Jed Deppman Assistant Professor of English and Director of Comparative Literature Program Oberlin College jdeppman@oberlin.edu

Publications

Book:

Translator, Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes. Co-editor with Michael Groden and Daniel Ferrer. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Articles and Book Chapters:

“History in the Poetry of Próspero Saíz: A Reading of ‘document.’” MELUS (Multi- 2005 Ethnic Literatures of the United States). 30: 1 (2005): 205-233.

“Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. 14: 1 (2005): 2005 84-103.

“Genetic Criticism.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Revised 2004 Edition. With Daniel Ferrer and Michael Groden. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, eds. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University  Press, 427-30.

“Re-Presenting Paul Valéry’s Monsieur Teste.” Symploké. 11: 1-2 (2003): 197-211. 2003.

“The Return of Medievalism: James Joyce in 1923.” European Joyce Studies. 13: 1 (2002): 39-71.

“‘I Could Not Have Defined the Change’: Rereading the Definition Poems.” The 2002 Emily Dickinson Journal. 11: 1 (2002): 49-80.

“Dickinson, Death, and the Sublime.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. 9: 1 (2000): 1-20. 2000.

“Joyce, Vico, and the Lord’s Prayer.” European Joyce Studies. 9:1 (1999): 65-82. 1999.

“Jean-Luc Nancy, Myth, and Literature.” Qui Parle. 10: 2 (1997): 11-32. 1997

“History with Style: The Impassible Writing of Flaubert.” Style. 30: 1 (1996): 28-49. 1996

“Hallow’d Chronickles and Exploytes of King Rodericke O’Conor from Joyce’s Earliest 1995 Draftes to the End of Causal Historie.” Probes: Genetic Studies in Joyce. Sam Slote and David Hayman, eds. NY: Rodopi. 179-202.

Research Interests

Dickinson, philosophy, & literary theory

Comparative Literature and Translation

19th- and 20th century French & American literature

Genetic Criticism