Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Assistant Professor - English
On Leave Fall 2022
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
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Research
Modernism in European and World Literatures, faith and secularity, confession, the experimental novel, early film
Degrees
- B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, Philosophy and Political Science, 1990
- M.A., University of Virginia, Philosophy, 1998
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 2008
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-
- Fellow in the Arts and Humanities, Harvard University, 2011-2013
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2009-2011
Distinctions
- Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS), Louisiana Board of Regents, 2016-2017
- Harvard College Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2011-2013
- Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence, 2011-2012
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2009-2011
- Diller Prize for Research in Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley, 2007-2008
- Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fellowship, 2005-2006
Languages
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Latin
Overseas Experience
- France
- Germany
- Norway
- Argentina
Selected Publications
- Forthcoming. “The Proper Stuff of Fiction: Objects and Woolf’s Method, from the early stories to Jacob’s Room” Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Anne Fernald, Oxford University Press.
- 2017. Wittgenstein and Modernism. Edited by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
- 2017. “Wittgenstein and the Contradictions of Philosophy as Poetry,” with Michael LeMahieu, Wittgenstein and Modernism. Edited by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
- 2017. “The World as Bloom found it: ‘Ithaca,’ the Tractatus and the solution of difficult problems in imaginary or real life,” Wittgenstein and Modernism, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé and Michael LeMahieu, University of Chicago Press.
- 2015. “Our Toil Respite Only: Woolf, Diamond and the Difficulty of Reality,” MLN: Modern Language Notes. December 2015, 130(5): 1100-1129.
- 2012. “The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein.” Comparative Literature 64 (4).
- 2003. “‘All music when you come to think:’ James Joyce in Dublin.” James Joyce Quarterly 39 (4).