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    Marianna Torgovnick

  • Marianna Torgovnick

  • Women's Studies; and Related Faculty, Arts of the Moving Image
  • Arts of the Moving Image, Program in
  • 304e Allen Building
  • Campus Box 90015
  • Phone: (919) 684-2165, (919) 684-2110
  • Fax: (919) 688-0355
  • Office Hours: Fall 2010 - teaching in NY
    office hours by appointment
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  • Specialties

    • American Literature
    • Modern to Contemporary
    • Novels
    • Postcolonial Literature
    • British Literature

  • Research Summary

    American Literature and Film; Contemporary Novel; Modernist Studies

  • Research Description

    Marianna Torgovnick writes about 20th and 21st-century arts and culture, with an emphasis on literature and visual forms such as photography, painting, and film. She has published two books on primitivism, including the acclaimed Gone Primitive and projects a third volume in the future. She is also a memoirist and cultural critic, most notably in her award-winning Crossing Ocean Parkway and its sequel (in progress) “Crossing Back: A Modernist Reads the Classics.” Other interests include Contemporary Fiction and contemporary American life.

  • Education

      • Ph.D., with distinction,
      • Columbia University,
      • 1975
      • M.A., with distinction,
      • Columbia University,
      • 1971
      • B.A., magna cum laude,
      • English,
      • New York University,
      • 1970

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Fulbright Distinguished Scholar,
      • July, 2010
      • "Talk of the Nation," NPR,
      • August 2005
      • Chair, Literature and the Other Arts, Modern Language Association,
      • 2005
      • Executive Boards,
      • Modern Language Association Anthropoligical Approaches to Literature, Autobiography, Visual Arts & Literature,
      • October 2003
      • International Invitations,
      • October 2003
      • Summer Seminar Grant,
      • National Endowment for the Humanities,
      • March 1997
      • Winner for 'Crossing Ocean Parkway',
      • American Book Award,
      • March 1994
      • Cohen-Porter Visiting Scholar,
      • Tel Aviv University,
      • 0 1993
      • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship,
      • 1981
      • Other International Invitations,
      • n.d.
      • Mellon Reduced Teaching Award for Faculty Development,
      • Williams College,
      • 1980-81

  • Recent Publications

      • M. Torgovnick.
      • (2012).
      • Adventures in Digital Publishing.
      • Globalization: Appropriation or Hybridization? English Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Lobal World
      • ,
      • Cambridge Scholars
      • Cambridge U Press.
      Publication Description

      The title of the book will, I suspect, change:bot my call, though

      • M. Torgovnick.
      • (2012).
      • Cultual Criticism.
      • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AESTHETICS
      • .
      • (Revised edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.)
      • M. Torgovnick.
      • (2012).
      • FRIEDA'S TALE.
      Publication Description

      A fact-based re-imagining of the life of a famous man's wife who was a woman with a racy and unforgettable story all her own.

      Under consideration.

      • M. Torgovnick.
      • (2012).
      • PICNIC IN THE DARK: THE CLASSICS AT A TIME OF WAR.
      Publication Description

      A meditation on the status of the classics today interlaced with a memoir on encounters with death and mortality.

      • M. Torgovnick.
      • (2012).
      • "The Artist is Present".
      • FICTIONS OF ART HISTORY
      • .
      Publication Description

      Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA: 2013 Performance Art, Marina Abramovic, and the art of provocation.

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  • Teaching

    • ENGLISH 493.01
      • RESEARCH INDEPENDENT STUDY
      • TBA
      • 12:00 AM-12:00 AM
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