Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
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
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).
Marc Zender
Marc Zender
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- Mesoamerica
Additional Info
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 7
Research
Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages and Writing Systems; Anthropological & Historical Linguistics; Comparative Writing Systems and Decipherment; Iconography & Visual Culture; Religion; Identity
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 2004
- M.A., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 1999
- B.A., University of British Columbia, Anthropology, 1997
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Associate Professor, 2019-
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2011-2019
- Lecturer, Harvard University, 2005-2011
- Instructor, University of Calgary, 2002-2003
- Teaching Fellow, University of Calgary, 1999-2003
Distinctions
- Peabody Museum Research Grant, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2010-2011
- Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction, Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, 2002
Languages
- Spanish
- German
- Ch’olan
- Yukatekan
- Tzeltalan
- Nahuatl
Overseas Experience
- Germany
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Poland
- Denmark
- Finland
Selected Publications
- 2017. “Theory and Method in Maya Decipherment.” PARI Journal 18(2):1-48.
- 2013. “Reading in Context: The Interpretations of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts.‘ With D. Law, S. Houston, N. Carter, and D. Stuart. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 23(2): E23-E47.
- 2011. Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Scultpure (w/ Andrea Stone). Thames & Hudson, London.
- 2008. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nahuatl Decipherment. PARI Journal 8(4): 24-37. www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/archive/PARI0804.pdf
- 2006. Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (w/ E. Robertson, J. Seibert and D. Fernandez). Second edition. University of New Mexico Press.
