Carey Harrison

  Professor
  Department: English
  Location: 2412 Boylan Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5641
  Fax: 718-951-4612

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My tattoo is a passage of German philosophy, in the original German. It is the opening section, "Fuer Marcel Proust" ("for Marcel Proust"), of Theodor Adorno's philosophical journal, Minima Moralia. It's my favorite book. I've put so much of my life into reading and writing fiction that it's a pleasant change to read concentrated intellectual matter. He has written some 170 screenplays, teleplays and stage plays, the latest of which is running off-Broadway, and 16 novels. I'm fortunate to spend so much of my year with Brooklyn College students, the most enjoyable company of any student body I've encountered, in a teaching career that spans seven universities in the US and my native UK. For further details take a look at my wikipedia site, very kindly and efficiently put together by a Brooklyn College graduate.

Education:
M.A., Cambridge University (United Kingdom) - 1998 (English)

B.A., Cambridge University (United Kindgom) - 1972 (English, General)

Areas of Expertise:
Novels ancient and modern, from Sterne to the present day; drama from Aeschylus to Mamet. Harrison speaks four languages reasonably well and has attempted to learn a total of nine. His publications include translations from French, German, Italian and, most recently, Arabic.