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Cary H. Plotkin
Senior Lecturer in English
Cary H. Plotkin is a Senior Lecturer in English at Barnard College. In addition to his teaching duties for the department, he is also affiliated with Barnard's Comparative Literature Program.
Dr. Plotkin's scholarly focus is on nineteenth-century English, French, and German poetry. His teaching at Barnard has included such courses as “History of Literary Criticism,” “Victorian Poetry and Criticism,” “Major English Texts,” and “The Romantic Era.” He has also led senior seminars on such topics as Crises of Modernism, early nineteenth-century literature, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Victorian to Modern literature.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Caen (France), where he gave le cours magistraux d'agrégation on Robert Browning and George Meredith, a master's-level course on Robert Browning, and undergraduate-level courses on Jane Austen, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He also prepared a series of eight radio lectures on Browning and Austen.
Dr. Plotkin's essays and articles include "Ametaphoricity and Presence in Hopkins's Poetics," "Ist es möglich, philosophisch 'modern' zu denken: Der Blick von auen," and "In propria persona: le masque libérateur et carcéral chez Robert Browning." He has translated Jacques Derrida's "Scribble (pouvoir/écrire)" and Georg Lukács' "Die Subjekt-Objekt Beziehung in der Ästhetik." He also writes opera librettos.
He a member of the Board of Scholars of The Hopkins Quarterly.Seleceted Publications:
Soundings: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Hopkins Quarterly Critics, editor (forthcoming).
"Victorian Religious Poetry" in The Columbia History of British Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1994).
The Tenth Muse: Victorian Philology and the Genesis of the Poetic Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989).
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Comparative literature
Nineteenth-century poetry