Steven Z. Levine
Leslie Clark Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History of Art
Ph.D., Harvard University
Telephone: 610-526-5333
Email: slevine@brynmawr.edu
Thomas Hall - Room 232
Office hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 3-4 pm
Steven Z. Levine is Leslie Clark Professor of the Humanities. He has been
teaching at Bryn Mawr College since 1975.
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.
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