Long version of the CV and list of publications: <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>.
Home Address: 8 Sunset Road, Winchester, MA 01890. Phone: 781-729-1680,
E-mail: <totosy@lib.purdue.edu>
Degrees held: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (1989), Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Canada; Bachelor of Education (1984), English as a Second Language and History, Faculty of Education, Université d’Ottawa, Canada; Master of Arts in Comparative Literature (1984), School of Comparative Literature, Carleton University, Canada; Bachelor of Arts (1980), German and History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Western Ontario, Canada; Languages: Fluent written and oral English, German, French, and Hungarian; reading knowledge of Latin; limited Spanish and Russian; Citizenship: Canadian (SIN 469-016-380). US SSN 015-84-9227.
Biographical Abstract: Steven Totosy's areas of interest and publications are in the humanities and social sciences, in culture, literature, and history ranging from theoretical work, European and North American culture, diaspora, exile, and ethnic minority writing, communication studies, comparative cultural studies, postcolonial studies, literature, film and literature, and bibliographies to new media scholarship and knowledge management, editing, etc. At present residing in Massachusetts, he taught at the University of Alberta 1984-2000. He is author or editor of twenty books and over one hundred articles, book chapters, bibliographies, and encyclopedia entries published on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere. His work is also published in French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Polish, and Spanish translation. His most recent single-authored book is Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998). His recent edited volumes include Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999) and Comparative Central European Culture is forthcoming by Purdue University Press in 2001. He is founding and current editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, published by Purdue University Press at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/>.
Selected Publications:
Books (selected; single authored and edited)
Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application.
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 18. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi,
1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3.
Wen hsüe yen chiu ti ho fa hua - Chen
t’i hua ho ching yen chu i wen hsüe yü wen hua yen chiu fang
fa (Legitimizing the Study of Literature. A New Pragmatism:
The Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i.
Peking University Academic Lectures Series, Vol. 7. Beijing: Peking University
Press, 1997. ISBN 7-301-03482-2.
The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric
and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas.
Siegen University NIKOL series vol. 15. Braunschweig-Wiesbaden: Friedr.
Vieweg & Sohn, 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7.
Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice
/ La Littérature comparée à l’heure actuelle. Théories
et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek,
Milan V. Dimic, and Irene Sywenky. Bibliothèque de littérature
comparée 23. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. ISBN 2-85203-605-3.
Selected Publications in Learned journals and Collected Volumes:
200-01. "The Study of Literature and Culture Online:
Theory and Application." Distance Education Course, English 475: Literature
and Hypertext, Athabasca University, Work-in-progress at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/culturestudyonline.html>.
2001. "The New Knowledge Management: Online Research
and Publishing in the Humanities."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature
and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 3.1 (2001): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-1/totosy01.html>.
"Toward a Framework of Audience Studies."
CLCWeb:
Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library)
(2001-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/audiencestudies.html>.
"English-language Memoir Literature by Central European
Jewish Women." Mnemosyne: ZEIT-Schrift für jüdische Kultur
26 (2000): 97-108.
"An Application of the Systemic and Empirical Framework
in Diaspora and Ethnic Studies." Siegfried J. Schmidt Festschrift
Home Page. Ed. Achim Barsch, Gebhard Rusch, and Reinhold Viehoff.
Halle: University of Halle-Wittenberg (1999-): <http://www.schmidt.uni-halle.de/konzepte/texte/totosy1.htm>.
"Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, 'History,'
and the Other." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb
Journal 1.4 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-4/totosy99-2.html>.
"From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative
Cultural Studies." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A
WWWeb Journal 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>.
"Toward a Comparative Cultural Studies."
Primerjalna
knjizevnost (Comparative Literature) 22.2 (1999):
85-102.
"Verso una storia degli approcci sistemici ed empirici
nello studio della letteratura e della cultura." Trans. Sonia Di Loreto.
L’esperienza
del testo. Ed. Aldo Nemesio. Roma: Meltemi, 1999. 21-40.
"Literary and Filmic Representations of the Titanic
Disaster." Poseidon and the Muses: Proceedings of the International
Conference on Arts, Literature and the Ocean. Ed. Ling Chung, Chen-wan
Ting, Chung-wen Kung, I-chun Wang, Hsiao-yu Sun, and Yen Chen. Sun Yat-sen
Journal of Humanities Series No. 4. Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts,
National Sun Yat-sen University, 1999. 117-24.
"Configurations of Postcoloniality and National
Identity: Inbetween Peripherality and Narratives of Change."
The
Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association23
(1999): 89-110.
"Ethnizität und Zentrum/Peripherie. Deutschland,
(östliches) Mitteleuropa und das kanadische Modell."
Kultur,
Identität, Europa. Über die Schwierigkeiten und Möglichkeiten
einer Konstruktion. Ed. Reinhold Viehoff and Rien T. Segers. Frankfurt:
Suhrkamp, 1999. 425-41.
"An Introduction to Comparative Literature Now,
à l’heure actuelle." Comparative Literature Now: Theorie and
Practice / La Littérature comparée à l’heure actuelle.
Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy
de Zepetnek, Milan V. Dimic, and Irene Sywenky. Bibliothèque de
Littérature Comparée 5. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999.
13-18.
"Social Discourse and the Problematics of Theory,
Culture, Media, and Audience." Language and Beyond: Actuality and
Virtuality in the Relations between Word, Image and Sound. Ed.
Paul Joret and Aline Remael. Amsterdam-Atlanta,GA: Rodopi, 1998. 231-40.
"La literatura comparada y la aproximación
sistémica a la literatura y la cultura." Literatura Comparada.
Principios y métodos. Ed. María José Vega
and Neus Carbonell. Madrid: Gredos, 1998. 215-29.
"Mimetics and Narration in Berlin Alexanderplatz
(Döblin and Faßbinder)." Parodia, pastiche, mimetismo.
Ed. Paola Mildonian. Roma: Bulzoni, 1997. 317-29.
"The Importance of Cultural Dialogue: A Case Study
of Ethnic Minority Writing and Cultural Participation in Canada."
Cultural
Dialogue and Misreading. Ed. Mabel Lee and Meng Hua. University
of Sidney World Literature Series Vol. 1. Sydney: Wild Peony and U of Hawaii
P, 1997. 367-76.
"Reading Pornographic Literature: The Author and
Gender Appropriation." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature
and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy
de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative
Literature, University of Alberta, and Siegen: Institute for Empirical
Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. 515-25.
"New Developments in Neuroscience and Brain Research
with Reference to Language Acquisition and the Teaching of Foreign Languages."
Selected
Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on English Teaching.
Ed. Johanna Katchen and Yiu-nam Leung. Taipei: Crane, 1997. 283-89.
"The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature
and Interdisciplinarity: Some Pragmatic Aspects." Language and Literature
Today. Ed. Neide de Faria. Brasília: University of Brasília,
1996. Vol. 2, 873-79.