Deborah Harter, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Contemporary Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Narrative Poetics, Comparative Literature, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Psychoanalysis. Office: RH 215 Office hours: Phone: 713-348-2607 E-mail: harter@rice.edu Spring 2008 Courses: FREN 312 - Major Literary Works and Artifacts of Post-Revolutionary France: the Romantic Legacy Research Fellowships and Awards: 2003-2004         Center for the Study of Cultures Research Fellowship, Rice University 1992-1993         ACLS Senior Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies) 1988-1990         Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Chicago 1987-1988         Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 1986-1987         AAUW Fellowship (American Association of University Women) 1981-1982         Regents' Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Teaching Prizes and Related Honors 2006                   Award for Extraordinary Service to the Rice Faculty Senate 2003                   Rice Nominee, Carnegie (CASE) U.S. Professor of the Year Award 2000                   Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College 1999                   Winner, George R. Brown Prize for Superior Teaching, Rice University 1998                   Impact Award for Outstanding Contributions to Women at Rice 1996                   Winner, George R. Brown Prize for Superior Teaching, Rice University 1994-1996         Named Allison Sarofim Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Rice 1995                   Distinguished Faculty Associate, Wiess College 1992                   Winner, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize for Outstanding Teaching, Rice University Publications: Books: Imaging Excess: Portraits of Pathology from Balzac to Kafka, from Géricault to 'Silence of the Lambs.' (In progress.) Bodies in Pieces: Fantastic Narrative and the Poetics of the Fragment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Edited Volume Histories of Representation, from Visual to Virtual: 19th-Century France and 21st- Century Culture. Edited with Melanie Hawthorne and Alexandra Wettlaufer. (To be submitted this summer to MIT Press.) Articles, Essays, Reviews "The Haunting: Aesthetic Excess and Modernity." Journal of Modern Philology (University of Chicago Press, ed. Richard Strier). (Review Essay, forthcoming) "Balancing Acts: French Studies in the Graduate and Undergraduate Classroom." Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies, ed. Charles J. Stivale (2004): 198-207. "Medievalism in Flaubert." In A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, ed. Laurence M. Porter (London: Greenwood Press, 2001). "Baudelaire and the Poetics of Perversity." In Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, ed. Laurence M. Porter (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999): 922-24. Review of Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education (MIT Press, 1994), Journal of Modern History 71, no. 4 (1999): 922-24. "Silenced by the City: Maupassant's Flâneur and Uneasy Dreams." In Narrative Ironies, eds. Clayton Koelb and Raymond Prier (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997). Review of J. Hillis Miller, Versions of Pygmalion (Harvard UP, 1990), Comparative Literature Studies 29 (1992): 112-116. "Divided Selves, Ironic Counterparts: Intertextual Doubling in Baudelaire's 'L'Héautontimorouménos' and Poe's 'The Haunted Palace,'" Comparative Literature Studies 26 (1989): 28-38. "From Represented to Literal Space: Fantastic Narrative and the Body in Pieces, L'Esprit créateur 28 (1988): 23-35. "The Artist on Trial: Kafka and Josefine, 'die Sängerin," Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaf und Geistesgeschichte 61 (1987): 3-14.