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November 18, 2005|Volume 34, Number 12|Two-Week Issue


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Carol Jacobs



Carol Jacobs appointed to Baldwin Professorship

Carol Jacobs, the newly named Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, has a wide range of academic and teaching interests centered on literary, philosophical and theoretical texts from the 18th to the 20th century.

She has written on Frederick Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sophocles, the English Romantics, British 19th-century and 20th-century fiction, and film.

Jacobs' early books -- "The Dissimulating Harmony: The Image of Interpretation in Nietzsche, Rilke, Artaud & Benjamin" and "Uncontainable Romanticism" -- explore theories of authorship and authority, both literary and political, and their relation to issues of language, truth and knowledge. Her more recent books include "Telling Time," on representation and time in relation to narrative, and "In the Language of Walter Benjamin." Jacobs has also written numerous essays in books and several reviews and translations and co-edited (with H. Sussman) the book "Acts of Narrative."

Jacobs' current projects include work on a book titled "Skirting the Political," a series of essays on topics from classical tragedy to contemporary film examining the relationship between theories of language and the ethical.

Jacobs joined the Yale faculty in 2002 after teaching at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo from 1973 to 2000 and at New York University from 2000 to 2002. She was a visiting professor in the Department of German and the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University in 1998. At SUNY, Jacobs served as director of graduate studies for the Program in Comparative Literature and was acting director of the program. She has also been director of graduate studies in English and comparative literature.

A graduate of Cornell University, where she earned both B.A. and M.A. degrees, Jacobs earned her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. She undertook part of her graduate study in Paris, Zurich and Berlin.

The Yale professor's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Camargo foundations and two grants from the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been an invited lecturer at schools and in conferences across the country and in Europe and Australia.


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