Title
Professor of English
Comparative Literature
English
Film, Television and Interactive Media
Expertise
Poetry. Renaissance. Romanticism. Theory. Literature and Philosophy. Film.
Degrees
Cornell University, Ph.D.
Cornell University, M.A.
Yale University, B.A.
Contact
| Email: | flesch@brandeis.edu |
| Phone: | 781-736-2142 |
| Office: | Rabb Graduate Center, 139 |
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 | 10b | Poetry: A Basic Course |
| 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
