Stanley Corngold
Languages: German, French; Italian

Areas of Interest: 
Modern German literature
European critical theory
Romanticism

Maria DiBattista
Languages: Italian, French, Spanish

Areas of Interest: 
19th-and 20th-century English and American literature
Narrative/narrative theory

Caryl Emerson
Languages: Russian, Czech, German, French

Areas of Interest: 
19th-and 20th-century Russian and Central European prose
Russian music
Russian literary theory
History of the novel

John Fleming
Languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian

Areas of Interest: 
Medieval literature and cultural history

Thomas Hare
Languages: Japanese (early, medieval, modern), Classical Chinese, French, German, Middle Egyptian

Areas of Interest: 
Early and Medieval Japanese Literature (especially drama and poetics)
Traditional Japanese Music
Buddhism and Literature
Literary Theory
Ancient Egyptian Writing and Representational Styles

Daniel Heller-Roazen
Languages: French, Italian, German, Old French, Old ProvenHal, Latin, Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic

Areas of Interest: 
Medieval Poetry & Poetics
The Classical Tradition
History & Theory of the Lyric
Philosophy of Language
Aesthetics

Alexander Nehamas
Languages: Greek (ancient & modern); German, French

Areas of Interest: 
Plato
Nietzsche
History & practice of aesthetics

Andrew Plaks
Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew

Areas of Interest: 
The novel
Narrative theory

Eileen Reeves
Languages: Italian, French, Latin

Areas of Interest: 
Renaissance and Baroque Literature
Science and Literature

Gabriel Riera
Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian

Areas of Interest: 
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature
Modern and Contemporary French Literature
Philosophy and Literary Theory
Psychoanalysis and Literature

Michael Wood
Languages: Spanish, French

Areas of Interest: 
Theory of the novel
Latin American Literature
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Film
Literary Theory

Froma Zeitlin
Languages: Ancient Greek, French, Hebrew

Areas of Interest: 
Greek tragedy and religious thought
Studies in the Holocaust

CALENDAR FOR DEPARTMENTAL INDEPENDENT WORK 2005/2006

Seniors

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 (4:30 p.m.)
Meeting with Undergraduate Director in room 127 East Pyne. 

5 page, double-spaced abstract of first chapter, initialed by both advisers, is due in departmental office, 133 East Pyne.  2 pages of this abstract should discuss the books, databases, or research tools you have used.  Please send it as an attachment to Mary George (mwgeorge@princeton.edu) as well; use the subject line "COM sr thesis abstract" in the header.

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Introduction to independent research tools and techniques.   Meet Mary George at the square bench in the front lobby of Firestone Library. 

20 pp. of first draft of thesis, due in departmental office, 133 East Pyne.