Faculty

Professor Thomas J. Harrison

Thomas J. Harrison, Professor with a PhD in Comparative Literature from C.U.N.Y., focuses his research on the 19th and 20th centuries. His interests cover poetry, the novel, aesthetic theory, philosophy, and film. He is the author of a multidisciplinary study of European expressionism called 1910: THE EMANCIPATION OF DISSONANCE (1996) and of ESSAYISM: CONRAD, MUSIL & PIRANDELLO (1992). Two of his edited collections are NIETZSCHE IN ITALY (1988) and THE FAVORITE MALICE: ONTOLOGY AND REFERENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN POETRY (1983). He has written articles on D'Annunzio, Ungaretti, Montale, Zanzotto, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Stanley Fish, Alfredo Giuliani, Carlo Michelstaedter, and Georg Lukacs. Link to Home Page