STEVEN
Z. LEVINE
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Personal Statement:
Steven
Z. Levine has been teaching since 1975 at Bryn Mawr where
he has directed 24 four dissertations.
His
book, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth
of the Self, was published by the University of Chicago Press
in 1994, and a psychoanalytical postscript was published in 1996
in American Imago, "Virtual Narcissus: On the Mirror
Stage with Monet, Lacan, and Me." Recent essays on art history
and psychoanalysis include "October's Lacan, or In the Beginning
Was the Void," in Lacan in America, ed. Jean-Michel
Rabaté (New York: Other Press, 2000); "Mutual Facing:
A Memoir of Friedom," in Refracting Vision: Essays on the
Writings of Michael Fried, ed. Jill Beaulieu, Mary Roberts,
and Toni Ross (Sydney: Power Publications, 2000); "Between
Art History and Psychoanalysis: I/Eye-ing Monet with Freud and
Lacan," in The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects
in Contemporary Perspective, ed. Mark A. Cheetham, Michael
Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998); "Alter Egos--Close Encounters of the Paranoid Kind:
W. R. D. Fairbairn, Salvador Dali, and Me," in Fairbairn,
Then and Now, ed. Neil Skolnick and David E. Scharff (Hillsdale,
NJ: Analytic Press, 1998); and "Manet's Man Meets the Gleam
of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel," in 12 Views of Manet's "Bar",
ed. Bradford R. Collins (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1996). For this last essay Mr. Levine was awarded Third Prize for
Bad Writing by the international journal Philosophy and Literature
in 1998.
He is currently preparing two books, Monet and Method: Essays 1975-2000 and Face
Painting: Self-Portraiture and Self-Representation in France from Montaigne
and Poussin to Duchamp and Lacan. For the latter he received a John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and will be on sabbatical leave in 2003-04.
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