Charitini Douvaldzi
Charitini Douvaldzi
Assistant Professor of German Studies
Contact:
Building 260, Room 203
Phone: 650 723 0415
Fax: 650 725 8421
douvaldzi@stanford.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Download (right click and "save as")EDUCATION:
2002 Ph.D. Harvard University, Comparative Literature
1994 M.A. University of Munich, Germany, Comparative Literature
Courses
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GERMAN234/334Win2012-13
Life hermeneutics practiced in the psychological novel, Bildungsroman, and autobiography. Intersections and contrasts among these genres. The origins of the notion of progress and its fictional translations; possibilities of historical and fictional closure; and the emergence of the novel's protagonist as a disciplinary subject. Authors include Augustine, Rousseau, Goethe, Moritz, and Keller. Taught in English.
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GERMAN291A/391ASpr2012-13
Texts that provided psychoanalysis with its foundational myths. Oedipus, Moses, and Hamlet as archetypes of the hero related to moments of emerging modernity: from mythos to logos, polytheism to monotheism, and action to thought. The interplay among knowledge, recognition, and desire; the role of sameness and alterity in the constitution of personal, familial, and national identities; violence and the construction of history. Readings include: Exodus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Freud, Cavafy; theoretical essays by Laplanche, Lacan, Certeau, Kofman, Assmann, and Cavell. Taught in English.
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GERMAN121NWin2012-13
As early as the mid-19th century, the French poet Charles Baudelaire saw a new "art of memory" as a main characteristic of modernity. An exploration of the relationship between memory and modernism through an intensive reading of three major narrative texts: Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge," James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and Marcel Proust's "Combray." Taught in English.
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GERMAN134Spr2012-13
This course explores the intersections between literature, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in turn of the century Vienna. Works by Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Bahr, Musil, Roth, Kraus, and Freud; shorter selections from Brentano, Herzl, Kraft-Ebbing, Loos, Mach, and Wittgenstein.
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GERMAN234Win2012-13
Life hermeneutics practiced in the psychological novel, Bildungsroman, and autobiography. Intersections and contrasts among these genres. The origins of the notion of progress and its fictional translations; possibilities of historical and fictional closure; and the emergence of the novel's protagonist as a disciplinary subject. Authors include Augustine, Rousseau, Goethe, Moritz, and Keller.
