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Martin Elsky

Professor   Department: English   Location: 4161 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5281   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 1977 (ENGLISH, GENERAL) Books and Publications "Erich Auerbach: Dante as Poet of Jewish Assimilation"; to be submitted to Journal of the History of Ideas. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Thomas Whythorne?s Autobiography and the Architecture of Privacy." In early stages. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Wissenschaft und nationale Identität. Erich Auerbachs figurale Interpretation als Herausforderung an eine liberale Religion" [Scholarship and National Idenity: Erich Auerbach's Figural Interoretation and the Cahllenge to Liberal Religion], In Marbacher Schriften: Neue Folge. Ed. Ulrich von Bülow. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Forthcoming Spring 2009. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin, and the Ruins of Figura: Some Observations on the Intellectual Consequences of a Berlin Friendship; to be submitted to Comparative Literature Studies. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 Scholarship and National Identity: German Tri-confessional German History and the Work of Erich Auerbach (accepted by Oxford UP; ms invited for submission). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 From the German: With Martin Vialon and Robert Stein. "Scholarship in Times of Extremes: Letters of Erich Auerbach (1933-1946), on the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Death." PMLA, May 2007. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Appointed to Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center (Awards and Honors) 2006 Appointed to Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center (Awards and Honors) 1990 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "The Eroticized House and the Renaissance Invention of the Private Room," The Culture of Appearances in Medieval & Renaissance Europe. February 29, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "The Travels and Travails of Erich Auerbach: Rethinking Europe en Route from Germany to Istanbul." Department of Romance Philology, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain); Department of English and Department of Spanish and Literary Theory, University of Valladolid. January 22-23, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Erich Auerbach: Nationalität, Identität, Religion: Figurale Deutung, Judentum und ein Blick zurück auf die deutsch-liberale Bibelhermeneutik" Internationales Symposium: Erich Auerbach: Philologie- Geschichte - Verstehen. Sponsored by Goethe-Institut Istanbul und Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin. Goethe-Haus, Istanbul, December 15, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Hermeneutic Turn in the Literary Criticism of Erich Auerbach during his Tenure in Istanbul." Yedetepe University, Istanbul, April 30, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Scholar-in-Residence [talks on Auerbach, Jonson, and Sidney, workshops with students], Fu-Jen University, Taipei, January 2-13, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Professional Leadership Ad Committee on Humanities Dissertation Awards, Spring 2008 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Composer of English Program self-study report for Renaissance-Early Modern field group, Spring 2008 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 Organizer, Plenary Session: "Spain and the Spanish Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World," RSA Conference, Chicago, April, 2008. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Co-organizer with Jane O. Newman:"Reappraising Auerbach's Contexts: A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of Erich Auerbach's Death" (collaborative conference organized with University of California-Irvine and the Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung Berlin), November 8-9, 2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 Co-organizer with Virginia Cox: Worlds Apart: Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire (collaborative conference organized with New York University), March 30-31, 2007, April 12, 2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 The Early Modern Culture of the Book: A Colloquium in Honor of W. Speed Hill, CUNY Renaissance Studies Colloquium, March 9, 2007. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 Other Professional Activities Articles Editor, Renaissance Quarterly, 2006-present 2006