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 Kathleen
L. Komar
Professor
komar@ucla.edu
(310) 825-3406
Humanities 332
Professor Komar earned her
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in
1977. She holds an appointment in the Comparative Literature
Department and an affiliated appointment in the Department
of Germanic Languages at UCLA. She is currently President of
the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) and
will serve in this office until 2007. Komar has published on
a wide variety of topics from Romanticism to the present in
both American and German literature. Her books include Pattern
and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, Faulkner,
Döblin, and Koeppen (1983), Transcending Angels:
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (1987), and
Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation
(2003).
She co-edited with Ross Shideler the volume Lyrical
Symbols and Narrative Transformations (1998). Her recent
publications focus on contemporary women authors such as
Christa Wolf, Bessie Head, Ingeborg Bachmann, Monique Wittig,
and Christa Reinig, as well as male authors such as Rilke,
Stevens, Faulkner, James, Brecht, and Broch. Komar has also
published articles on the status of feminist studies in the
academy and the current status of Comparative Literature as
a discipline. A recipient of the Distinguished Teaching
Award in 1989, Professor Komar's classes include courses on
feminist theory, modernism, and contemporary women's
literature. She served as Chair of the Academic
Senate at UCLA in 2004-05.
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