David H. Richter

Professor of English

Ph.D. 1971, University of Chicago

The Eighteenth Century, Literary Theory, Biblical Narrative

 

Queens College Office: Klapper 639

Phone: (718) 997-4667

e-mail: david.richter@qc.cuny.edu

 

Graduate Center Office: GC 4105

Phone (212) 817-8330

e-mail: drichter@gc.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications:

• Fact, Fiction, and Form: Essays of Ralph Rader (ed., with James Phelan). Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.
• "The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance," in The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. J. Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• "Covert Plot in Isak Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre" in Journal of Narrative Technique,15.1 (1985): 82-90.
• "Introduction" to True Crime in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2011)
• “Keeping Company in Hollywood: Toward an Ethics of the Non-fiction Film,” in Narrative, 15:2 (May 2007): 140-66. : Toward an Ethics of the Non-fiction Film,”
• The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends (3^rd  Edition; Boston: Bedford, 2006).
• "Your Cheatin' Art: Double Dealing in Cinematic Narrative." Narrative 13:1 (January 2005): 11-28.
• Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature: (2^nd Edition; Boston: Bedford, 2000). 
• Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1999).
• " Farewell My Concubine: The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Outrage of Gibeah." in Agendas for the Study of Midrash, ed. Marc Lee Raphael (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary, 1999), pp. 101-122. Shorter Version
• The Progress of Romance: The Gothic Novel and Literary Historiography (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996).

Recent Papers:

• "Narrativity and Stasis in Martin Rowson's Tristram Shandy" 
• "Speaking Subalterns and Scribbling Colonists: Narrative Voice in Castle Rackrent"
• "Pluralism at the Millennium"
• "Late Reconfiguration, or Who Is Keyser Söze and Why Should We Care?" 
• "Crises of Identity: La femme sans nom, The Woman in White, and the Tichborne Claimant"

 

Syllabus for Fall 2012 Course

o Honors Seminar: Adaptation of Narrative across Media (Queens: English 399-01 and 399-02)

 

 

Syllabi for Spring 2012 Courses

o Contemporary Narrative Theory (Graduate Center: English 80600)

o The Bible as Literature (Queens: English 381 MW)

o The Bible on Film (Queens: English 285 MW)

 

 

Syllabi for Fall 2011 Courses

o Survey of English Literature 2 (Queens: English 252-01; 10:50 MW)

o Introduction to Narrative (Queens: English 161W-02; 1:40 MW)

     Syllabi for Spring 2011 Courses

o    Jane and Henry in Hollywood (Queens: English 391W 9W3A)

o    Literary Criticism (Queens: English 636 E4W2A)

o    The Rise of the Novel (Graduate Center: English 87100)