Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

Assistant Professor - English

On Leave Fall 2022
School of Liberal Arts
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Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé

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

Related Experience

  • Member, Philosophy and Literature Working Group, Harvard University, 2012-2013
  • Member, Philosophy and Literature Focal Group, Stanford University, 2010-2011
  • Panel Organizer, “Meditation on Schemes Difficult,” MSA, 2010
  • Panel Organizer, “Precision and Soul in Modernism,” MSA, 2006

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
https://tulane.academia.edu/MarcZender
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  • Mesoamerica
Marc Zender

Additional Info

Recently-Taught Latin America-Related Courses: 

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:

7

Research

Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages and Writing Systems, Epigraphy, Anthropological & Historical Linguistics, Comparative Writing Systems and Decipherment, Iconography & Visual Culture, Religion, Identity, Mesoamerica, Archaeology

Degrees

  • B.A., University of British Columbia, Anthropology, 1997
  • M.A., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 1999
  • Ph.D., University of Calgary, Archaeology, 2004

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

Related Experience

  • Associate Editor, The PARI Journal, 2009-2011
  • Archaeological Field Director, Harvard Field School, 2006-2008
  • Reviewer, Ancient Mesoamerica, Ethnohistory, Latin American Antiquity, Maya Archaeology, 2005-2011
  • Project Epigrapher, Proyecto Arqueológico de Comalcalco, Tabasco, Méxic, 2003-2010

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.
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