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Salvatore F. Allosso, sfallosso@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., UC Davis
Lecturer Emeritus in Comparative Literature
His abiding interest is in the moral impact that literature might
have on the lives of careful readers, and how that adds to the pleasure
of reading.
Manfred Kusch, makusch@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French
Manfred Kusch's interests include the 18th-century French Novel,
theory of literature, and the poetics of space. He is currently
preparing a book on the concept of the garden in literature from the
earliest times to the present.
Donna Reed, dkreed@ucdavis.edu
Lecturer Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Harvard University
Donna Reed was a lecturer in the
program from 1981 - 2004. Her publications reflect interests in the
19th- and 20th-century European novel and gender issues: The Novel and the Nazi Past;
"The Discontents of Civilization in Wuthering Heights and Buddenbrooks"; "Merging
Voices: Mrs. Dalloway and No Place on Earth".
Robert M. Torrance, rmtorrance@ucdavis.edu
Ph. D. Harvard University
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
He took his B. A. at Harvard in Greek and English, his M. A. at UC
Berkeley in Comparative Literature, and his Ph. D. at Harvard in
Comparative Literature. After teaching at Harvard and at Brooklyn
College of CUNY, he came to UC Davis in 1976. During his 25 years at
Davis, where he served several terms as both director and graduate
adviser, he played a central role in designing the undergraduate
curriculum and in instituting the Ph. D. program. His book-length
publications are translations of two plays of Sophocles, Philoctetes and
The Women of Trachis; The Comic Hero (from Homer to Joyce and Mann);
Ideal and Spleen: The Crisis of Transcendent Vision in Romantic, Symbolist, and
Modern Poetry; The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science; and Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebook
of widely varied readings exploring experiences and concepts of nature
in both Western and non-Western cultures throughout the centuries, with
extensive introductions and commentary.