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Robert Chodat
rchodat@bu.edu
Assistant Professor. B.A., M.A., McGill; Ph.D., Stanford 

Teaching and Research Interests: post-WWII American fiction; modernism; literary theory and interpretation; American intellectual history; philosophy of mind; literature and ethics.
Selected Publications:  Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo (2008); “Philosophy and the American Novel,” Cambridge History of the American Novel (forthcoming 2010); “A Commitment to the Meaningful,” Twentieth-Century Literature (2008); “Naturalism and Narrative, or, What Computers and Human Beings Can’t Do,” New Literary History (2007); “Jokes, Fiction, and Lorrie Moore,” Twentieth-Century Literature (2006); “Fictions Public and Private: On Philip Roth,” Contemporary Literature (2005); “Sense, Science, and the Interpretations of Gertrude Stein,” Modernism/Modernity (2005); “The Many Uses of Dialogue: Eliot, Stevens, and the Foreign Word,” English Language Notes (2004); “Beyond Scientism and Supermen: Bellow and Mind at Mid-Century,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (2003); “Real Toads and Imaginary Gardens: Freud and Davidson on Meaning and Metaphor,” Representing Realities: Essays on American Literature, Art, and Culture (2003); “History, Ethics, and the Fragility of a Person: Two Rival Versions,” Ethics and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Studies (2001).
Honors, Grants, and Awards: BU Humanities Foundation Fellowship (2008-9); Humboldt Research Fellowship (2006-7); Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003-4); Mabel McLeod Lewis Fellowship (2002-3); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium (1999).