Annual Activities Report - CLAS Faculty
March 16, 2012 to March 15, 2013
DUE IN DEAN'S OFFICE BY APRIL 15, 2013
1.NameRichard BurtBudgeted DeptEnglis Date1/24/2013
2.Affiliate Appts.3. Grad. Faculty Status: X YesNo
4.Present RankProfessor5. Appointed to this rank2003
(Year)
6.Tenure2003 7. Current Salary100,357.00 (9 mo.)
(Year)(9 mo.)(12 mo.)
8.Salary Source (%): State____100______Grant______
9.Summer Appointment, if any:______
(Department, %)(Grant, %)
10.Courses you have taught during year:
Semester / Course Number and title / SectionNumber / Credit
Hours / Initially
Enrolled / Number
Graded / % Your
Responsibility
Summer 2012
Fall 2012 / Sabbatical / - / - / - / - / -
Spring 2013 / ENG 4133 Drive / 1G46 / 3 / 27 / 100
Spring 2013 / ENG 4133 Silent Film Philology / 1G33 / 3 / 21 / 100
11.Approximate number of undergraduate majors you advised during reporting period
12.Number of graduate committees on which you served during reporting period
Role / Masters / Ph.D.As Chair / Two
As Member / One
13.Assigned Dept. Duties (check):
Chair / Graduate CoordinatorAssociate Chair / Undergraduate Coordinator
14.Assigned Activity: % Instructional% Research% Service (includes Admin.)
Summer 2012Fall 2012
Spring 2013
15.-31.Academic and Professional Activity: On a separate sheet or sheets please give the details of your activities, using the numbered headings in the order given below (omit inapplicable items):
15.Course development or other significant activities to improve teaching.
ENG 4133 Silent Film Philology Spring 2013
ENG 4133 Drive Spring 2013
While on sabbatical in Fall, 2013, I developed a number of other courses:
ENL6076 Deconstruction and New Media Theory Fall 2013
ENG 4133 70s Cinema Fall 2013
ENL 4??? Novel Networks Spring 2014 (Honors Seminar)
ENG 4133 Hamlet vs. Lear Spring 2014
ENL 4133 Shipwreck: Drown Before Reading Fall 2014
ENG 6075 Foucault, Biopolitics, Archive Fall 2014
ENG 4133 Under Sterne's Skin Spring 2015
All the above course websites are linked on this webpage:
At Professor Scott Newstok’s invitation, I taught part of a class in his course on Hamlet. The day I taught, Professor Newstok had assigned an essay I just published,"Hamlet's Hauntographology” (see above). As an experiment in ghost teaching, modeled on the Ghost in Hamlet, I called Scott on my cellphone, and hethen put me on speaker-phone in the classroom. Students asked me questions and I answered them. No calls were dropped, and Professor Newstok told me afterward that the students enjoyed the experiment and learned from it. (print out email exchange).
16.Recognition of teaching achievements during the past year
17.Publications between 3/16/12 and 3/15/13--give precise bibliographical listing. List only items published and creative works produced during the reporting period.
All publications were refereed.
Book chapters:
"Duly Noted or Off the Record? Sovereignty and the Secrecy of the Law in Cinema Secrets of the Law. Ed. Martha Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas, and Austin Sarat (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Stanford UP, 2012), 211-56. 20,266 words.
"Hamlet 's Hauntographology: Film Philology, Textual Faux-rensics, and Facsimiles" In A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation. Ed. Deborah Cartmell (Blackwell, 2012), 216-240. 12,500 words
Co-authored journal article:
"What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shak/x/espeare?" co-authored with Julian Yates, Renaissance Drama, n.s. 40 2012, 71-89. 8k words.
18.Papers in press or submitted for publication
"Shelf-Life: Biopolitics, the New Media Archive, and 'Paperlesss' People," in New Formations special issue on "Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net," Eds. Nicholas Thoburn and Says May. 2013 10,534 words.
“Read After Burning: Delivering Derrida’s Post . . . Posthumously (with Love and without such Limits)” in Glossator, special issue entitled "Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida" ed. Michael O'Rourke, Volume 7 (Fall 2012) 17,500 words.
“AppendiX (anneX) “la séance continue”: Derrida’s Quotation in German from Nietzsche’s Nachlass in The Post Card Translated into English, with Commentary.” In Glossator, special issue entitled "Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida" ed. Michael O'Rourke, Volume 7, (Fall 2012). 7,500 words.
“Writing the Endings of Cinema: Saving Film Authorship in the Cinematic Paratexts of Prospero’s Books, Taymor’s The Tempest, and The Secretof Kells. Ed. Judith Buchanan. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 6,000 words.
19.Work in progress (list title of the manuscript and the progress that you have made on it)
Richard Burt and Julian Yates, What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare? Now in production at Palgrave Macmillan Press, forthcoming July, 2013.. 90k words. 20 images.
20.Invited or referred papers and seminars presented (title, place, date) (See Number 28 below.)
21.Contributed papers given at meetings (title, place, date) (See Number 28 below.)
22.International activities (including Fulbright Awards, overseas teaching, lectures, etc.)
(See Number 28 below.)
23.Grants, contracts, and other external funding (title, agency, amount,dates, P.I., co-investigator):
a)Proposals submitted
b)Funding received during reporting period
c)Funding still in progress from previous year(s)
24.Fellowships and other recognition of scholarship (Guggenheim Fellowships, honors, awards, etc.) received during the reporting period
a)Proposals submitted and amount of the awards
b)Fellowships received during reporting period and amount of the awards
c)Fellowships still in progress from previous year(s)
d)Other honors, e.g. regional, national and international professional awards
25.Patents/copyrights issued or filed
26.Service for the Department (administration and committee work)
Observed Jimmy Newlin teaching
Observed Naaja Al-tabaa teaching
paper on Resident Evil for the Comics Conference.
27.Service for the College and University
University Service is Academic Freedom Committee
28.Service for the Profession (including leadership activities and membership on Executive Boards and Advisory Panels), including service to schools
As an internationally recognized senior scholar, I regard travel to conferences to which I have been invited to give a keynote paper as a form of service to the profession. I advise and mentor many of the younger scholars I meet. I regard book reviews the same way. They are more a form of service than they are publications. I therefore have placed by place under the heading of professional service rather than research. I reserve research for the publication of peer-reviewed books, journal articles, and book chapters.
Papers given:
Invited Speaker, “Drown Before Reading: Prospero’s Missing . . . Books,” September 21, 2012, Graduate Student Colloquium, Tufts University.
Invited speaker, "Anonymess," October 23, 2012, Medieval and Renaissance Group, New York University.
Invited keynote speaker Richard Burt delivered “ITA-TACKY-MASU SHAK-U-SPEARE” at theShakespeare International Forum conference on “Shakespeare and Popular Media,” Tokyo, Japan, December 2-3, 2012.
“The Last Mann: Unpacking the Doktor Faustus Archive and Posthumous Publication.” MLA Session No. 383, “The Archival Turn,” January 5, Boston, MA, 2013.
Organizer, “The Archival Turn” MLA Session No. 383, January 5, Boston, MA, 2013.
Co-organizer of ISA Session Global Shakespeares, ISA, Prague, Czech Republic, 2012.
Helped Tiffany place her book with MacFarland. She published it.
Letter of recommendation for Professor Beatrice Lei at National Taiwan University
Read and commented on all papers for seminar led by Pascale Abeischer as well as on all submissions for her special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin. Respondent for her special session at the ISA, July 2012.
29.Editorships and service on editorial boards of regional, national, or international publications
Book review of Guneratne book for Renaissance Quarterly (forthcoming)
Peer reviewed an essay for BSA Shakespeare journal.
Peer reviews and track changes edits for eight essays for a special issue of BSA Shakespeare; Read all essays and commented on them for Alex Huang’s special issue of Shakespeare BSA issue on Global Shakespeare
Peer reviewed an essay for Shakespeare Quarterly.
Reader for John Archer’s book for Palgrave.
Reader for Shakespeare and Bahktin manuscript for Palgrave.
A review of my last book appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1342-1344. Renaissance Quarterly is the central journal in my field. Here are excerpts from the review:
“Like much of Burt’s work, this book displays a dizzying array of ideas and information and speaks intelligently on all of it. Burt’s knowledge of his diverse texts and subjects in this book is minute and encyclopedic. Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media is extremely well-researched, and its weighty theoretical underpinnings are everywhere evident in his manifold citations of Freud, Genette, Derrida, Auerbach, Said, Benjamin, Mulvey, and several other usual suspects. . . . His synthesis and application of these theorists is often impressive. . . . There is no doubt that Burt is a master wordsmith. He is frequently wordy, but his playful approach to language is engaging. . . . Burt is a creative scholar known for pushing the boundaries in his work, and this book accomplishes that with panache. . . . Burt has done much fine work in this book: it is erudite, playful, and challenging.
30.Names and placement of students awarded graduate degrees under your direction during the past year
31.Other research or scholarly accomplishments you wish to report
32.Teaching evaluations for the 2012 calendar year (Spring 12, Sum 12, Fall 12). Provide evaluations by students and, where appropriate, by peers; these can be provided in the same format required by UF tenure and promotion guidelines.
I was on research leave Sporing, 2012 and on sabbatical Fall, 2012.
33.Chair Evaluation(Attach a copy of the annual letter of evaluation which you send to the faculty member, either tenured or untenured. The faculty member should have received the letter before signing below.)
34.Comments by faculty member (provide attachment if necessary) See attachment below)
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Signature of Faculty MemberDateSignature of Department ChairDate
(To be signed only after faculty member has reviewed all of material above.)
AFR 2012-2013
34. Fall 2012 Sabbatical Readings Exclusive of Those Listed in the Bibliographies of My Publications:
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1836)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Joel Rotenberg, The Lord Chandos Letter (original 1902; edition 2005)
Balzac, The Wild Ass’s Skin (reread)
Kafka, The Trial (new translation)
Kafka, The Castle (new translation)
Kafka, The Disappeared Person (Amerika) (new translation)
Kafka, “The Penal Colony” (new translation)
Kafka, “The Hunter Grachus” (new translation)
Kafka, “The Hunger Artist” (new translation)
Andreas Hysman, La-Bas
Andreas Huysman, Au rebours
Gerard de Nerval, The Salt Smugglers
Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Wragg (trans) Bibliomania, A Tale
Jean Paul Richter, Life of Quintus Fixlein (Thomas Carlyle trans.)
Andre Malraux, The Walnut Trees of Altenburg (Phoenix Fiction Series)
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics) (original 1837; edition 2007)
Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Bottle Imp,” in South Sea Tales (Oxford World's Classics) (edition 2008)
Edgar Allen Poe, The Goldbug, The Xgrab, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (reread)
Juan Luis Borges, “Death and the Compass”
Robert Musil, Peter Wortsman, trans. Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
Wilkie Collins, Toru SasakiMiss or Mrs? / The Haunted Hotel / The Guilty River (edition 2009)
Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopConfessions of an English Opium-Eater and The English Mail-Coach (Oxford 2009)
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics) (original 1860; edition 2008)
Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told… (original 1947; edition 1999)
Thomas Mann, The Genesis of Doktor Faustus: The Story of a Novel.
Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain (original 1924; edition 1996)
Thomas Mann Tonio Kroger, (edition 1999)
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (new translation)
Marcel Proust, Time Regained (new translation)
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, The Letter Killers Club (New York Review Books Classics) (edition 2011)
Hélène Cixous, Dream I Tell You (2007)
Hélène CixousHyperdream (2009)
Anton Chekhov, Ward Number Sixand Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) (edition 2008)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrea BarrettThe Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Modern Library Classics) (original 1888; edition 2010)
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures of Wisteria Lodge”
Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Nicolai Gogol, The Overcoat
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Jacques Derrida, Beast and the Sovereign Vol. 2
Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (revised translation, 2010)