Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of English

Comparative Literature
English

Expertise

Poetry. Renaissance. Romanticism. Theory. Literature and Philosophy. Film.

Awards and Honors

International Chair Professor at National Taipei University of Technology (2012)

Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2003)

National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship (1992 - 1993)

Marver & Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1989 - 1990)

Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching (1988 - 1989)

Martin Sampson Teaching Award, Cornell University (1984)

Henry Strong Prize for best essay on American Literature, Yale (1978)

Courses Taught

COML	190b	Fictional Thinking
ECS	110a	Thinking about Infinity
ENG	11a	Close Reading: Theory and Practice
ENG	21a	Adolescent Literature from Grimm to Voldemort
ENG	27b	Classic Hollywood Cinema
ENG	33a	Shakespeare
ENG	63a	Renaissance Poetry
ENG	104a	Eighteenth-Century British Poetry, from Dryden to Blake
ENG	125b	Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
ENG	133a	Advanced Shakespeare
ENG	147a	Film Noir
ENG	173a	Spenser and Milton
ENG	177a	Hitchcock's Movies
ENG	180a	The Modern American Short Story
ENG	200a	Methods of Literary Study
ENG	241a	Darwinian Approaches to Narrative Theory
FILM	100a	Introduction to the Moving Image
HUM	10a	The Western Canon
PHIL	182a	Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Scholarship

Flesch, William. "Intertemporal bargaining and literary experience." Oxford Handbook for Cognitive Approaches to Literature. Ed. Lisa Zunshine., 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "Intertemporal bargaining and narrative theory." Theory Aside. Ed. Jason Potts. Duke University Press, 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "N/A." Rev. of Cain; The Life of Things, by Jose Saramago. Los Angeles Review of Books 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "N/A." Rev. of The Magic of Reality; Pathological Altruism, by Richard Dawkins; Barbara Oakley, et al.. Los Angeles Review of Books 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "Narrative and non-causal bargaining." Novel: A Forum on Fiction (2012). (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "Other memes, other minds." Early Modern Culture (2012) (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "Punishment, Justification and Personal Identity [in Milton]." Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason Is But Choosing”. Ed. Margaret Thickstun and Richard DuRocher. Duquesne University Press, 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "Reductive Antireductionism." Early Modern Culture (2012) (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "What makes someone a character in Shakespeare?." Shakespeare's Sense of Character, Viewed on the Page and from the Stage. Ed. Yu Jin Ko. Ashgate, 2012 (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "“Shelley’s Clarity”." The Wordsworth Circle (2012). (forthcoming)

Flesch, William. "A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation." Rev. of A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation, by Nancy Easterlin. Times Literary Supplement 2013: 26.

Flesch, William. "Cain and The Life of Things." Rev. of Cain and The Life of Things, by Jose Saramago. Los Angeles Review of Books 2013

Flesch, William. "Lightning Rods." Rev. of Lightning Rods, by Helen DeWitt. Los Angeles Review of Books 2013

Flesch, William. "The Critical Pulse." Rev. of The Critical Pulse, by Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen, eds.. Times Literary Supplement 2013: 31.

Flesch, William. "These Dreams of You." Rev. of These Dreams of You, by Steve Erickson. Times Literary Supplement 2013: 27.

Flesch, William. "N/A." Rev. of Distrust That Particular Flavor, by William Gibson. Times Literary Supplement 2012: 27.

Flesch, William. "N/A." Rev. of Hollywood Westerns and American Myth; The Fugitive in Flight, by Robert Pippin,;Stanley Fish. Los Angles Review of Books October 4, 2011

Flesch, William. "The Magic of Reality and Pathological Altruism." Rev. of The Magic of Reality; Pathological Altruism, by Richard Dawkins and Barbara Oakley et al.. Los Angeles Review of Books 2012

Flesch, William. "“Bishop and Merrill, “ contribution to a forum called “Who’s in / Who’s out?”." American Book Review July-August, 2011

Flesch, William. "The Burning Boy." Bedeutung (2011).

Flesch, William. "Vindication and Vindictiveness." Evolution and Literary Studies: A Reader. Ed. Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 360-66.

Flesch, William. "“Satire and subjectivity”." The Blackwell Companion to Romantic Poetry. Ed. Charles Mahoney. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 95-106.

Flesch, William, under pseudonym Martin Browning. "The Burning Boy." Bedeutung Magazine (2010).

Flesch, William. "The Bounds of the Incidental: Shakespeare's view of Accuracy." Something Understood. Ed. Nick Halpern and Stephen Burt. Charlottesville: Univesity of Virginia, 2010. 83-104.

Flesch, William. Facts on File Companion to Nineteenth Century British Poetry. 1 ed. New York: Facts on File, 2009.

Flesch, William. Comeuppance: Altruistic Punishment, Costly Signaling and other Biological Components of Fiction. 1st ed. Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 2008.

Flesch,William. "Personal Identity and Vicarious Experience in Shakespeare's Sonnets." Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets. 1st ed. vol. 1 Ed. Michael Schoenbaum. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 383-401.

Flesch,William. Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare. Herbert, 1992.