DAVID SCHUR

DSchur@brooklyn.cuny.edu

EDUCATION

1994 PhD, Harvard University, Comparative Literature (Greek, German, French)

1987 MA, Harvard University, Comparative Literature

1986 BA, University of Rochester, ancient Greek (French minor), magna cum laude, high honors,

Phi Beta Kappa

EXPERIENCE

· Brooklyn College, NY

2009-10 Asst. Prof. of Classics

2007-09 Substitute Asst. Prof. of Classics, teaching Classical Cultures (Core Curriculum, writing intensive), Greek and Roman Mythology, Elementary Greek; Upper-Tier Core

2005-07 Adjunct Asst. Prof. of Classics

· Miami University, OH

2002-04 Visiting Asst. Prof. of Classics, taught Mythology, Tragedy, Philosophy; Latin, Greek

· Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC

2001-02 Research Fellow

· Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1994-01 Assistant Head Tutor and Lecturer for Literature Major (supervised juniors in the program)

1997-01 Taught Sophomore Literature Proseminars (introductory seminars required of majors)

1994-01 Taught "Philosophy and Literature" in Harvard Extension School (survey from Plato and Lucretius to Nietzsche and de Beauvoir; writing-intensive)

1999-01 Taught "Existentialism" (writing-intensive) in Harvard Extension School

1988-01 Tutorial leader for Literature Major: taught individual honors tutorials on topics including Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Plato, Lucretius, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, Virgil, and Goethe; also supervised many Junior-Year Essays and Senior Theses

1994-98 Taught Freshman Seminar on "Freud and Literature"

1988-94 Discussion leader, "The Hero in Greek Civilization" (Core Curriculum course in Greek literature and thought; writing-intensive; professor: Gregory Nagy)

1991 Discussion leader, "Phenomenon of Writing" (professor: Christopher Braider).

1989 Discussion leader, "Approaches to the Lyric" (professor: Barbara Johnson)

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Research: Epic Poetry, Homer, Sophocles, Plato; Lucretius

Narrative Theory, Pedagogy of Close Reading, Freud and Literature, Metapoetics

Teaching: Greek and Latin Languages, Epic and Lyric Poetry, Ancient Poetics and Rhetoric,

Tragedy, Mythology, Ancients and Moderns, Critical Approaches

Languages: Greek, Latin, German, and French. Reading proficiency in Italian

BOOK

The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka (Harvard University Press), 1998

ARTICLES

"Jocasta’s Eye and Freud’s Uncanny." In Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Formation of the Polis. Ed. McCoskey and Zakin. SUNY Press (2009)

"A Garland of Stones: Hellenistic Lithika and Poetic Transformation." In Labored in Papyrus Leaves.

Ed. Acosta-Hughes et al. Harvard University Press (2003)

"Compulsion as Cure: Contrary Voices in Early Freud." New Literary History 32.3 (2001): 585-96

"A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Odyssey 5.476." Analecta Husserliana 44 (1995): 213-20

"Kafka's Way of Transcendence." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 30 (1994): 395-408

Dictionary entry: "Etymology." In International Dictionary of Literary Terms (DITL)

Review: Kafkas Spiele by Pavel Petr. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 31 (1995): 169-70

WORK IN PROGRESS

Book Projects:

Keeping Their Distance: Procedural Discourse in Archaic and Classical Literature

Close Reading: A Practical Guide to Method

Article Projects:

Epic Distances in the Song of the Sirens

Doubled Exposures: Burial Wrongs in Homer and Sophocles

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

2009 "Lost in Transmission: The Voice of Homer's Sirens." Brooklyn College, NY.

2004 "The Literary Form of Plato's Cave." The Classical Association of the Middle West and South. St. Louis, MO

2003 "Seeing Through Jocasta's Uncanny Eye." Conference on Antigone, Gender, and the City-State. Miami University. Oxford, OH

2002 "Posidippus and Poetic Transformation." Center for Hellenic Studies. Washington, DC

1994 "Heraclitus and Method." American Philological Association. Atlanta, GA

1993 "A Phenomenal Hiding Place: Homer, Heraclitus, Heidegger." International Society for Philosophy and Literature. Cambridge, MA

1992 "Judgment by Fire: Heraclitus, Blanchot, and Kafka." International Association of Philosophy and Literature. Berkeley, CA

HONORS

2001 Petra T. Shattuck Award for Excellence in Teaching

1993 Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

1992 Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

1992 Susan Anthony Potter Essay Prize in Comparative Literature

1989 General Examination passed with distinction

1986 Mumford Tuttle Prize for excellence in Greek

1986 Phi Beta Kappa