Professor Alice Craven
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PROFILE Alice Craven joined the Comparative Literature Department in 1989 while working on her dissertation, then left for the United States only to return again in 1994, after completing her degree in Comparative Literature at New York University. While her graduate work concentrated on notions of staging in Baroque tragedy and the relations of those visual strategies to evolving notions of consciousness in seventeenth-century thought, her recent research has been centered on parallel issues in cinema theory, particularly cinema theory of the Surrealist period, where relations between visual and textual expression are of primary concern. Alice teaches in the English Program primarily, in courses ranging from writing-intensive surveys of Western classics, to a course in advanced critical analysis. This course centres on close textual analysis of articles and film documentaries from an interdisciplinary perspective. She has long been interested in interdisciplinary studies, and offers a Summer course on the interdisciplinary nature of the Surrealist movement. She teaches courses in Film Theory at the Institut d' E tudes P olitiques de Paris and at the Parsons School of Design. |
PRINCIPLE PUBLICATIONS 1999 “Reflections on the Status of Literature and Theory at the End of the Millennium through the Works of Brecht and Shakespeare” a paper delivered at the Eighth Quadrennial Comparative Literature Conference of the Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan. 2000 “An Atom in the Univer(city): Feynman and the Apologetics of the Scientist” a paper delivered at the ACLA Conference on Interdisciplinarity, Yale University. 2001 “Who Will the Parisians Woo? The Man (Man Ray) or the Coward (Arthur Cravan)?” a paper delivered at the Americans in Paris: Paris in Americans Conference, Paris France. The perspective on interdisciplinarity here focussed on the cultural aspects of the exchange between disciplines. |
CURRENT COURSES |
College Writing |
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Advanced Critical Analysis and Writing |