Faculty Research

Prof. Foltz Publishes Article on Film Novelizations

In the most recent issue of Modernism/modernity, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the neglected literary genre of the film novelization.  In the article, Prof. Foltz details the historical origins of the genre as a commercial product, and proceeds to consider the formal and generic questions afflicting the novelization as a distressed re-mediation […]

Prof. Lopes de Barros Publishes New Book, “Ménage Literário, Literary Menage, Ménage Literario”

“Jacques Fux’s writing is characterized by intertextuality, self-reflexiveness, and a ludic (and lucid) stance in relation to his questions about literature and life, fiction and reality. In the short story “Ménage à Trois” and the film Literary Ménage: An investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux, directed by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Fux evokes or […]

Frederick Publishes Article in “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media”

Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Girls’ magazines and the creation of ‘shōjo’ identities in the first edition of the “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media” The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television […]

Prof. Cazenave “An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah'”

 In her  first book, An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (SUNY Press, 2019), Professor Jennifer Cazenave undertakes a comprehensive examination of the 220 hours of filmic material Claude Lanzmann excluded from his 1985 Holocaust opus. In retrieving alternative eyewitness accounts captured by the camera but ultimately left on the cutting room […]

Prof. Foltz’s New Book: The Novel After Film

Recently out from Oxford University Press is Prof. Jonathan Foltz’s first book, The Novel After Film.  The Novel After Film is a study of the relation between film aesthetics and the development of the modernist novel.  It offers a substantial reassessment of the paradoxical condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel […]