 Professor of EnglishOffice: TB-1, Room 111 Telephone: 303-492-5370 E-mail: Ed.Rivers@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Modern literature; comparative literature; theory and practice of translation; pedagogical theory
Education
Certificat d'études françaises, Université de Lausanne, 1973
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1970
M.A., University of Oregon, 1968
A.B., Davidson College, 1966
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Charles Nicol, Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. Univ. of Texas Press, 1982
Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust. Columbia Univ. Press, 1980; rpt. 1983
Essays
"Nabokov’s Blues." Review 24 (2002): 203-55
"Rewriting Lolita." Review 22 (2000): 87-148
"Alone in the Void: 'Mademoisell O.'" Nabokov’s Short Fiction. Ed. Stephen Kellman and Irving Malin. Rodopi, 1999, 85-131
"The Unquenchable Vladimir Nabokov." Review 19 (1997): 125-59
"Vladimir Nabokov, Here and Hereafter." Review 15 (1993): 204-28
"Nabokov for the Nineties." Review 13 (1991): 60-81
"Rhetoric and Irony in Aristophanes' Clouds, 518-562." Hypatia: Essays in Classics, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Hazel E. Barnes on Her Seventieth Birthday. Ed. William M. Calder III, Ulrich K. Goldsmith, and Phyllis B. Kenevan. Colorado Associated University Press, 1985, 169-85
With Charles Nicol, "Introduction." Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. Univ. of Texas Press, 1982, xi-xvi
With William Walker, "Notes to Ada by Vivian Darkbloom," by Vladimir Nabokov (new edition of the text) and "Notes to Vivian Darkbloom's Notes to Ada." Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. Univ. of Texas Press, 1982, 242-59, 260-95
With William Walker, "Nabokov's Ada, Part 2, Chapter 7." The Explicator 39 (1981): 46-47
"Proust, Nabokov, and Ada." French-American Review 1 (1977): 173-97. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Vladimir Nabokov. Ed. Phyllis A. Roth. G. K. Hall, 1984, 136-57
"Proust and the Aesthetic of Suffering." Contemporary Literature 18 (1977): 425-42. Rev. version, Critical Essays on Marcel Proust. Ed. Barbara J. Bucknall. G.K. Hall, 1987, 118-33
"An Interview with William S. Burroughs." Resources for American Literary Study 10 (1980): 154-66
With William Walker, "Nabokov's Kapuskan Patois." The Explicator 36 (1978): 7-8
"Lolita's Tennis Coach: A Contribution to the Annotation of the Novel." Notes on Modern American Literature no. 1 (1977): 1-3
"A Reply to A. L. Rowse." Proust Research Association Newsletter 18 (1977): 37-38
"Raimbaut d'Orange and the Old Provençal Gap." Annuale Mediaevale 12 (1972): 5-20
"Aristophanes' Modern Translators: Translation as Criticism." Southern Humanities Review 4 (1970): 115-25
"The Greek Sources of Chénier's 'La Jeune Locrienne.'" Romance Notes 12 (1970): 1-6
With Peter E. Bondanella, "Sacripant and Sacripante: A Note on Proust and Ariosto." Romance Notes 11 (1969): 1-4
Translations published in
Sniper Logic, Square One
Selected honors and awards
President’s Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado, 1989
Teaching Lectureship, University of Colorado, 1987
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship, 1984-85
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Humanist's Research Fellowship, 1973-74
Current projects
Nabokov against the Grain (book)