Thomas J. Harrison
PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN
Mailing address
212 Royce Hall
Box 951535
Los Angeles CA 90095-1535
Phone: 310 794 8912
Email: harrison@humnet.ucla.edu
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1984.
M.Phil., Comparature Literature, CUNY, 1982.
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1977.
1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (author). Berkeley & Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1996.
Essayism: Conrad, Musil and Pirandello (author). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
Nietzsche
in Italy (editor). Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1988.
The Favorite Malice: Ontology and Reference in Contemporary Italian Poetry (editor and translator). New York: Out of London Press, 1983.
Double issue of Stanford Italian Review 6, nos. 1-2 (1986). Reissued as the book Nietzsche in Italy .
Contemporary Italian Philosophy: Critique of Ideology and Hermeneutics . GraduateFaculty Philosophy Journal 10 (1984): 99-177 (with Peter Carravetta). Studies by H. White, M. Perniola, G. Agamben and others.
“Laughter and the Tree of Knowledge,” Italy and France: Imagined Geographies, special issue of The Romanic Review vol. 97, nos. 3-4 (May-November 2006): 501-515.
“Overcoming Aestheticism,” Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, ed. Mario Moroni and Luca Somigli (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 167-190.
“Hollywood,” entry in the five-volume Enciclopedia del Cinema Treccani (Treccani, 2005).
"The Remoteness of Poetry." Afterword to Echoes of Memory: Selected Poems of Lucio Mariani (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), pp. 109-113.
"Tempus tacendi, tempus loquendi," Poesia 172 (May 2003).
"Fine della lotta fra poesia e filosofia," La lotta con Proteo , ed. Gay Bardin and Massimo Ciavolella (Florence: Casalini, 2000), pp. 467-477.
"Playing with Plato's Shadows," Critic Eye 1 (April, 2000).
"Regicide, Parricide and Tyrannicide in Il fu Mattia Pascal : Stealing from the Father to Give to the Son," Luigi Pirandello: Contemporary Perspectives , ed. Gian-Paolo Biasin and Manuela Gieri (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp. 189-213.
"Leopardi, Unabomber," Giacomo Leopardi: Poeta e filosofo , ed. Alessandro Carrera (Florence: Cadmo, 1999), pp. 51-60.
"The
Michelstaedter Enigma," Differentia: Review of Italian Thought
8-9 (Spring/Autumn, 1999): 125-141.
"De ethiek van het misverstand: Een twintigste-eeuws dilemma bij Michelstaedter, Lukács en Wittgenstein" (An Ethics of Misunderstanding), Nexus 20 (May, 1998): 66-91.
"Thinking in the Absence of Image," Introduction to Michelangelo Antonioni, Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenarios and Ideas (New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1998).
"Vi racconto Lord Jim," Il Carabiniere L, no. 12 (December, 1997): 38-44.
"Filosofia dell'arte, filosofia della morte," Filosofia '95 , ed. Gianni Vattimo (Bari: Laterza, 1996).
"Stanley Fish," La critica in America, ed. John Picchione (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1993), pp. 97-113.
"Alfredo Giuliani," Twentieth Century Italian Poetry: An Anthology , ed. John Picchione and Lawrence R. Smith (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 371-381.
"The
Lyric and the Antilyric," Shearsmen of Sorts: Italian Poetry
1975-1993 (Forum Italicum, Italian Poetry Supplement, 1992), pp. 109-130.
"Carlo
Michelstaedter and the Metaphysics of Will," MLN 106 (December
1991): 1012-1029.
"Deconstruction and Reader-Response: The Pedagogical Essay," Italian Literature in North America , ed. John Picchione and Laura Pietropaolo (Ottawa: The Canadian Society for Italian Studies, 1990), pp. 131-138.
"D'Annunzio's
Poetics: The Orphic Conceit," Annali d'italianistica
5 (1987): 60-73.
"Have I Been Understood? The Eternal Nowhere of Nietzschean Existence," Stanford Italian Review 6 (1986): 181-198.
"Andrea Zanzotto: From the Language of the World to the World of Language," Poesis 5 (1984): 68-85. Reprinted in The Empty Set , ed. Maurizio Godorecci (New York: Queens College Press, 1984), pp. 66-78.
"Nietzsche,
Heidegger, and the Language of Contemporary Italian Poetry," in The
Favorite Malice , pp. 19-55.
Michelangelo Antonioni, The Architecture of Vision: Writings & Interviews on Cinema , Film Criticism XXII, no. 2 (Winter 1997-98): 66-71.
Claudia Monti, La metafora della scienza , Musil-Forum 17-18 (1991-92): 344-48.
Beverly Allen, Verso la "Beltà": Gli esordi della poesia di Andrea Zanzotto , L'anello che non tiene 3 (1989): 76-78.
F. J. Jones, The Modern Italian Lyric , Italica 66 (1989): 361-64.
Jacques Taminiaux, Recoupements , Review of Metaphysics 39 (1985): 172-73.
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space , Review of Metaphysics 39 (1985): 162-63.
Thomas Sheehan, Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker , Review of Metaphysics 37 (1983): 146-48.
Gianni Vattimo, Le avventure della differenza , Review of Metaphysics 35 (1981): 174-76.
Mussolini's Secret War , one-hour documentary for The History Channel, 2001. Interviewee.
Cool , RAI Tre, 1998. With Paolo Fabbri and Jean Baudrillard. Interviewee.
Sesame Street in Italy , Children's Television Workshop, New York, 1992. Consultant.
Evening in Italy , a week-long television special for Group W-KYW Television, Philadelphia, 1990. Production Coordinator.
Conversazione con Richard Rorty . Interview with the philosopher on RAI , Italian National Broadcasting Corporation: America from Coast to Coast , Terzo Programma, 1984.
