Tableau

FALL 2002

VOLUME 4

NUMBER 2

THE NEWSLETTER for the DIVISION of the HUMANITIES

at THE FROM THE DEAN ON CAMPUS 1 DEAR ALUMNI ON CAMPUS 8 AND FRIENDS, 1 Collaborative Ventures Spotlighting the Department of Germanic Studies 8 The Battle for Hearts and Minds utumn has returned thousand miles away, is moving to comple- The 23rd Annual Humanities Open House anew. Excitement tion in a timely fashion. In the Spring issue of and possibility are Tableau, we will provide you with more FACULTY FOCUS A alive everywhere detailed information on this exciting project on campus, partic- which is envisioned not only as a stimulating ularly in the faces of new students who will intellectual environment for our College 4 Acquired Talents quickly join the net- and graduate students New Humanities Faculty works of discussion and from the Humanities 5 Recent Work debate in this commu- and Social Sciences but By Humanities Faculty nity of scholars. The fall also as a University of 11 What Matters To Me and Why quarter is not only a Chicago outpost for our By David Bevington time to look ahead: it is friends and alumni in also a time to reflect on Europe. what has passed. In this I feel certain you will IN MEMORIAM issue of Tableau, we agree that these are honor and thank those exciting moments for who enacted their com- the Division, as major 6 Michael Camille (1958-2002) mitment to the Division humanistic currents be- last year with their gen- gin to assume greater 7 Norman Cutler erous contributions. I substantiality and force. (1949-2002) am also pleased to Your support has helped report on the five new importantly and contin- 6 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT talents that join our faculty ranks this year as ues to do so. In gratefully acknowledging well as on the recent publications of my your interest and your help, I look forward to remarkably productive colleagues. On a sad- keeping you informed on vital developments 10 Luis Leal der note, we continue to grieve for the in the Division. One Life, Two Cultures untimely loss of three members of our com- munity: graduate student Peter Gonzalez and With warm thanks and cordial greetings, faculty members Michael Camille and S TUDENT SPOTLIGHT collaborative Norman Cutler. The last issue of Tableau reported on the 12 Reel Life THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC STUDIES vibrancy of the creative and performing arts JANEL MUELLER Behind the Screen With Student Filmmakers on campus and our plans to incorporate this ventures vitality more centrally into the life of the Janel Mueller is Professor of English and of the Division. I am delighted to be able to report Humanities and William Rainey Harper Professor to you some significant progress in the area. in the College. She has been teaching at Chicago IT IS OFTEN ASSUMED that the philosopher writing in his Over the summer, the President and Provost since 1967. Her publications include The Native formally approved funding for a program- Tongue and the Word: Developments in English office has more interaction with his philosophical colleague hundreds ming and planning study, co-chaired by Prose Style (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Associate Provost Mary Harvey (Ph.D. ’87) and The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s of miles away than with the anthropologist who is at work in her office Urania, edited with Suzanne Gossett (Renaissance me, whose objective, under the auspices of a across the quad. This belief about academic exchange runs counter to committee, is to program and prepare for a English Text Society, 1999), and Elizabeth I: proposed Center for the Creative and Per- Collected Works, edited with Leah Marcus and the special enthusiasm attached to interdisciplinary endeavors. forming Arts. This study will be important in Mary Beth Rose (University of Chicago Press, advancing our vision of a thriving Center in 2000). She was awarded the University of Interdisciplinary work does not occur in a vacuum or, even, in the energetic mind of a single author. While and around the current site of Midway Studios. Chicago Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in June 1998. one could say this about scholarly work generally, interdisciplinary work is especially nurtured by collab- As we begin preparatory efforts for this WILLIAM ORCHARD

Center on campus, another Center, the BY orating minds that converge from different vantage points. >>> University of Chicago’s Paris Center, three 14 2 ALUMNION CAMPUS AFFAIRS ALUMNION AFFIARSCAMPUS 3

The University of Chicago has a distinguished James Conant, Michael Forster, John Hauge- York and Chicago last spring have helped Beuys. Supported by a generous grant from ship are located in departments other than industries and to help rebuild the nation. history of sustaining such collaborations. At land, Charles Larmore, Jonathan Lear, and the bring the edition to the attention of German- the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the exhi- Germanic Studies, but that fact is indicative of Beginning in the early 1960s, Turkish immi- an early phase, graduate students are inducted newly-arrived Michael Kremer. In its inaugural icists on both sides of the Atlantic. Praising the bition will engage several critical themes, the far reach and truly interdisciplinary nature grants responded in significant numbers to into interdisciplinary conversations through year, the Center sponsored several colloquia panoramic survey of German-language letters including the relation of myth to German of Germanic Studies on campus. this call for “guest workers.” In 1973, the their participation in workshops. On a larger and workshops on such topics as eighteenth- that the issue brings into focus, the Frankfurter identity, the place of war and urban tumult in Testament to this interdisciplinary depth is recruitment of immigrant workers ended. It scale, collaborations between researchers and century literature, the practice of narrative, Allgemeine Zeitung declared that “now, for a shifting national consciousness, and the the number of faculty from diverse depart- was assumed that guest workers would even- other campus institutions provide our schol- the work of philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, the first time, interested readers have the question of how, in a contemporary context, a ments who have been awarded important tually return to their country of origin, after arly work greater visibility by opening it to and the poetics of Paul Celan. The Center has opportunity to get to know the diversity of German art might look. fellowships and visiting appointments at giving their best years to German industry. larger publics. This fall, graduate students and also provided both support and momentum contemporary German literature.” Heller’s work on the exhibition will be aug- premier German institutions. Among those However, many of the original guest workers faculty in the Department of Germanic Studies for the three autumn projects that occasioned A ten-week series to be screened at Doc mented by a course on resistance to abstrac- receiving notice in the past academic year is now have grandchildren who have been edu- have joined efforts with three campus organi- this article. Films, the nation’s oldest student film society, tion in contemporary German art taught by Joel Snyder, Professor in the Department of cated in Germany, speak fluent German, and zations to produce a volume of contemporary also aims to present a more complex view of Nina Zimmer, a German art historian and the work for German companies. In a one-day German-language writing, a series of post-war German culture, focusing on the post-war autumn quarter Bosch Visiting Professor. spring colloquium co-organized by Hakan German films, and an exhibit of German art. period from 1946 to 1979. Programmed by (Zimmer’s class is doubly timely given the Art Özoglu, Ayasli Lecturer in Turkish Language The happy simultaneity of these projects Germanic Studies graduate student James Institute’s current glorious retrospective of the in the Department of Near Eastern Languages provides a fitting occasion to highlight some Cantarella, “Post-War German Cinema and work of German painter Gerhard Richter.) and Civilizations, and Germanic Studies grad- of the recent developments in Germanic Identity” begins with Wolfgang Staudte’s The Funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and uate student Darren Ilett (AM ’01), an inter- Studies, a department whose collaborative Murderers Are Among Us (1946), the first film supported with matching funds from the national array of scholars will consider the ventures are one key to its vitality. produced in Germany after World War II. The Humanities Division and the Office of the social and political aspects of the situation as An exciting recent development that has series consists of films from both East and Provost, the Bosch Fellows Program permits well as its cultural effects. served to foster collaboration is David West Germany and includes works by such the Department of Germanic Studies to invite In addition to the fall film series and art Wellbery’s appointment to the new Leroy T. established talents as Alexander Kluge and R. three visiting professors each year, each for exhibit, which will run and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson Univer- W. Fassbinder as well as less familiar works a ten-week quarter. The Bosch Visiting Pro- through the end of the year, dr eyeye dr sity Professorship. University Professorships from the GDR that were virtually inaccessible fessors are recruited from Germany, Switzer- alumni and friends of the GERHARD FALKNER are the highest distinction offered to faculty before German reunification. The East German land, and Austria and teach two courses in Humanities Division can new to the University and are bestowed upon films, made available by the Deutsche Film- Germanic Studies: one graduate and one under- also hear more about the shavings of light internationally notable scholars. Upon arrival, Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library at the graduate. Each course is taught in the Fellow’s research and activities of the planed out of the metal railing Wellbery also assumed the directorship of the University of Massachusetts, afford an oppor- specialty and in the German language. The Department of Germanic newly-formed Center for Interdisciplinary tunity to view everyday life behind the Iron Bosch Visiting Professors supplement intellec- Studies at the 23rd Annual classic swarf form with red-shot painfully “The Center [for Interdisciplinary Research in German Literature and Culture] is poised to become a major focal point of intel- Testament to this interdisciplinary depth is the number of faculty from diverse departments who have sawn ridge lectual culture pertaining to things German not only at the University of Chicago but in the city of Chicago, more generally.” been awarded important fellowships and visiting appointments at premier German institutions. beneath it spattered syllables tossed into the shadow Research in German Literature and Culture. The first of the autumn activities high- Curtain as depicted by the state-run film com- tual life by enhancing student knowledge of Art History, who was a Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Open House spoken into ash As Eric Santner, Chair of the Department of lighting Germanic Studies is the Chicago pany, while the series as a whole documents a the methodologies used by German scholars, Max Planck Institute for the History of (see page 8). Samuel Jaffe Germanic Studies, and Harriet and Ulrich E. Review’s special double issue on “New Writing nation’s attempts, after a massive collapse of exposing students to the rapidly changing Science in Berlin and participated in an inter- will provide a history the winter fly Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish in German.” Edited by graduate students its sense of identity, to emphasize the impor- professional vocabulary used in Germanic disciplinary research group on “The Common of Germanic humanistic launches from the back History, notes,“The Center is poised to become Anna Gisbertz, Bill Martin, and Eirik Steinhoff tance of belonging to a place and to refashion Studies, and providing students and faculty Languages of Art.” Berthold Hoeckner, Assoc- opposition to totalitarian- of your hand a major focal point of intellectual culture per- (AM ’99), “New Writing in German” focuses its self-image. The film series is supported with an expanded intellectual network. iate Professor in the Department of Music, was ism from the annals of the like an interceptor craft taining to things German not only at the on the upsurge in German-language literary by the Goethe Institut and the Smart Museum The last-mentioned aspect of the program awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Found- Department of Germanic University of Chicago but in the city of Chicago, production that has occurred since 1989. As of Art. already appears to be producing strong results. ation Research Fellowship, a highly prestigious Studies; Andreas Gailus will Trans. by Andrew Duncan more generally.”Santner serves on the Center’s the editors explain in their introduction, the The Smart Museum will host an exhibition Last year, philosopher Gary Smith, the Executive award for which one must be nominated examine representations of advisory board with Robert Pippin, Raymond end of the Cold War, political developments in this autumn that engages the same concerns as Director of the American Academy in Berlin, before one’s fortieth birthday. Under the aus- sibling incest in eighteenth-century German W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Switzerland and Austria, Berlin’s cultural revi- the film series, though over a much longer was one of the year’s three Bosch Fellows. pices of the German Academic Exchange literature; Reinhold Heller will lead a tour of the Service Professor in the Committee on Social talization, and the globalization of publishing period of two centuries. Curated by Reinhold The American Academy in Berlin, like the Service (DAAD) and the Bradenburg Gate “Confronting Identities” exhibit at the Smart Thought and the Department of Philosophy. have combined to quicken the pulse of the Heller, Professor in the Departments of Art Bosch Fellows Program, aims to bring together Foundation, Barbara Stafford, William B. Odgen Museum; Peter Jansen will speak on the lim- The inclusion of Pippin, a philosopher, on the German cultural scene. The 354-page issue History and Germanic Studies, the exhibit, scholars and creative artists from the United Distinguished Service Professor in the Depart- its of translation; Herman Sinaiko will guide advisory board signals one of the defining fea- presents the work of over 50 German-language “Confronting Identities in German Art: States and Germany. University of Chicago ment of Art History, was appointed the Rudolf us through the introduction to Nietzsche’s tures of Germanic Studies at the University of poets and fiction writers in English transla- Myths, Reactions, Reflections,” will feature faculty members are becoming familiar figures Arnheim Professor in the Berliner Kuenstler- The Birth of Tragedy; and Jerrold Sadock will Chicago: its insistence in seeing the connect- tion, many of them for the first time. The col- painting, works on paper, sculpture, books, at the American Academy. W. J. T. Mitchell, programm in Spring 2002. explore the surprising similarities and differ- edness of German literary and philosophic lection includes poets Ulrike Draesner, Durs and posters ranging from mid-nineteenth- Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Closer to home, another upcoming event ences between ebonics and Goethe’s Yiddish. texts. In this emphasis, our already strong Grünbein, Gerhard Falkner, and Friederike century prints to the abstract painting and Professor of English and Art History, recently highlights the interdisciplinary range of faculty in Germanic Studies is enhanced by Mayröcker and prose writers Jenny Erpenbeck, collages of renowned contemporary artist spent a term as a Berlin Fellow and, this year, Germanic Studies, bringing Germanicists Above left: Christian Schad, Portrait of Baronessa Vera the expertise in German philosophy demon- Judith Hermann, Ingo Schulze, and Feridun Anselm Kiefer. Among the many artists repre- Thomas Christensen, Professor in the Depart- together with the Center for Middle Eastern strated by several members in the Philosophy Zaimoglu. Advance preview readings to over- sented in the exhibit are Max Beckmann, Wassilko, 1926, Private Collection, Chicago. ment of Music, will follow suit. It may come as Studies. After World War II, the West German Above right: Conrad Felixmuller, In the Studio, Depressed, Department—including Daniel Brudney, flow audiences at the Goethe Institut in New George Grosz, Max Pechstein, and Joseph a surprise that the two holders of this fellow- government invited immigrants to work in its 1917, Smart Museum, Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection. 4 FACULTY FOCUS FACULTY FOCUS 5

DANIELA HRISTOVA (Ph.D. University of VALERIE RITTER (Ph.D. University of Wash- Chicago, 2002), Assistant Professor of Slavic ington, 2001), Assistant Professor of Hindi in the Languages and Literatures, recently completed Department of South Asian Languages and her dissertation, Grammatical Function and Syn- Civilizations, comes to Chicago from the Uni- tactic Structure: The Participles in the Kievan versity of Virginia, where she held the position of { NEW HUMANITIES FACULTY } Chronicle. Her interests include the history and Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian structure of east and west Slavic languages, and Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Russian syntax and discourse grammar, and lan- Her interests include poetic meters in Indic lan- guage pedagogy and technology. She has taught at guages, medieval devotional and courtly poetry in the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and won awards Braj Bhasa, Hindi prose literature of the Dwivedi and grants from the Harvard University TAHERA QUTBUDDIN (Ph.D. Harvard Univer- era (1893–1919), and the history of social service talents Ukrainian Research Institute. Hristova is also the sity, 1999), Assistant Professor of Arabic in the organizations in North India (1890–1930). Her founder and co-director of Obsˇtestvo Aleko, a Department of Near Eastern Languages and dissertation, Useful Absences and the Nature of the acquired non-profit organization dedicated to publishing Civilizations, comes to Chicago from the Univer- Modern: Hariaudh (1865–1947), His Priyapravas ANASTASIA GIANNAKIDOU (Ph.D. University of Groningen, American authors in Bulgaria, and Bulgarian sity of Utah, where she held the rank of Assistant (1914), and Hindi Poetry,examines the linguistic 1997), Assistant Professor of Linguistics, has spent the last year at authors in the United States. Professor in the Department of Languages and and canonical agenda of the poet Hariaudh as Chicago as a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching undergraduate and Literature. Prior to her appointment at Utah, expressed in Priyapravas, the first epic-length graduate courses in semantics, tense and aspect, and pragmatics. Her Qutbuddin was a Visiting Assistant Professor in poem written in modern Hindi. dissertation, The Landscape of Polarity Items,examines the affective MICHAEL KREMER (Ph.D. University of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and contexts of polarity items (expressions which are grammatical only in Pittsburgh, 1986), Professor of Philosophy, comes Civilizations at Yale University. Her interests sentences exemplifying a particular semantic characteristic). She has to Chicago from the University of Notre Dame, include classical Arabic language and literature, continued her investigation of polarity items in a book, Polarity where he has taught since 1986. His primary Fatimid and Islamic studies, and Islamic law. Her Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency (John Benjamins, 1998) interests are in logic, the philosophy of language, dissertation, Al-Mu’ayyad fı¯ al-Dı¯n al-Shı¯razı¯: and in a recent article in Linguistics and Philosophy.Her interests and analytic philosophy. He has published widely Founder of a New Tradition of Fatimid Da‘wa include pragmatics, the philosophy of language, semantics, the syntax- on logic, Frege, and Wittgenstein, about whom Poetry, argues that the eleventh-century Persian semantics interface, and Greek linguistics. Giannakidou was a Fellow Kremer is completing a monograph under the Fatimid chief missionary al-Mu’ayyad inaugu- of the Dutch Academy of Science at the University of Groningen and working title Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: Nonsense, rated a new tradition of da‘wa poetry that altered a Grotius Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Logic, Language, Logic, Ethics and Life.He is a former associate edi- the course of Fatimid letters. Qutbuddin also and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. She has also tor and present member of the editorial board of serves on the editorial board of the Harvard taught at the University of Cyprus. the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Middle Eastern and Islamic Review.

BY HUMANITIES FACULTY recent work Aronson, Howard and Dodona Christensen, Thomas, ed. Hoeckner, Berthold. Lear, Jonathan. Happiness, Robertson, Anne Walters. Kiziria. Georgian Language The Cambridge History of Programming the Absolute: Death, and the Remainder Guillaume de Machaut and and Culture: A Continuing Western Music Theory Nineteenth-Century German of Life (Harvard UP, 2001). Reims: Context and Meaning DEBORAH NELSON work of such poets as Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Course (Slavica, 1999). (Cambridge UP, 2002). Music and the Hermeneutics in His Musical Works Makdisi, Saree. William Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America W.D. Snodgrass and Sylvia Plath alongside such land- of the Moment (Princeton (Cambridge UP, 2002). Bevington, David, ed. Davidson, Arnold I. The UP, 2002). Blake and the Impossible (New York: Columbia UP, 2002). mark decisions as Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe The Necessary Shakespeare Emergence of Sexuality: History of the 1790s (U of Rothfield, Lawrence, ed. v. Wade, Nelson conducts a rhetorical analysis of (Longman, 2001). Historical Epistemology and Huttenlocher, Janellen and Chicago P, 2002). Unsettling Sensation: s privacy dead? Deborah Nelson, Assistant privacy as a concept central to postwar America´s the Formation of Concepts Nora S. Newcombe. Making Arts-Policy Lessons from Bevington, David. (Harvard UP, 2002). Space: The Development of Nelson, Deborah. Pursuing the Brooklyn Museum Art Professor in the Department of English, examines self-definition and the contradictions inherent in Shakespeare: An Introduction Spatial Representation and Privacy in Cold War America Controversy (Rutgers UP, Ithe anxiety that this now-familiar question pro- Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the move (Blackwell, 2002). Forster, Michael N., ed. Reasoning (MIT P, 2000). (Columbia UP, 2002). 2001). duced in postwar America as it surfaced repeatedly toward confession in American poetry and the desire Herder: Philosophical Camille, Michael. Image on Writings (Cambridge Texts in Inden, Ronald B. Imagining Povinelli, Elizabeth. The Scodel, Joshua. Excess and across a wide social, cultural and political spectrum. to secure privacy as a constitutional right were not, the Edge: The Margins of the History of Philosophy) India (Indiana UP, 2001). Cunning of Recognition: the Mean in Early Modern Stern, Richard G. What Is Her focal points are confessional poetry and the doc- however, simply manifestations of anxiety about Medieval Art (Reaktion (Cambridge UP, 2002). Indigenous Alterities and English Literature What Was (U of Chicago P, trine of constitutional privacy, bodies of discourse “the death of privacy.” The declarations of the Books, 2001). Kapstein, Matthew T. The the Making of Australian (Princeton UP, 2002). 2002). Hall, Jonathan. Hellenicity: Tibetan Assimilation of Multiculturalism (Duke UP, which both emerged during the late 1950s as broad Supreme Court and the revelations of confessional Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Between Ethnicity and Culture Buddhism: Conversion, 2002). Stafford, Barbara and Frances Stern, Richard G. Pacific cultural changes aroused panic about privacy, includ- poetry redefined the nature of privacy itself, creating Habitations of Modernity: (U of Chicago P, 2002). Contestation, and Memory Terpak. Devices of Wonder: Tremors (Triquarterly, 1999). Essays in the Wake of (Oxford UP, 2002). Richards, Robert J. The From the World in a Box to ing McCarthyism, suburban expansion, the popularity language which allowed Americans to imagine them- Tsivian, Yuri. Ivan the Subaltern Studies (U of Romantic Conception of an Image on a Screen (Getty of psychoanalysis, the rise of television, and the selves as citizens whose privacy could be obtained Terrible: BFI Film Classics Chicago P, 2002). Life: Science and Philosophy Center, 2001). arrival of the computer database. Reading the or conserved through acts of public disclosure. —SG in the Age of Goethe (U of (BFI, 2002). Chicago P, 2002). 6 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM 7

IT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN THIS WAY. A scholar’s life should not close in the summer of his career, when the Division mourned the passing of two of its bright talents, Michael Camille and Norman Cutler. Both were scholars the early labors of research are beginning to flower in both publications and classroom. When this loss is incurred in the saluted by their colleagues for their energetic minds, admired by students for their commitment and passion to teach- course of term, the life of the Division is unsettled. Grief is compounded by the knowledge of mortality’s random hand. ing, and respected by all for their kindness and integrity. Below we pay brief tribute to each of these esteemed friends. We learn that, as the poet Donne notes, any man’s death diminishes us. But these were not just any men. This spring, For information on the memorial funds that have been established for both, please contact Tableau. in memoriam

An art historian whose eye, intellect and humor Cambridge in 1985, after which he joined the Norman Cutler, a scholar of Tamil poetry and reli- nearly 2,000 years of tradition outside of Sanskrit, helped open the Middle Ages to new perspec- faculty of the University of Chicago. His first gion who was as much respected for his dedica- resulted in Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil tives, Michael Camille died on April 29, 2002 of a book was The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image- tion to teaching as for his mastery of South Indian Devotion (1987). Ronald Inden, Professor of brain tumor. He was 44. Making in Medieval Art (1989). His next volume, literature, died February 26, 2002. He was 53. History and of South Asian Languages and Trained at Cambridge in the traditional disci- Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art According to Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Civilizations, said that “very little of that literature MICHAEL pline of medieval art history, Camille studied (1992) communicated one of Camille’s essential NORMAN Eliade Professor in the Divinity School, South had been made available to a non-Tamil audience medieval image-making from playful marginal insights: that “the art of the Middle Ages was not Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the until [Cutler] came along. He was really almost CAMILLE illuminations to the carvings of grand cathedrals. a somber expression of social unity and tran- CUTLER College, Cutler “broke out of the old Orientalist alone in bringing this very rich body of devotional From these details he learned that the neat scendent order. Rather, it was rooted in the con- view of old India being good and new India literature to the academic world’s attention.” separation of “high” and “low” culture, of word flicted life of the body with all its somatic as well being bad and uninteresting. Along with A. K. Translation and language teaching, the most 1958-2002 and image, are modern artifacts. He was recog- as spiritual possibilities.” Camille’s other books 1949-2002 Ramanujan and Edward Dimock, Norman had concrete ways of making a foreign culture avail- nized by his colleagues for his ability to use art to include: Glorious Visions: Gothic Art (1996), the idea that there was great literature in vernacu- able to people, were central to Cutler’s work. With illuminate both medieval and modern life, some- Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, lar languages. They also showed that Tamil was Paula Richman of Oberlin College, he edited A thing he achieved repeatedly in the course of an Illustrator (1996), The Medieval Art of Love (1997), not only a contemporary language but a classical Gift of Tamil (1992), a collection of literature that abundantly productive career at the University and Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and language as well, and expanded people’s narrow conveys the beauty, sense of humor, and piety of of Chicago. the Making of Medieval England (1998). ideas of what classical India was.”Doniger empha- Tamil civilization. His translations were praised Linda Seidel, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor Camille was the recipient of numerous acco- sized Cutler’s genuine commitment to teaching: by his colleagues as poetic and clear models of and Chair of the Department of Art History, lades, including a 1988 Fellowship from the “He cared for students more than anyone I’ve ever accuracy. explained Camille’s ability to engage people: Getty Foundation, a National Endowment for known.” As Sheldon Pollock, the George V. Bobrinskoy “[His work was] never merely intellectual; there the Humanities Fellowship at the Wissenschafts- Born May 10, 1949, in Silver Spring, Mary- Professor in South Asian Languages and was always this spontaneous emotional connec- kolleg in Berlin, and a 2000–2001 Guggenheim land, Cutler earned his bachelor’s degree at the Civilizations, noted, Cutler’s work on literature tion. He would always find something in his sub- Fellowship. He sat on the Board of the University University of Michigan and, aided by support was complemented by his later work on the great ject to recognize, and then make it familiar to of Chicago Press from 1993 to 1997, helped from the American Institute of Indian Studies and commentarial traditions of Tamil. Culter’s essay everybody else.” found the Lesbian and Gay Studies project at the a National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, on these traditions, “Three Moments in the Born March 6, 1958 in Yorkshire, England, University, and served on the task force on earned his master’s degree at the University of Genealogy of Tamil Literary Culture,” will appear Camille attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge, undergraduate education. Washington. He did his doctoral work at Chicago, later this year in Literary Cultures in History: graduating with first-class honors in Art History He is survived by his parents, his sister where he spent the rest of his career. Reconstructions from South Asia,a collection and English in 1980. Camille went on to earn an Michelle, and his companion of 16 years, Stuart Cutler’s major work in Tamil, opening up an edited by Pollock. —SLS M.A. in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Art History at Michaels. —SLS India that does not speak Hindi and looks back to

“ HIS WORK WAS NEVER merely intellectual; there was always this “ VERY LITTLE OF THAT LITERATURE had been made spontaneous emotional connection. He would always find something in his subject to rec- available.... [Cutler] was really almost alone in bringing this very rich body of devotional ognize, and then make it familiar to everybody else.” literature to the academic world’s attention.” 8 ON CAMPUS ON CAMPUS 9

MILES OF CLAY: INFORMATION

THE BATTLE FOR MANAGEMENT IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST THEO VAN DEN HOUT Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations World powers of the Ancient Near East had formidable bureaucracies, amassing and processing huge amounts of clay tablets and FOR THE LAST TWENTY-THREE YEARS other documents. What do we know about their systems of information management? on the final Saturday of October, the How did the ancient archivist or librarian find Humanities Division has invited alumni, his way through them? What did they keep friends, students, parents, and neighbors and for how long? What did they throw out to take part in this vitality by attending and when? Are the collections we have the annual Humanities Open House, archives or are they libraries? In what ways were the tablets sorted? Such and other THE PERSISTENT PUPPET: a day-long series of over forty lectures, questions will be discussed by Theo van den PINOCCHIO’S HEIRS IN hearts performances, exhibits, and tours. Hout in this lecture, which emphasizes the CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND FILM Humanities Open House was founded Hittite Empire in Ancient Anatolia/Turkey REBECCA WEST in 1980 by Edward (“Ned”) Rosenheim, (c. 1650–1180 BC). Professor of Italian in the Department David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Emeritus in the Department of English, and then Dean Karl Director, Center for Gender Studies and minds Weintraub, Thomas E. Donnelley Distinguished Service Carlo Lorenzini (pen name Collodi) Achy Obejas and Karen Volk- Professor Emeritus in History. The idea was simple: open the created the puppet who longed to be a man; tours of the Oriental boy more than a century ago, yet AUTUMN IS AN ATTENUATING SEASON. Crisp, green leaves turn into distinctive reds, yellows, doors of the Division to the public and share with them the Institute, Smart Museum, Pinocchio has lived on in both popular work done here by the faculty. Open House has also provided and Robie House; and a per- culture and in literary and filmic versions and browns before falling from tree limbs and covering the surrounding earth. The warm breezes of late alumni the opportunity to return to campus and hear pre- of the tale. One of the most read books in formance by the Motet Choir sentations by familiar figures such as Rosenheim, Gwin Kolb, the world, The Adventures of Pinocchio summer transform into cooler gusts that usher winter on its way. Night’s encroachment on afternoon pro- in the grand nave of Rocke- and David Bevington as well as by newer faculty members. was originally written in serial form for an feller Chapel. ceeds at increasingly earlier hours. Yet, wrapped in this encompassing feeling of decline is one of promise. Italian children’s magazine, and Collodi HERE, WE PREVIEW THREE OF THE OVER forty presentations Each year, Humanities killed off the puppet in what he thought was the last episode—until, that is, he that will occur at this year’s Humanities Open House. Other Open House is anchored by a As Percy Bysshe Shelley notes: “there is a harmony in / autumn, and a lustre in its sky, / Which through was urged by his editor to continue the keynote address. This year’s presentations include: Dean Janel Mueller speaking on the already very popular story. Why is this the summer is not heard or seen / As if it could not be, as if it had not ORTHODOX MODERNISM: prayers—personal and public—composed by Queen Eliza- keynote, “Plato on the Battle story so enduring? How have writers and MAKING SENSE OF RUSSIAN RELIGIOUS beth I of England; Franke Institute Director James K. Chandler for Hearts and Minds,” will filmmakers reworked the original tale? been!” Such harmonic optimism infuses college campuses in the fall as PHILOSOPHY on the films of John Sayles and Haskell Wexler; Linguistics be delivered by Jonathan What can we expect from Roberto Benigni’s students, new and old, arrive on campus with the energy of the famil- ROBERT BIRD Professor Michael Silverstein on genetics and language; Lear, the John U. Nef Profes- forthcoming version for the screen? Is Assistant Professor of Russian Literature Pinocchio Italy’s most genuine national Philosophy Professor Ted Cohen on humor in the humani- sor in the Department of in the Department of Slavic Languages emblem? Lastly, what does this tale say Philosophy, the Committee iar squirrels that dash from tree to tree. Autumn in our gothic and Literatures ties; Michael Murrin of the Department of Comparative to us today about questions of identity, Literature on Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and the Silk Road; on Social Thought, and in Quadrangles pulsates with possibility: thoughts of books yet to be The most famous Russian philosophers, out- class, and gender? side of Marxism, form a tradition of religious Philosophy Professor Martha Nussbaum on compassion and the College. Trained as both a read, dreams of arguments yet to be made, and the deep confidence thought that has had an ambivalent relation- the limits of patriotism; readings by award-winning writers philosopher and a psychoanalyst, Lear has been instrumental ship with both mainstream secular culture in recuperating Freud’s reputation as a philosopher. His that something fresh and previously unknown will be encountered. and mainstream Russian orthodoxy. Robert books include Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Bird will examine the work of Vladimir Full descriptions of the Humanities Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis (1990); Open Minded:

Solovyov, one of the most systematic of all THE 23RD ANNUAL HUMANITIES OPEN HOUSE Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1998); and Happiness, Russian philosophers, and Nikolai Berdyaev, Open House presentations and registration a religious existentialist. He will consider why Death, and the Remainder of Life (2000). In his keynote information are available online at such thinkers as Solovyov and Berdyaev do address, Lear will consider how Plato’s interests in the role not fit neatly into the standard accounts of http://humanities.uchicago.edu/openhouse myths play in structuring the psyche are relevant to our Russian culture and how we can approach or by calling (773) 702-3175. contemporary concerns about the developing outlooks of them today. today’s children. Alumni from around the country are cordially invited to

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I didn’t find Shakespeare. He Elizabethan dramas changed my whole Instead, I wrote a dissertation on the THOSE WHO KNOW LUIS LEAL (AM ’41, Ph.D. ’50) will invariably prefix “Don” to his name, a form of honorable address that WHAT found me. As an undergraduate life. The course was about theatre. I found drama before Shakespeare, got a job teach- I studied English history and out something about myself that I still ing in the Renaissance, taught all parts of feels more than a little anachronistic in today’s academic climate. Yet, the formal and reverential mode of address seems MATTERS literature, and loved the whole don’t fully understand: that I am happier that field from intellectual prose to lyric TO ME panorama of it: the distilla- working on drama than on any other and epic poetry and fiction, and then entirely fitting for a man who, in a long and distinguished career, pioneered two fields of literary study, wrote over thirty books tion of so much cultural, social, genre. I don’t direct plays, I would be no inherited a Shakespeare course from a pro- & WHY intellectual, and political history good as an actor and have no interest in fessor who retired from the faculty at the and 250 articles, and continues, in his nineties, to teach two courses per year. Two recent books—Mario T. García’s Luis Leal: An of a great nation into its literary that. At the same time, my interest in plays University of Virginia. This is when I really manifestations. I loved too the ways is as performances in the theater. When I learned what to love and why. I learned this Auto/ Biography (University of Texas Press, 2000) and Victor Fuentes’s Don Luis in which music, the visual and plastic came to Chicago I became friends with from teaching Shakespeare to graduates arts, the history of science, of philosophy, Nick Rudall and was with him at the birth and undergraduates. I was also privileged Leal: una vida y dos culturas (Bilingual Press, 1998)—examine Leal’s life and work. of religion, all coalesced into a grand archi- of Court Theatre in the early 1970s. That to be asked to edit his works. From such tectural pattern of medieval, Renaissance, theater, and Nick’s inspired direction, have immersion in his texts I discovered what it Baroque, Age of Enlightenment, Romanti- been my continuing education in the is that I have come to care about most: his Born in Linares in Northern prominence in the 1960s, figures like Jorge Luis Borges, cism, all of it with such astonishing coherence theater of Western Civilization, from incredibly rich humanity, his involvement Mexico, Leal came to the United , Gabriel García Marquez, and Octavio States to pursue his post-sec- Paz (some of whom are Leal’s acquaintances). ondary education, earning a Leal turned 68 in 1976 and was forced to comply bachelor’s degree at Northwest- with the University of Illinois’s mandatory retirement ern University before enrolling policy. Retirement has been far from leisurely for Leal. in the graduate program in In his later years at UIUC, he presented one of the first david bevington Romance Languages and Litera- papers on Mexican-American literature and became, tures at the University of Chicago. with the folklorist Américo Paredes of the University of “As my friend and colleague Joe Williams said to me, at Like many in the United States Texas, one of the architects of the field now known as before the rise of the Latin Chicano Studies. When he retired, Leal moved to the a cocktail party, ‘Can you imagine anything nicer than luis American “boom” writers, the University of California at Santa Barbara and accepted teaching Shakespeare and actually being paid for it?’ University of Chicago’s Spanish an appointment as a Research Fellow at their Center program was focused on penin- for Chicano Studies. Although he has held visiting It’s hard work, but somebody’s got to do the job.” sular literature, especially the professorships at such schools as UCLA and Stanford, literature of Spain’s Golden he has maintained his strong affiliation with UCSB that one could listen to a musical compo- Age. Leal, born on the eve of where he continues to teach two courses per year in sition, for example, and know that it just the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the Department of Chicano Studies. The University had to be Baroque or early classical; that remained committed to the of California established the Luis Leal Endowed Chair the Sublime was newly rediscovered in investigation of Mexican litera- in Chicano Studies in his honor in 1995, the only such the late eighteenth century; and so on. ture, completing a master’s thesis endowed chair in the United States. I am sure my grasp of this was jejune and on Amado Nervo, the Mexican Luis Leal’s work in the field of Mexican and oversimplified, but I stood in awe of the

leal modernista poet. Leal’s disserta- Chicano literature has been recognized by a number of comprehensive nature of the history of tion considered the origins of the Mexican cuento organizations. Mexico honored him with induction civilization. I did not, however, take any (short story) through an examination of the fictional into the Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca, the highest courses in Shakespeare. He seemed to me elements in chronicles written by Spaniards after the award it can bestow on a foreigner. Other recipients better than the instruction in him that was Aeschylus down to Tom Stoppard. Nick David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished conquest of the Aztec empire. of the Aguila Azteca award include farm activist available at the time, and so I preferred to and I teach a course in the history and Service Professor in the Humanities. The Renaissance Leal taught at Chicago for three years before accept- César Chávez, historian Hugh Thomas, and playwright read him on my own—as I did also with theory of this drama that gives me daily Society of America recently honored Bevington with its ing a tenured position at the University of Mississippi Luis Valdez. Leal received the National Humanities Fielding, Dickens, Yeats, Forster, Faulkner. opportunity to talk with a friend and Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award, at Oxford. After a short stay in Mississippi, he moved Medal from President Clinton in 1997 in the company One does not have to take a course to savor colleague who understands theater inside marking the first time that award was presented to a to and then finally set- of three others with strong University the greatness of such writers. out, so that the play texts, no longer simply scholar in English literature tled at the University of Illinois at of Chicago connections: University I am fascinated to learn, from reading a literary, are part of a living theatrical expe- Urbana-Champaign, where he spent Trustee Richard Franke; Divinity similar piece in an earlier issue of Tableau, rience. I also have taught Greek Thought in every human experience from falling in that Philip Gossett never took a course in and Literature for over thirty years in a love to jealousy, skepticism, disillusion- over seventeen years. At UIUC, he con- School Professor Martin Marty (Ph.D. which Italian opera was highlighted. Is this great humanities core course at the Univer- ment, and eventually to ageing and retire- tinued his researches into the Mexican ’56); and oral historian Studs Terkel how we discover what matters to us most, sity of Chicago, where I have had the yearly ment, all portrayed with his incomparable short story and turned his eye to the (Ph.B. ’32, JD ’34). Leal’s papers are on our own? When I had served three experience of teaching Aeschylus, Sophocles, wealth of images and his insight into the novel of the Mexican Revolution, archived in the Special Collections of years in the U. S. Navy and then went to Euripides, and Aristophanes, along with human condition. authoring important monographs on Stanford University’s Green Library. graduate school, I had an idea I might Homer, Thucydides, and Herodotus. As my friend and colleague Joe two of its principal writers, Manuel want to study the Victorian period. These classical texts, and the whole of Williams said to me, at a cocktail party, Azuela and . He also began Instead, I got to know Alfred Harbage, who western drama, are materials that for the “Can you imagine anything nicer than writing about many of the Latin Ameri- IN HIS OWN WORDS had come to Harvard while I was away on most part I have never studied as a student teaching Shakespeare and actually being can boom writers who were coming into military service. During my MA year, the in a class; nor did I take a course in paid for it?” It’s hard work, but somebody’s ONE LIFE, TWO CULTURES course I took with him in the staging of Shakespeare during my graduate years got to do the job. 12 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 13

A CAMERA SURVEYS THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE, yielding The recent appointments of video artists Helen Eneva and Kristiva Nikolova received a grant a run of images of the expanses of grass before Mirra and Alison Ruttan to the Committee on to complete “The Glass House Project,” a DVD arching up and catching a glimpse of the build- the Visual Arts represent a step forward in pro- realization of Russian director Sergei Eisenstein’s ings that line its northern border. The soaring, viding students with more opportunities to idea to make a film in an all-glass apartment dizzying images appear in Glider,a film made by learn the technical aspects of filmmaking. building. Douglas Baird, Harry Bigelow attaching a Super-8 camera to a gigantic kite that Many students, like Askari, come to the grad- Distinguished Service Professor in the was then flown over the Midway. Inspired by its uate program in Cinema and Media Studies with Law School and chairman of the adirector’s researches into late nineteenth-cen- prior filmmaking experience. The demands of Arts Planning Council, remarks tury aerial photography, the film both delights graduate school, however, can make it difficult that there were “several people the eye and asks the viewer to think about how to pursue creative and academic endeavors on the committee who know a perspective and point-of-view exert control over simultaneously. Kenneth Eisenstein made films lot about film, and their motion pictures. For the director, Cinema and before matriculating in the CMS doctoral pro- response was ‘I wish I thought Media Studies (CMS) graduate student Kaveh gram three years ago and confesses that “I of that.’” The Arts Planning

Askari, making the film heightened his under- haven’t touched a camera since I came to the U Council also funded a feature- TERRI FRANCIS

standing of the archives he has consulted: of C.” He does believe, however, that program- length film project called BY “Whenever you look at a movie, you also have to ming film series at Doc Films, the nation’s Haunting Pierrot’s Ghost directed look at the processes that brought it into being.” longest continuously-running student film soci- by Nima Bassiri (AB ’01). A collab- ENGLISH STUDENT, PH.D. Askari is part of a growing community of ety, has provided him with a creative outlet. oration between Fire Escape and filmmaker-scholars at the University who seek Another student organization, Fire Escape, University Theater, Haunting Pierrot’s continuity between filmmaking and film studies. provides students, in the words of its president Ghost is a father-son drama set in the enig- The Committee on Cinema and Media Jeff Sousa, the opportunity to “make movies matic realm of mime. Studies has quickly emerged as one of the from the ashes of our analysis.” Fire Escape While UChicagoArts has provided students nation’s leading programs for the academic screens student films each Tuesday following with funds to launch their film projects, the Film study of film, but the Committee thus far differs Doc’s regular feature presentation. The projects Studies Center, an autonomous affiliate of the from other film departments in not offering often signal a thoughtful engagement with film Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, pro- courses in film production. Tom Gunning, analysis and film history. CMS concentrator Sean vides budding directors with expertise by host- Edwin and Lindy Bergman Professor in the T. Daily’s Fugue,for instance, alludes to the style ing lectures and presentations by established Department of Art History and in the Commit- and imagery of film essayist Chris Marker’s filmmakers. Yet, as Gunning notes, “We have tee on Cinema and Media Studies, believes that science fiction classic, La Jetée. an important need to expand the possibility experiencing the process of filmmaking is inte- Two recent Fire Escape projects were of documentary production and to bring film- gral to serious intellectual engagement with the awarded grants from UChicagoArts, the newly- makers here to visit for a quarter to teach historical media. “I hope,” says Gunning, “that we can created funding arm of the University’s Arts or theoretical courses—not just practical ones.” BEHIND THE SCREEN WITH STUDENT FILMMAKERS establish more infrastructure for making art.” Planning Council. Undergraduates Star Mishkel- This initiative is being actively explored. DER

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