Corinne Scheiner joined the Program in Comparative Literature at 华体会 in the fall of 2000. She earned her B.A. in foreign literatures (French and Russian) from Pomona College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago. She teaches a wide range of courses on literature and literary theory for the major in comparative literature and the minor in world literature.
Her research and teaching interests include translation studies, specifically self-translation; literary bilingualism; and the 20th- and 21st-century novel in French, Russian, English, and Italian, in particular the works of Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace. Her work in these areas has been published in a number of edited collections, including the Modern Language Association’s Approaches to Teaching Lolita. Her current project is on the abject and its role in the production of selfhood in the fiction of David Foster Wallace.
Her interests also include the practice and teaching of comparative literature. Her work in this area has been published in Comparative Literature and Profession and as part of the American Comparative Literature’s Association’s decennial reports on the State of the Discipline.
