Inger Brodey

Associate Professor of English & Comp Literature (3225)

434 Greenlaw
Campus Box 3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
919-843-0965 (phone)
919-667-6863 (fax)
brodey@email.unc.edu

B.A. The Colorado College, 1987

Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, West Germany, 1987-1988

Middlebury College, 1989

M.A. University of Chicago, 1990

M.A. University of Chicago, 1991

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993

Research And Teaching Interests

Inger Brodey's primary interest is in the history of the novel in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe and Meiji Japan. She works in German, Japanese, French, and Italian, as well as English and her native Danish.

Courses Offered (As Schedule Allows)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• Global Jane Austen
• Literary Landscapes
• Approaches to Comparative Literature
• Cross-Currents in East-West Literature
• Cowboys, Samurai, Rebels in Film and Fiction
• Almost Despicable Heroines
• The Feast in Film, Philosophy, and Fiction
• Asian Food Rituals
• Narrative Silence

Several of these courses are cross-listed with Asian studies.

Publications

BOOKS:

Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility. New York: Routledge, (June) 2008.  273 pages, excluding index.

Rediscovering Natsume Sôseki (with the first English translation of Travels through Manchuria and Korea). Co-edited and Co-translated with Sammy Tsunematsu.  Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental, 2001.  155 pages.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND INTRODUCTIONS:

“Avenues, Parks, Wilderness, and Ha-has: The Use and Abuse of Landscape in Mansfield Park” in Approaches to Teaching Mansfield Park.  Eds. Marcia McClintock Folsom and John Wiltshire.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2011 (in press).

“Beyond ‘the Island’: Recreating a Global Jane Austen,” Susan Allen Ford and Inger Sigrun Brodey.  Persuasions 28. 2 (April, 2008): http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol28no2/editors.html.

“Preromanticism, or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences” in Companion to European Romanticism.  Ed. Michael Ferber. London: Blackwell, 2005. 10-28.

“Introduction” to Rediscovering Natsume Sôseki (with the first English translation of Travels through Manchuria and Korea). Ed. and trans. Sammy Tsunematsu and Inger Sigrun Brodey.  Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental, 2001.  1-32.

“Introduction” to Natsume Sôseki, “My Individualism” and “The Philosophical Foundations of Literature.” Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2004. 9-23.

“‘Merry Wars’ and ‘General Incivility’: Wit, Love, and Warfare in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing” in Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times.  Ed. Eduardo Velàsquez.  Lexington, KY: Lexington Books, 2003. 87-118

“When Vanity is a Virtue: Self-Regard in Adam Smith and Jane Austen” in Women, Nature, and Politics.  Ed. Eduardo Velàsquez.  Lanham and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.  245-264.

“Words ‘Half-Dethron’d’: Jane Austen’s Art of the Unspoken” in Jane Austen’s Business, Eds. Juliet McMaster and Bruce Stovel. London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1996.  95-106. 

REFEREED ARTICLES IN LITERATURE:

“Austen’s Successors: Fanny as Romantic Heroine,” under review.

“Ema: The New Face of Jane Austen in Japan,” Southern Japan Review (2011): 7-32.

“Cactus Roses and Camellias: Flowers, Action, and Masculinity in Sanjurô and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” [Japanese title: サボテンの花と椿：三十郎」及び「リバティ・バランスを撃った男」に見る花とアクションそして男らしさについて], U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal 36 (2009), 3-27.

“Jane Austen in Japan: ‘Good Mother’ or ‘New Woman’?,” Eleanor J. Hogan and Inger Sigrun Brodey, Persuasions 28. 2 (April, 2008): http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol28no2/brodey-hogan.htm.

“The Adventures of a Female Werther: Austen’s Revision of Sensibility,” Philosophy and Literature 23. 1 (April 1999): 110-126.

“Natsume Sôseki and Laurence Sterne: Cross-Cultural Discourse on Literary Linearity,” Comparative Literature 50. 3 (Summer 1998): 193-219.

“Masculinity, Sensibility, and the ‘Man of Feeling’: the Gendered Ethics of Goethe’s Werther,” Papers on Language and Literature 35. 2 (Spring 1999): 115-140.

“Not What We Read but How: Where T.S. Eliot Meets Clifford Geertz,” Mosaic 32.2 (June 1999): 75-90.

“Resorting and Consorting with Strangers: Jane Austen’s Multiculturalism,” Persuasions 19 (December 1997):130-143.

“Papas and Ha-has: Authority, Rebellion, and Landscape Gardening in Mansfield Park,” Persuasions 17 (December 1995): 90-96.

“Persuasion and Persuadability: When Vanity is a Virtue,” Persuasions 15 (December 1993): 235-244.

“Dangerous Words and Silent Lovers,” Persuasions 12 (December 1990): 134-38.

Curriculum Vitae

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