Charitini Douvaldzi

Assistant Professor of German Studies

Building 260, Room 203
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2030
Phone: 650 723 0415
Fax: 650 725 8421
Email: douvaldzi@stanford.edu

Interests

18th to 20th century German literature and culture; autobiography and the Bildungsroman; psychoanalytic and cultural theory; narrative, vision, and the arts of memory; ethics and aesthetics of incompletion.

Education

2002 Ph.D. Harvard University, Comparative Literature
1994 M.A. University of Munich, Germany, Comparative Literature

Current Courses

Aut IHUM 48: Art of Living (co-taught with Josh Landy and Ken Taylor)
Win GerGen 168a/268a: Freud and the Enterprise of Psychoanalysis
Win DLCL 310: Dissertation from Prospectus to Defence
Spr GerGen 192/292: Oedipus/Hamlet/Moses

Previous Courses

GERGEN 206/306: The Arts of Memory
GERLIT 234: The Bildungsroman and Other Biographical Fictions
GERLIT 134B: Law and Justice in German Theater (in German)
GERGEN 121N: Memory and the Modernist Novel (SIS)

Storytelling and Its Discontents: Functions of Narrative in History, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (Harvard)
Sophomore Tutorial on Germany, 1750-present (Harvard)
Ästhetik der Erinnerung und europäischer Modernismus (University of Munich, Germany)

Publications

Commentary and translation: "Grammatische Bildlichkeit in Kavafis' Gedicht Thymisou, Soma…" by Roman Jakobson and Peter Colaclides. Roman Jakobson: Sämtliche Gedichtanalysen. Deut-sche Ausgabe, ed. Hendrik Birus and Sebastian Donat (forthcoming, Walter de Gruyter, 2007).

"Imagining the End: Time Construction, Millenarianism, and Personal Development in Autobiography and Bildungsroman." Time at the Millennium: Changes and Continuities, ed. Marlene Soulsby and Julius T. Fraser, Greenwood, 2001, pp. 65-80.

Lectures and Conference Presentations

"Oedipus/Moses: Affect, Translation, and the Psychoanalytic Models of Kinship." ACLA conference, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007 (accepted for presentation).

"Group Psychology Between Transference and Translation." Invited lecture, Conference on Freud: Found in Translation, Harvard Humanities Center, Harvard University, March 2007.

"Enclosed Cities: Fictional Panopticon and Autobiographical Panorama." MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.

"Freud's Mnemonics: From Theater To Archive." 8th Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 2006.

"Mimetic Logos: Schopenhauer, Freud, and the Psychology of Zeugma." ACLA conference, Princeton University, March 2006.

"Narrative Totalitarianism: Narcissism, Disavowal, and the Aestheticization of History." MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.

"Case History and Truth: The Value of Narrativity in Sigmund Freud's Dora." Invited lecture, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, November 2002.

"Present Doubts and Future Pleasures: On Time and Uncertainty in Psychoanalytic Theory." XIth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Castello di Gargonza, Italy, July 2001.

"Imagining the End." Xth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Germany, July 1998.

"Le texte n'existe pas: Theory and Practice in French Genetic Criticism." Comparative Literature Conference, Harvard University, April 1996.

"Broken Stuff: The Archaeology of Narration in Kostas Taktsis' The Third Wedding." Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Harvard University, November 1995.

Work in Progress

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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