Contact
Maire Jaanus
Professor of English
Office: 402 Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-2106
E-mail: mjaanus(at)barnard(dot)edu
Classes: W 11-12:50 & 2:10-4
Office hours: W 4:10-6:10
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/english/Jaanus/index.htm
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
A.B., Vassar College
Biography
Specialization: 19th-century comparative literature, especially romantic and the novel; 20th-century global English literature; literary theory, especially psychoanalytic (Lacanian); and postmodernism.
She is the co-editor of Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (SUNY, 1996) and of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts (SUNY, 1995). She is the author of She--a Novel (Doubleday, 1984), Literature and Negation (CU Press, 1979;Rept., 1988), Georg Trakl (CU Press, 1974).
Recent articles include: "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," Literature and Psychology XXXXII no.1-2 (1997); "Estonia's Time and Monumental Time," Journal of Baltic Studies XXVII, no. 2 (1997); and "Kundera and Lacan: Drive, Desire, and Oneiric Narration," Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics, eds. Willi Apollon & R. Feldstein (SUNY, 1996).