Contact
Cary Plotkin
Senior Lecturer in English
Office: 401B Barnard Hall
Phone: 212-854-2101
E-mail: cplotkin(at)barnard(dot)edu
Classes: T Th 1:10-2:25, T 4:10-6, W 4:10-6
Office hours: T W 6-7
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/english/Plotkin/index.html
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Yale University
Biography
In addition to the degrees above, Cary Plotkin also studied at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and, as a Fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich).
His courses at Barnard include Victorian Poetry and Criticism, The Romantic Era, Major English Texts, The Renaissance Colloquium, The Enlightenment Colloquium, A History of Criticism, First-year English, First-year Seminar, and senior seminars on early 19th-century literature, Victorian to Modern literature, "Crises of Modernism," and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Caen (France), where he gave cours magistraux d’agrégation on Robert Browning and George Meredith, a master’s level course on R. Browning, and "undergraduate" courses on Jane Austen and P. B. Shelley. He also prepared a series of eight radio lectures on Browning and on Austen.
His field of scholarly activity covers English, French, and German poetry of the 19th century. He is the author of The Tenth Muse: Victorian Philology and the Poetic Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the editor of the forthcoming Soundings: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Hopkins Quarterly Critics. His essays and articles include "Ametaphoricity and Presence in Hopkins’s Poetics," "Ist es möglich, philosophisch ‘modern’ zu denken: Der Blick von auβen," "In propria persona: le masque libérateur et carcéral chez Robert Browning," and "Victorian Religious Poetry" in The Columbia History of British Poetry.
He has translated Jacques Derrida’s "Scribble (pouvoir/écrire)" and Georg Lukács’ " Die Subjekt-Objekt Beziehung in der Ästhetik."
He serves on the Board of Scholars of The Hopkins Quarterly and has written opera librettos.