8/21/99

http://itp.berkeley.edu/~jpaulin
 

• EDUCATION

•  Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 5/96
•  M.A.,  University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 1988
•  B.A. *,   University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Comparative Literature,
Cum Laude, 1986
•  B.A. *,   University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Classics,
Summa cum laude, 1986
Minor in Chemistry

(* BAs earned in separate courses of study).
 
 

• DISSERTATION

 
•  Title: The Pathos of Reason: Aesthetic Grounds for the Presentation of the Ethical Subject in Sophoclean and Shelleyan Tragedy.

•  Committee: Anthony Cascardi, chair, David Lloyd, Steven Goldsmith.
•  Areas of Doctoral Qualifying Exams:
English Romantic literature.
Greek oral verse, archaic lyric, tragedy and philosophy.
Latin poetry (Augustan).
• HONORS

•  Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 1994-95.
•  Chancellor's Fellowship (alternate) 1993.
•  Regents' Fellowship, 1992-3.
•  Louis McKay prize for the translation of Latin Verse, 1990.
•  Grace Wiltshire Drake Fellowship, 1986-87.
•  Commonwealth Scholar, 1986.

• CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA

•  "Using the Internet in your Comparative Literature Class." Colloquium organized and led by John Paulin, Berkeley 1995.

 
•  "Contingency and Practical Reason in Aristotle's Poetics." Paper delivered at "Persons, Passions, Powers" conference, Berkeley 1992.

 
• PUBLICATIONS

 
• The Pathos of Reason: the Tragic Aesthetic in Sophocles, Aristotle, Kant and Derrida. Book manuscript submitted to Stanford University Press.

• Tyrannies, Tragedy and Utopia: Kant, Nietzsche and the Sensus Communis of Shelley's Aesthetic Polity. Book proposal submitted to Stanford University Press.

•  "Unnatural Aesthetics: Monstrosity, Moralism and the Deformation of the Sensiblity in Shelley's Cenci." Journal article being revised at the request of the editors of  "Philosophy and Literature."

 
• TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

 
• English Romantic Literature. Anglophone drama, poetry and poetics.
• Classical tragedy and lyric. The epic. Mythology and allegory. Popular culture.
• Critical theory. Philosophical approaches to literature--ethics and aesthetics.
• History of the English Language. Etymology.
• Composition.  Computer assisted pedagogy.

• LANGUAGES

•   Greek, Latin, French, German, Old and Middle English.

• TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

 
• Comp.Lit 165: “From Cerberus to Cyberpunk -- Mythology, the Millennium & Popular Culture"

Adjunct Professor in Comparative Literature, UCB Department  Comparative Literature. Summer 1999.
 
• Rhetoric 122: "Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama"

Adjunct Professor in Rhetoric, UCB Department of Rhetoric . Spring 1999
 
• Rhetoric 20: “The History of Interpretation.”

Adjunct Professor in Rhetoric, UCB Department of Rhetoric. Summer 1998
 
• Spring 1998, Reader, Greek Tragedy, UCB Department of Classics.Spring 1998.
• Latin 2: "Caesar and Catullus"

 Adjunct Professor in Latin, UCB Department of Classics. Fall 1997.
 
• Comp.Lit. 1B: "Vagrants and Visitations: Popular Culture, Mythology and the Gothic"

Adjunct Professor in Comparative Literature, UCB Department  Comparative Literature. Spring 1997.
 
• Classics 35: "Aeschylus to Soyinka: Greek Tragedies and their Anglophone Legacy"

 Adjunct Professor in Greek Tragedy, UCB Department of Classics. Fall 1996.
 
• Spring 1996, ESL Instructor, Berkeley English Academy.
• Spring 1995, Reader, Greek Tragedy, UCB Department of Classics.
• 1989-94 Graduate Student Instructor,  English Comp. and World Lit., UCB Comp.Lit.
• 1988-89 Teaching Assistant, English Comp. and World Lit., UCB Comp.Lit.

• POSITIONS HELD

• 1998-99, Visiting Scholar, U. C. Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature.
• 1995-96, Assistant Coordinator, Holloway Poetry Series (UCB English Department).
• Spring 1995, Coordinator of  Educational Computer Applications (Comp.Lit).

• MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Modern Language Association

•  REFERENCES

 
• Anthony Cascardi, Depts of Comp.Lit. and Rhetoric, Dwinelle Hall,

U.C.Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720. Phone 510 642 6650.
Fax 510 642 8881 (Dept. of Rhetoric 510 642 1415)
ajc1@socrates.berkeley.edu
• Judith Butler, Depts of Comp.Lit. and Rhetoric, Dwinelle Hall,

U.C.Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720. Phone 510 642 2159.
Fax 510 642 8881 (Dept. of Rhetoric 510 642 1415)
jpbutler@socrates.berkeley.edu
• David Lloyd, 213 Humanities Bldg., Scripps College,

1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711-3948
Phone 909 607 1819. Fax 909 621 8323 (Humanities Dept.)
dlloyd@scrippscol.edu
• Steven Goldsmith, Dept. of English, Wheeler Hall, U.C. Berkeley,

Berkeley CA 94720. Phone 510 642 4073 . Fax 510 642 8738.
(English Dept. 510 642 3467) sgsmith@uclink4.berkeley.edu
• Frederick M. Dolan,  Dept. of Rhetoric, Dwinelle Hall, U.C.Berkeley,

Berkeley CA 94720. Phone 510 642 3041. Fax 510 642 8881
(Dept. of Rhetoric 510 642 1415) fmdolan@socrates.berkeley.edu
 
• William S. Anderson, Depts of Comp.Lit and Classics, Dwinelle Hall,

U.C.Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720. Phone 510 642 4218.
Fax 510 643 6984. wsa@socrates.berkeley.edu
 

 
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