRANDELLO (1992). Two of his edited collections are NIETZSCHE IN ITALY (1988) and THE FAVORITE MALICE: ONTOLOGY AND REFERENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN POETRY (1983). He has written articles on D'Annunzio, Ungaretti, Montale, Zanzotto, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Stanley Fish, Alfredo Giuliani, Carlo Michelstaedter, and Georg Lukacs. Before joining the faculty of UCLA in 1994 he taught in Italian and comparative literature programs at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Utah.