Curriculum
Vitae
Maire
Jaanus
Professor
of English
English Department, Barnard College
Degrees
in Higher Education
Harvard
University, 1962-68
Ph.D.
Comparative Literature, 1968
Major:
English (Medieval to 1959), Minor: German & French (1750 to 1959)
Vassar College 1957-61
B.A.
cum laude in English, 1961
Major:
English
Additional
Professional Training
Cambridge
University, England, 1961-62 Fulbright Scholar
University
of Munich, Germany, 1959-1960 Junior Year Abroad
Professional
Experience in Higher Education
1981
to present Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Barnard College
1969-76
Assistant Professor
1968-69
Instructor
Columbia
College (taught upper level Humanities for decades)
Columbia
Graduate School 1986-92, 2001
Columbia
Summer School, 1981; 1986; 1998
State
University of Illinois, Spring 1968
Julliard
School of Music, 1965-66 part-time
Teaching
Fellow, General Education, Harvard 1963-64
Publications
(under
Maire J. Said to 1970; Maire J. Kurrik 1971-1983)
Books
Chapters
in Books
“Tammsaare ja armastus,” Vikerkaar 20: Vallik Esseesid 1986-2005, ed. Märt Väljata (Tallinn, Estonia: AS Packett Trükikoda, 2006)
“Estonia and Pain: Jaan Kross's The Czar's Madman” Baltic Postcolonialism (Amsterdam-New York: Rodoiphe, 2006)
“Eesti ja Valu: Jaan Krossi Keisri hull,” Metamorfiline Kross (Tallinn, Estonia: Eesti TA Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus, 2005) 77-94.
Introduction and Notes for Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004)
"'A
Civilization of Hatred': The Other in the Imaginary" in Reading Seminars
I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, eds. Feldstein, Fink, & Jaanus (SUNY
Press, 1996) 323-355.
"Kundera
and Lacan: Drive, Desire, and Oneiric Narration" in Lacan, Politics,
Aesthetics, eds. Willi Apollon & R. Feldstein (SUNY Press, 1996)
199-235.
"The
Démontage of the Drive," in Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four
Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, eds. Feldstein, Fink, & Jaanus
(SUNY Press, 1995) 119-136.
"An
Interview with Jacqueline Rose" together with Michael Payne in Rose, Why
War? - Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Return to Melanie Klein (Blackwell,
1993) 231-255.
Journal
Articles
“Anna Karenina and the passage à l’acte,” in Psychoanalytic Notebooks, 14/ 2005
“Tammsaare and Love,” Interlitteraia (Tartu University Press, 10/2005)
“The Concept of Jouissance and its Significance for the Humanities,” International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1, (2003)
"Bewilderment
as a Symptom," Clinical Studies, vol. 5, no.2 (2000)
"Estonia
and Pain: Jaan Kross' The Czar's Madman," Journal of Baltic
Studies XXXI, no.3 (2000)
"The
Ethics of the Real in Lacan's Seminar VII," special issue on Ethics and the
Superego in Freud and Lacan, Literature and Psychology XXXXII
no.1-2 (1997)
"Estonia's
Time and Monumental Time," Journal of Baltic Studies XXVII, no. 2
(1997)
Mati
Unt's "We, Actors, Writers" co-translated
with Mardi Valgemäe, The Literary Review, (Summer, 1996)
Mati
Unt's "The Ever-dying Farm," co-translated
with Mardi Valgemäe, The Literary Review (Summer, 1996)
"Inhibition,
Heautoscopy, Movement in the Freudian and Lacanian Body" in Literature
and Psychology XXXVI, no.4 (1990) 1-26.
"Viivi
Luik: War and Peace; Body and Genotext," Journal of Baltic Studies
XX, no. 3 (1989) 265-282.
"The
Self in Language: Viivi Luik's Seitsmes
Rahukevad," Lituanus 34, no. 1 (1988) 36-53.
"Toward
a Feminist Body Politics," Critical Texts (April, 1985) 13-5.
"Jacques
Lacan: Body and Language," The CPS Consort (1982) 10-12.
"Translation
and Loss: Mati Unt's Doomsday," Lituanus (Summer, 1978) 21-5.
"Mati
Unt's Via Regia: Form and
Praxis," Journal of Baltic Studies (Fall, 1977) 214-222.
"Robinson
Jeffers's Negations: The Dialectics of `Not' in `The Bloody Sire,'" Psychocultural
Review (Spring, 1977) 195-201.
Mati
Unt, Doomsday, co-translated with Mardi Valgemäe, Modern
International Drama (Spring, 1977) 43-64.i
"Negation
and the Tragic," The Centennial Review (Spring, 1976) 165-188.
"Modernism
in Estonia: The Prose of Mati Unt," Journal of Baltic Studies
(Summer/Fall, 1975) 170-179.
"The
Novel's Subjectivity: Georg Lukacs's Theory of the Novel," Salmagundi
(Summer/Fall, 1975) 104-24.
"Some
Letters of Hermann Broch to Edith," Books Abroad (Summer, l974)
"Juhan
Smuul's Moral Propaganda," Journal of Baltic Studies (Fall, 1973)
"Erich
Auerbach, 'Philologie der Weltliteratur,'" co-translated with Edward W.
Said, The Centennial Review (Winter, 1969) 1-17.
Translations
of my Work into Estonian
“Tammsaare ja Armastus,” trans. Kajar Pruul, Vikerkaar, 1-2/2005
"Eesti
ja Valu: Jaan Krossi Keisri Hull," trans. Kajar Pruul, Vikerkaar,
no. (2001)
"Eesti
Aeg ja Monumentaalaeg," Akadeemia, trans. Ene-Reet Soovik, (August 8, 1997)
"Mati
Undi Via regia: vorm ja praxis," trans. Kristin Sarv, Vikerkaar,
no.1-2 (1997)
"Ritual
Dream," a chapter from Rowing in Eden, trans. Katrin Kiik , Vikerkaar,
no 4, 1994. 7-12.
"Tølkimine
ja kaotus: Mati Undi 'Viimnepäev,'" trans.
Vikerkaar, no.12 (1993)
"Kundera
ja Lacan; Don Juan, Iha ja Unenaonarratsioon," trans. Kristin Haljasorg, Vikerkaar,
no.7 (July, 1992) 53-63.
"Jacques
Lacani alateadvuslik individualism: keha ja keel," trans.
Toomas Rosin, Vikerkaar,
no. 11 (1990) 66-9.
A
chapter from my novel, She, in Estonian trans. Katrin Kiik, Vikerkaar,
no. 11 (1990) 22-8.
"Modernism
Eestis: Mati Undi proosa," trans. Anne Allpere, Vikerkaar,
no. 4 (1990) 55-60.
"Viivi
Luik: Söda ja rahu; keha ja genotekst,"
I, trans. Anne Allpere, Vikerkaar,
no. 4 (1989) 59-62.
"Viivi
Luik: Söda ja rahu; keha ja genotekt," II, trans. Anne Allpere,
Vikerkaar,
no. 5 (1989) 57-62.
"Mina
Keeles: Viivi Luike Seitsmes Rahukevad," trans. Krista Kaer, Keel
ja Kirjandus (1989) 129-137.
Translation
of my Work into Portuguese
Para
Ler o Seminario 11 de Lacan
Book
Reviews
Marina
Thorborg, Women Around the Baltic Sea: Part I: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Journal of Baltic Studies (Summer, 1994)
Elaine
Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, Critical
Texts (Spring/Summer, 1986) 25-8.
Walter
Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical
Mati
Unt, Must mootorrattur, World Literature Today (Spring, 1977)
"Young
Lukacs," Partisan Review, 4 (1977) 646-649.
Der
Letze Strandräuber: Estnische Erzählungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten,
Books Abroad (Autumn, 1976)
Mati
Unt, Via Regia, Books Abroad (Spring, 1976)
Jaan
Kross, Vier Monologe Anno Domini 1506, Books Abroad (Summer, 1975)
Lucia
Getsi, trans., Georg Trakl: Poems, Books Abroad (Summer, 1974)
Juhan
Smuul, Die Witwe and andere komische Monologe, Books Abroad
(Autumn, 1973
Enrico
Garcilli, Circles Without Center: Paths to the Discovery of Self in Modern
Literature, Books Abroad (Summer, 1973)
Herbert
Lindenberger, Georg Trakl, Books Abroad (Winter, 1973)
Alex
Natan, ed., German Men of Letters Vol. V., Books Abroad (Winter,
1971)
J.C.
Alldridge, Ilse Aichinger, Books Abroad (Winter, 1971)
Ror
Wolf, Danke schön. Nichts zu
danken, Books Abroad (Spring, 1970)
Publications Forthcoming
“A Psychoanalytic Reading of Socrates: Lacan on Plato’s Symposium in Seminar VIII: The Transference,” Socrates: Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of European Identity, ed. Ann Ward (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Oct/Nov, 2007)
“Democracy and Feminine Jouissance,” Literature and Psychoanalysis, ed. Henry Alvin, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)
“Hamlet and Feminine Jouissnace,” The Shakespeare Yearbook (Oct/2007)
"Inhibition, Heautoscopy, Movement in the Freudian and Lacanian Body," reprinted in Bodytheory, eds. Michelle Barker & Stephen Barker (2008)
"The Aesthetics of the Real: Keats, Kant, and Lacan, in Extimité: Theories of the Other
"The Passion for Death in Kincaid's My Brother and Autobiography of my Mother," in a volume of the first Caribbean Conference
"The Jouissance of Young Werther and the Ethics of Passionate Love," in a volume tentatively titled Sexuation (in English, Spanish, & French versions)
Conference
Presentations and Professional Lectures
“A Psychoanalytic Reading of Socrates,” Tenth World Congress of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Malta, July 26, 2006
“Democracy and the Late Lacan: What if Women Ran the World?” The Fourth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, July 5, 2006
“Lacan Seminar 17: Knowledge, Repetition, Entropy,” NYFLAG, Barnard College, April 19, 2006
“The Hole and objet a in Shakespeare’s Hamlet,” "Shakespeare and Theory Re-thought," Special session at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 23, 2006
“Democracy and Feminine Jouissance,” Keynote Address at Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 22, 2006
“The Semblant and the Real and about the Semblants between the Sexes,” NYFLAG, Barnard College, February 15, 2006
“Introduction to Reading Lacan’s Seminar on Anxiety,” January 25, 2006
“The Psychological and Psychoanalytic Roots of Slavery” University of Accra, Ghana, November 26, 2005
“Lacan on the Body Event,” NYFLAG, Barnard College, October 12, 2005
“A Psychoanalytic Reading of Plato’s Symposium,” Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities,” University of Cambridge, England, August 5, 2005
“Anna Karenina and the passage à l’acte,” The New Lacanian School Conference on Anxiety, University of London, May 21-2, 2005
"Democracy and Jouissance" Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Conference on Psychoanalysis and Democracy, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, Sunday, October 17th 2004
"Monotheism, Monosexuality and the Not-All" at the Nomos International Conference on Freud's Moses and the Traumatized Human Subject, Teachers College, Columbia University, Saturday, October 16th, 2004
“Suicidal Jouissance in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina,” The Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy July 20-23, 2004
“Feminine Jouissance and Clarice Lispector,” Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 8-11, 2004
“The Concept of Jouissance: Its Past and Future Position in and Significance for the Humanities,” International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, Greece, July 2-5, 2003
“The Emotionalisation of Language: Herder to Lacan,” The Eight Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society at the University of Pennsylvania, October 25, 2002
"Tammsaare and Love,” The 18th Conference on Baltic Studies: The Baltic States in the Era of Globalization, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD June 6-8, 2002
"Trauma in Literature and Psychoanalysis,” Panel Presentation at the Conference on Trauma and its Aftermath: Eight Case Studies and the Lacanian Orientation. A clinical Conference of the Freudian Field, New York State Psychiatric Institute April 27 & 28, 2002.
“The Psychotic’s Body,” NY Freud-Lacan Study Group, Columbia University, May 5, 2002
“The Freudian Development of the Concept of Trauma,” The NY Freud-Lacan Study Group, Columbia University, April 7, 2002
“The Labyrinth of Love in Lacan and Racine,” Cartel of the NY Freud-Lacan Study Group, March 10, 2002
“The Body Event in Lacan,” Cartel of the NY Freud-Lacan Study Group, March 24, 2002
“Schreber’s Memoirs and Lacan’s Psychosis Seminar,” The New York Freud-Lacan Study,October 21, 2001
"The
Logic of Pleasure: Kant, Keats, and Lacan," Conference on Art, Psychoanalysis and Science: The Unsolved Riddles, Benjamin Cardozo
School of Law, New York City, June 25-26,2000
"Estonia
and Pain: Jaan Kross' The Czar's Madman," 17th Conference on Baltic
Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., June 17, 2000
"Bewilderment
as a Symptom," Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Teacher College, Columbia University,
Oct. 29-31, 1999
"Europe's
Ethical Legacy, Identity, and the Passions of the Colonized in Jaan Kross's
Estonia," The New Europe at the Crossroads, III, 1999 Teikyo University,
Berlin, Germany, July 4-8, 1999
"The
Passion of Hatred in Kincaid's My Brother and Autobiography of my
Mother," First International Conference on Caribbean Literature,
Nassau, Bahamas, November 4, 1998
"The
Empire of the Drives in Onnepalu's Measure," 16th Conference on
Baltic Studies, Indiana University, June 19-20, 1998
"Baltic
Postcolonialism," discussant for papers at MLA, Toronto, December 29, 1997
"A
Modern Look at Jane Eyre," The Barnard Connection: Lectures, Readings and Panel Discussions,
October 9, 1997
"The
Jouissance of Young Werther and the Ethics of Passionate Love," International
Conference on Sexuation, Teacher's College, Columbia University,
April 12, 1997
"The
Ethics of the Imaginary and the Ethics of the Real," Fifth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University for Humanist Studies in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, August 19-24,
1996
"Estonia's
Time and Monumental Time," 15th Conference on Baltic studies, Bentley
College, Waltham, Massachusetts, June 27-9, 1996
"The
Legacy of the Real in Freud and Lacan," Fourth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Graz, Austria, August 26,
1994
"Tolstoy
and Lacan: Transference, Drive, and Suicide
in Anna Karenina," VII International
Encounter of the Freudian Field," Caracas, Venezuela,
July 24, 1992
"The
Lacanian Conception of the Drive and the objet petit a, Part II,"
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, April 14, 1992
"Tolstoy's
Realism and the Lacanian Real in Anna Karenina" Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association, April 3, 1992
"The
Lacanian Conception of the Drive" National Psychological Association for
Psychoanalysis, February 14, 1992
"The
Ethics of the Imaginary: Kant, Kristeva, and Lacan," Conference on
Psychoanalysis and History of the Existential and Phenomenological Society,
October, 1990
Deconstructions:
Feuerbach, Kristeva, and Lacan's 'Deconstruction of the Drive'," The Lacan
Seminar in English, Paris, France, June 17, l990
"Kundera
and Lacan: Don Juan, Desire, and Oneiric Narration," Conference on Lacan,
Culture, and Sexual Identity at Kent State University May 26, 1990
"Inhibition,
Heautoscopy, Movement, in the Freudian and Lacanian Body," 15th Annual
Meeting of The International Association for Philosophy and Literature at
University of California, Irvine, April 28, 1990
"Viivi
Luik: Body and Genotext,
War and Peace," 11th Conference on Baltic Studies, June 10, 1988
"The
Lacanian Body and the Analytic Cure," Third Annual Conference of the
Paris-New York Psychoanalytic Workshop, April 9, 1988
"The
Lacanian Unconscious," Paris-New York
Psychoanalytic Workshop, Barnard College, Oct. 15, 1986
"The
Self in Language:Viivi Luik's Seitsmes Rahukevad," Conference on
Baltic Studies, University of Wisconsin, May 31, 1986
"The
Culture of the Body: Reflections on Some Nineteenth Century Texts,"
March 27, 1986, Columbia University Nineteenth Century Society
"The Romantic Defense of the Poetic," May 3, 1985,
English Department, University of Rome, Italy
"Shelley's
Frankenstein and the Feminine Sublime," May 8, 1985, English
Department, University of Rome, Italy
"Dickens's
Great Expectations: Mourning
and the Maternal," May 15, 1985, English Department, University of Rome,
Italy
"What
is the Role of Literary Theory in the Nuclear Age?
Lacan and Kristeva,"
April 11, 1984, Columbia University Lecture Series on Critics, Methods and
Schools
"Lacan
and Feminism," The Scholar and Feminist Conference, IX, Barnard, April 14, 1982
"Jacques
Lacan: Body and Language," Dickinson College, February 18, 1982
"The
Body in Modern Literature and Philosophy," Barnard Alumnae Reunion, May 21, 1982
"The
Body in Literature and Modern Thought," Douglas College, Body
Colloquium, October 14, 1981
"The
Meaning of the Renaissance," Queens College Continuing Education Program, June 18, 1980
"The
Novel and the Self's Negativity: Lukacs's Theory of the Novel," MLA
Special Session on Georg Lukacs, New York, December 28, 1978
"Mati
Unt's Via Regia," Conference on Baltic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden,
June 11, 1977
"The
Textualized Self in Mati Unt," Conference on Baltic Studies,
University of Wisconsin, April 30, 1977
"Jeffers's
Negations," MLA Workshop on Reader Criticism, New York, December 19, 1976
"Translation
and Loss," Conference on Baltic Studies, New York, May 21, 1976
"Modernism
in Estonia," Conference on Baltic Studies, Chicago, May, 1974
Courses
Taught
Barnard:
English
A Original form and under the
topics: The Political Imagination; Civilization and Its Discontents; The Modern
Tradition; The Tradition of Love
English
2 Special
Seminar in Reading and Writing
English
40 The City in
Literature
English
40 Mimesis and
Interpretation: The Figure of Christ in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, the Fine Arts,
Music, &
Film
English
40 The Human Body in
20th Century Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Religion,
Dance, & the Fine
Arts
English
59-60 Ideas of Order and Disorder: The Junior Colloquium 1500-1800 with
Professor Ulanov
English
60 Imitation and
Creation: The Junior Colloquium
with Professor Morse
English
59-60 Skepticism and Affirmation: The Junior Colloquium
English
71 The Novel (18th
& 19th century British)
English
71 The Culture of the
Novel
English
76 Romanticism
English
89 British and American
Literature Since World War II
English
89 Post-Modern
Literature
English
93 Literary Criticism:
Analysis and Evaluation
English
97 Studies in the
Novel: Subjectivity and Authority
English
97 The Novel and Its
Poetics
English
97 Literary Theory
English
97 The Novel and Novel
Theory
English
97 Body and Language
English
98 Modernism
English
99 Independent Study
Humanities
3 Myths and Symbols of Modernity:
From Goethe to Jung with Professors Ulanov and
Gaster
Eng-Comp
Lit 71 The Culture of the Novel (19th c. Interdisciplinary & Comparative
literature)
Eng-Comp
Lit 94 Postmodern Texts and Theory
Eng-Comp
Lit 90 Global Literature in English with Prof. Stewart
Columbia
Undergraduate Courses
Humanities
V3003x 19th c Readings in European
Literature & Philosophy Humanities V3003y
20th c Readings in European Literature & Philosophy
Columbia
Graduate Courses
Comparative
Literature G6801y
Theory of Fiction Seminar
Comparative
Literature G6531
Issues in Contemporary Literary Theory
Comparative
Literature G6565 Studies
in the Modern Comparative Novel: Proust, Joyce,
and Mann
Comparative
Literature W4540
Postmodern Texts and Theory
Columbia
Summer School
Comparative
Literature S4563
Theory of Criticism and Literature
English
S4902
History of the English Novel
Comparative
Literature S4531
Issues in Contemporary Theory
Comparative
Literature S4540
Postmodern Texts and Theory
Harvard
1963-64
Humanities
5 Comedy: Aristophanes to Joyce
Cary
Julliard
School of Music
Humanities:
Pre-Socratics to St. Augustine
State
University of Illinois
Short
Fiction & the Novel