Belén Bistué completed her undergraduate program in Spanish and Classics at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis. She worked for ten years as Tenured Researcher for the Argentine Research Council (CONICET) at the Comparative Literature Center of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, where she also taught English and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on collaborative and multilingual translation techniques used in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. She pays special attention to the...
Jocelyn Saidenberg earned her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Greek, Latin, and contemporary Anglophone poetry and is informed by her interests in linguistics, social anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Her dissertation, Echo Otherwise, an elaboration of Lucretius’s atomic poetics, explores the relationship between didactic poetry’s transformational capacity and sonic and linguistic patterning. She also writes on contemporary poetry and art and has several published collections of poetry....
I work on Modern Greek and Comparative Literature with particular interests in literary form and violence, poetry and ritual, image and monument, illness and cure, and psychoanalysis. I am currently writing a book, tentatively titled Ash, Bone, Dirt, Stone, on the aesthetics of destruction and survival in twentieth-century Greek poetry, prose, and film.
As a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature, I offer seminars on Greek literature and film, including "History and Trauma," "Men, Masculinity, and Violence," "The Aesthetics of...
