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Curriculum Vitae: Naomi Mandel, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Rhode Island
EDUCATION
- University
of California, Irvine English; Critical Theory
Emphasis
Ph.D., 2000
- University of California,
Irvine
English
M.A., 1995
- Tel
Aviv University,
Israel
English
B.A., 1993
- Tel
Aviv University, Israel Music
B.M, 1993
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of English, University of Rhode
Island, August 2000
Associate
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Rhode Island, July
2006
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. (Hardcover and paperback 2006)
Edited Books
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park. Forthcoming from Continuum.
Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Co-edited with Alain-Philippe Durand. London: Continuum, 2006. (paperback 2008).
Edited Journals
Guest Editor, Atrocity, Outrage, and the Ordinary. Special Issue of the Journal of Mundane Behavior 3.3 (2002).
Refereed Articles
"'I made the ink': Identity, Complicity, 60 Million, and more." Modern Fiction Studies 48.3 (2002): 581-613.
"Rethinking 'After Auschwitz: Against a Rhetoric of the Unspeakable in Holocaust Writing.'" boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture 28 (2001): 203-228.
"Speaking Corpses and Spectral Spaces: Representing Testimony After the Holocaust." Dialectical Anthropology 24 (2000): 357-376.
Non-refereed Articles
"To Claim the Mundane." Journal of Mundane Behavior 3.3 (2002): 327-335.
"The
mundane and the limits of the human: thoughts on Hamlet, Roswell, N.M.,
and the Jerry Springer show." Journal of Mundane Behavior 2 (2000):
207-224.
Book Chapters
"Fiction
and Fidelity: Windows on the World." Mattheiu Dalle, trans. In Frédéric
Beigbeder et ses doubles. Alain-Philippe Durand, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 107-126.
"Introduction." With Alain-Philippe Durand. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. London: Continuum, 2006. 1-5.
"'Right
Here in Nowheres': Brett Easton Ellis and Violence's Critique." In
Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. London: Continuum, 2006. 9-19.
Review Essays
"The Contours of Loss: Laura Tanner's Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death." Criticism 50.4 (2008): 663-673.
"Ethics After Auschwitz: The Holocaust in History and Representation." Criticism 45.4 (2003): 509-518.
Book Reviews
Brian
Richardson, Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and
Contemporary Fiction. Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2007):
320-322.
Eng and Kazanjian, eds., Loss: The Politics of Mourning. SubStance 32.3 (2003): 11-15.
Michael Rothberg, Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Cultural Critique 51 (2002): 241-245.
Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Modernism/Modernity 9.2 (2002): 356-358.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Fidelity to Fact or Fiction: Frédéric Beigbeder on Being True." "Literature of 9/11." MLA. December 2009.
"Violent Fidelities." "Epistemologies of Deceit" Plenary Panel. SCLA. October 2009.
"Narrative after the Holocaust and 9/11: On Fiction, Fidelity, and Being True." Narrative. May 2008.
"Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Illuminated, or, Being Nomadic with the Truth."
Louisville Conference on Language and Literature After 1900. February
2008.
"Human
Rights Between Violence and Ethics." NEH Institute: Human Rights in
Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. July 2006
"'Confessions of Nat Turner': The Ethics and Politics of Narrative Closure." Narrative. April 2004.
"'Right Here in Nowheres': The Sick Twisted Ethics of Bret Easton Ellis." ACLA. April 2004.
"'Conceived in Language, Not in Blood': The Specter of the Body in the Modern Nation." ACLA. April 2003.
"Silent politics and politics of silence: trauma and the Holocaust." MLA. Winter 2001.
"The
Game of Who Suffered Most: Limits of Language, Identity Politics, '60
million and more.'" Central New York Conference on Language and
Literature. October 2001
"Ethics, Politics and Identity 'After Auschwitz.'" Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics. Bath, UK. Summer 2001.
"Hiroshima Holocaust." East/West: points of contact. Lycoming College, Williamsport PA. Spring 2001.
"Paul de Man and the Holocaust's Challenge to Theory." Deconstruction Reading Politics. Straffordshire, UK. July 1999.
"Speaking Schindler's List." M/MLA. November 1999.
"After the Unspeakable: Writing Identity After the Holocaust." Works in Progress Seminar. UCI, April 1998.
"Speaking
the Unspeakable: Guilt and Complicity in Writing and Reading the
Holocaust." The Holocaust: its relevance to today's world. Omaha,
Nebraska. April 1998.
"Speaking
Corpses and Spectral Spaces: Representing Testimony After the
Holocaust." Narratives of Crisis. Rutgers University. October 1997.
Invited Lectures
"Studying and Teaching Disability in the Classroom." URI Disability Summit. October 2008.
"On Being Complicit: Resistance, Reference, and Identity after 'Auschwitz.'" SUNY Buffalo State. April 2008.
"In Fidelity: From Being Right to Being True." University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities. April 2008.
Talma Yzraely Lecture: "Fiction and Fidelity: Windows on the World." Tel Aviv University, Israel. March 2007.
"Against the Unspeakable." Ben-Gurion University, Israel. March 2007
"Between Reference and Resistance: Identity 'after Auschwitz.'" Haifa University, Israel. December 2006.
"'And
Not Let Fall': Mourning Jacques Derrida." Jacques Derrida Memorial
Service, Introductory Remarks. University of Rhode Island. October 2004.
"'The
Twin Towers of Auschwitz and Hiroshima': Identity, Complicity and the
Unspeakable." University of Rhode Island Faculty Colloquium. 2004.
"Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, Identity and the Specter of the Holocaust." Tel Aviv University, Israel. April 2003.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2010
Visiting Professor at the Halbert Centre for Canadian
Studies at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
2009 Faculty Development Grant ($4000)
2009 University of Rhode Island, Beaupré Hope and Heritage Fund Grant ($250)
2007 University of Rhode Island, Beaupré Hope and Heritage Fund Grant ($400)
2006 URI Center for the Humanities ($250)
2006 NEH Summer Institute ($3600)
2006 URI Center for the Humanities, David Maron Sabbatical Fellowship ($1700)
2006 University of Rhode Island, Career Enhancement Grant ($5000)
2002 URI Foundation, Capstone Course Development Grant ($1000)
2002 University of Rhode Island, Faculty Development Research Grant ($4500)
2001 URI Marks Fund Travel Grant ($300)
2000 University of California Regents, California President’s Dissertation Fellowship
COURSES TAUGHT
General Education and Introductory Level
- Introduction to Literature (ENG 110)
- Principles of Literary Study (ENG 201)
- Introduction to U.S. Literature after 1865 (ENG 242)
Upper-division Undergraduate
- Literary Theory and Criticism: Violence and Representation (ENG 350)
- History of Literary Theory and Criticism from Plato to the Present (ENG 351)
- Postmodern and Contemporary Literature: Postmodern Constructions of Identity (ENG 378)
- The 20th century Novel (ENG 469)
- U.S. Major Authors: Toni Morrison and William Styron (ENG 485)
Honors Courses
- Violence and the Novel (HPR 412)
- History of Literary Theory and Criticism from Plato to the Present (HPR 319/CLS 351)
- Fictions of Ability and Disability (HPR 411)
- Novels of the Contemporary Extreme (URI Honors Colloquium, coordinated with Alain-Philippe Durand) (HPR 202)
Graduate Courses
- Studies in Critical Theories (ENG 514)
- Contemporary U.S. Responses to War (ENG 545)
- Special Topics: Testimony (ENG 590)
- Toni Morrison, William Styron, and the Politics of Identity (ENG 615)
- Special Topics: Violence (ENG 660)
- Fictions of Extremity (ENG 660)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
April 2008: URI Symposium on Violence and Ethics (coordinated with Alain-Philippe Durand).
February 2008: Panel Organizer, "Extreme Contemporary, Contemporary
Extreme. Louisville Conference on Language and Literature after 1900.
2007-2009: evaluate manuscripts for Rutgers University Press; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Fordham University Press, PMLA
July 2006: Participant, NEH Institute. Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
April 2004. Panel Organizer, "Violence and Ethics." ACLA.
2001-present. Reader for College Literature.
2001-2007. Editorial Board Member, ATQ (American Transcendental Quarterly).
1999-2004. Founding member and editorial board member, The Journal of Mundane Behavior.
1998: Participant, Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory.
University of Rhode Island
2007-2009: Coordinator of English at Feinstein Campus, Providence
2008-present: Executive Committee, URI Center for the Humanities
2008: Director, Comparative Literature Program
2007-present: English Department Executive Committee
2007-2008: English Department Selections Committee
2007-2008: English Department Assessments Committee
2005-present: Honors Program Limited Joint Appointment
2005-present: Disability Resource Mentor
2005: Ad-Hoc Committee for Development of Judaic Studies Program at URI
2001-2005: Teaching Assistant Program Administrator and Supervisor of Literature TAs.
Spring 2004: University of Rhode Island Visualizations Film Festival Division Director (Animation).
2003-2006: Faculty Senate Representative
2003-2006: English Department Graduate Committee
2003-2006: English Department Curriculum Committee
2003-2004: English Department Long Range Planning Committee.
Fall 2003: University College and General Education Committee.
Evaluates and approves applications of individual courses for General
Education status.
Spring 2003: Selections Committee for English Department Chair.
2002-2003: Arts and Literature General Education Sub-Committee.
Developed and defined “Integrated Skills” for Arts and Literature
courses that require General Education status by the University College
and General Education Committee.
2001-2002: English Department Selections committee
2001-2002: English Department Graduate committee
2000-2001: Committee for Undergraduate Recruitment.
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