Stefan Fleischer
Office: 405 Clemens
Office Hours:
Phone: 645-2575 ext. 1031
E-mail: engstef@acsu.buffalo.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE (excerpts)
EDUCATION:
B.A. (high honors) University of Rochester, 1958.
M.A. English, Cornell University, 1960.
DAAD - Fulbright Fellowship to Univ. of Heidelberg, W. Germany, 1962-63.
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967.
Advanced Video Production Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, Summer, 1983.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970-Present.
COURSES AND COURSE MATERIALS:
English 301, Fall 2000
English 273, and English 442
Courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in
(at SUNYAB) the areas of Romanticism, the novel, theory of narrative, and composition. Survey courses in American and World Literature
Since 1970 concentrated heavily on the teaching of film (undergraduate-upper division and graduate) and film related journalism and documentary courses.
Courses in Composition intermittently.
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK:
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department, 1978-81.
- Member, DUE Planning Committee for Undergraduate Honors Program, Mary Lou Healy--Chair, 1979.
- Member, Affirmative Action Committee, Faculty Senate, 1979-81.
- Director, Graduate Fellows and Teaching Assistants English Department, 1985-88.
- Senior Member, Undergraduate College, 1986-89.
- Actively participated in Curriculum Planning Committee and Advisement Committee of the College; drafted Freshman Seminar proposal (with Barbara Bono), later adopted for implementation, starting September 1987.
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, English, 1991-94.
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, English, 1997-1999.
PUBLICATIONS (partial list):
Articles:
- "Bekenntnisse einer schoenen Seele": Figural Representation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,"
MLN, Vol. 83, #6, (December 1968).
- "A Study Through Stills of My Darling Clementine." Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 3, #2, (April, 1973).
- With Thomas Benson, "Teaching the Rhetoric of Film: Access to Images," Today's Speech. Winter, 1975.
- "Two on Film and Literature," Film Quarterly. Summer, 1977.
- "Dying To Be On Television," Film Quarterly. Summer, 1978.
- "Bored Stiff: Brian DePalma's Body Double and Visual Pornography," Black Mountain Review, II, Summer, 1987.
Videotapes:
"Howard's Allegro," A musical performance and teaching tape, shown at Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Summer 1982.
"Rochester's Jews: Journey from Joseph Avenue," 20 minute documentary, shown at Rochester Institute of Technology, Summer, 1983 and at JCC of Greater Rochester, November 1983.
Reviews, Papers, and Seminars:
Reviews in Ohio History, Modern German Studies and elsewhere of books on film culture,
Romanticism(Goethe, Hoelderlin, etc.).
Numerous papers delivered and sections chaired on topics of film, film rhetoric, popular culture, for
NEMLA, SCAP, Popular Culture Association, Society for Cinema Studies, and others, in Buffalo, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, NYC, Philadelphia, Louisville, Syracuse, and elsewhere.
"Bored Stiff: Brian DePalma's Body Double and Visual Pornography," delivered to Symposium in Literature and Psychology, under the auspices of the Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, May 8-10, 1987.
From 1990-1994, I reviewed film books and biographies (on
Brando, Woody Allen, Capra, others) and books on photography for Buffalo News.
I am presently in the middle stages of a book length project on film documentary and literary representations of
deindustrialization, of miners as the "type of the industrial worker" (Orwell), with a particular focus on Logan, West Virginia, site of the legendary Matewan shoot-out.
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