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Curriculum Vitae and Selected List of Publications of Steven Totosy de Zepetnek Prof.Dr., Department of Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, D-06110 Halle, Germany. <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> 49-345-55-23632; editor, *CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture* and Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press, 1207 SCCE-E, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA. <clcweb@purdue.edu>; home address 8 Sunset Road, Winchester, Massachusetts 01890 USA. 1-781-729-1680

biographical abstract: Steven Totosy works in the humanities and social sciences in comparative culture and media studies, communication studies, diaspora, exile, postcolonial, and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, English, French, German, Central European, US, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media scholarship and knowledge management, and editing. At the University of Alberta 1984-2000, since 2000 he resides in Boston where he lectured in communication and media studies at Northeastern University, and at present he is professor of media and communication studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is author, editor, or co-editor of some twenty books and author of over 150 articles, book chapters, bibliographies, and encyclopedia entries. Works also published in French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Polish, and Spanish translation. Recent books include Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (Rodopi, 1998), edited volumes include Comparative Central European Culture (Purdue UP, 2002) and Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies (Purdue UP, 2002). Editor (founding) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> and series editor of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>, both with Purdue UP. His book Comparative Culture and Media Studies is forthcoming in 2004. Fluent written and oral English, German, French, and Hungarian, reading knowledge of Latin, limited Spanish, and Russian. Secondary school education in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, university education in Canada, terminal degree Ph.D. in comparative literature. Citizenship: Canadian. Married to Joanne E. Totosy de Zepetnek née Toms (Ph.D. pharmacology & neuroscience), children Chantal P. (1982) and Julia O. (1984).

functions and degrees: Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 2002-, lecturer, associate director, and professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta 1984-2000, associate editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (1989-1997), editor of monograph series, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purde.edu/library/books.html> (1989-1997), editor (founding) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> (1999-) Purdue UP and editor of monograph series, Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> (2001-), visiting and guest professorships and lectures at universities in Europe, North America, and Asia, advisory board member of scholarly journals, president, vice-president, board member, and executive committee member of national and international scholarly associations, team and individual research grants and awards, organization of national and international conferences. Ph.D. in comparative literature (University of Alberta 1989, dissertation Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System), B.Ed. in history and English (University of Ottawa 1984), M.A. in comparative literature (Carleton University 1983), B.A. in history and German (University of Western Ontario 1980). Complete Curriculum Vitae with full list of publications <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv(complete).html>.

    1998. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 18. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 (pbk), 299 pages, bibliography, and index.
    1997. 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 (pbk), 217 pages.
    1993. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function ofPrefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Siegen University NIKOL Series vol. 15. Braunschweig-Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 (hard cover), 188 pages, index, and bibliography.
    1993. A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára / Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Szeged: Attila József University, 1993. ISBN 963-481-914-1 (pbk), 280 pages, 91 illustrations, bibliography, index.
    1989. Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1989. ISBN 0-315-556-307.

    2003. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., Michael Ondaatje. Canadian Writers Series. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2003. Forthcoming.
    2002. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 2 <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55753-290-7 (pbk), ISBN 1-55753-288-5 (ebook), 380 pages, bibliography, index.
    2002. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., Comparative Central European Culture. Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 1
<http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55753-240-0 (pbk), 217 pages, bibliography, index.
    2000. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed. Histories and Concepts of Comparative Literature. Thematic issue, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 2.4 (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb00-4/contents00-4.html>.
    1999. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Milan V. Dimic, and Irene Sywenky, eds., Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Bibliothèque de Littérature Comparée 5. Paris: Honoré Champion<http://www.honorechampion.com/>, 1999. ISBN 2-85203-605-3 / ISSN 1262-2850 (hard cover), 930 pages, bibliography.
    1998. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung, eds., Canadian Culture and Literatures, and a Taiwan Perspective. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. ISBN 0-921490-10-0 (pbk), 320 pages, bibliography.
    1997. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky, eds., The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-08-9 (pbk), 605 pages, bibliography, and index.
    1997. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay, eds., East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-09-7 (pbk), 383 pages, bibliography.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., International Perspectives on Reading Special Issue of Reader: Essays in
Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological U, ISSN 0742-9681) 35-36 (1996): 1-120.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., History of the Book and the Study of Literature Thematic Cluster in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association, ISSN 0319-051X) 23.1 (1996): 207-58.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature: Theory and Application. Ed. Margarida L. Losa, Isménia de Sousa, Gonçalo Vilas-Boas. Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada / Afrontamento, 1996. ISBN 972-36-0420-5 (pbk). 273-375.
    1995. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew, eds., Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations thematic issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association, ISSN 0319-051X) 22.3-4 (1995): 399-932, bibliography, and index.

    2004. with Carolin Fischer, "German-language Erotic Literature of the Twentieth Century and to 2002" [incl. the other arts and new media]. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. Ed. Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips. New York: Routledge, 2004. Forthcoming.
    2004. "Erotic Literature in Hungarian" [incl. the other arts and new media]. Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. Ed. Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips. New York: Routledge, 2004. Forthcoming.
    2003. "hybride welten und mehrfach gebindestricht." Auf der Suche nach hybriden Lebensgeschichten. Ed. Elka Tschernokoshewa and Marija Juric-Pahor. Hybride Welten 3. Münster: Waxmann, 2003. Forthcoming.
    2003. "Los estudios culturales comparados y el estudio de la cultura centro-europea: teoría y aplicación." Trans. Francisco Chico Rico. Estudios culturales. Ed. Francisco Chico Rico. Thematic Issue of Teoría/Crítica: Revista publicada por el Seminario de Teoría de la Literature y Literatura Comparada de la Universidad de Alicante 7 (2000-2001): Forthcoming.
    2002. with Reinhold Viehoff, Clemens Seyfried, and Konstanze Wunneburg, "A Comparative Analysis of Media Consumption and Cultural Participation in the US and Germany Today (work-in-progress)." IGEL 2002 Proceedings (2002):
< http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/IGEL2002/Proceedings.htm> (<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/IGEL2002/Totosy.pdf>).
    2002. "From Comparative Literature Today Toward Comparative Cultural Studies." Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002. 235-67.
    2002. "Comparative Cultural Studies and the Study of Central European Culture." Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002. 1-32.
    2002. "Pre-1900 German-Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/earlygermancanadian.html>.
    2002. "The Study of Literature and Culture Online: Theory and Application." English 475: Literature and Hypertext. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Athabasca: Athabasca U, 2002.
    2001. "The New Knowledge Management: Online Research and Publishing in the Humanities." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 3.1 (2001): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-1/totosy01.html>.
    2001. "Comparative Cultural Studies and the Study of Translation: Concepts and Terminology." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2001):< http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/translationstudy.html>.
    2001. "Constructivism and Comparative Cultural Studies." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2001):
< http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/totosy(constructivism).html>.
    2001. "A Manifesto for Gender Responsibility and Equality in Every-Day Life." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2001): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/gendermanifesto.html>.
    2000-01. "Toward a Framework of Audience Studies." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2000):
< http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/audiencestudies.html>.
    2000-01. "Definitions for the Study of Communication and Culture." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/definitions(communicationstudies1).html>.
    2001. "Audience Studies," "Comparative Cultural Studies," and "Systemic and Empirical Approach." Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Comp. Robert Drislane and Gary Parkinson. Edmonton: Athabasca U and ICAAP: International Consortium of Advancement of Academic Publication, 2001. <http://datadump.icaap.org/cgi-bin/glossary/SocialDict/SocialDict>.
    2001. "Comparative Cultural Studies and Constructivism." Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 15.1 (2001): 38-60.
    2000. "English-language Memoir Literature by Central European Jewish Women." Mnemosyne: ZEIT-Schrift für jüdische Kultur 26 (2000): 97-108.
    2000. "The Systemic and Empirical Approach, the Theory of In-between Peripherality, and Their Applications to Diaspora and Ethnic Literatures and Cultures." Siegfried J. Schmidt Festschrift. Ed. Achim Barsch, Gebhard Rusch, and Reinhold Viehoff. Halle: U of Halle-Wittenberg (1999-): <http://www.sjschmidt.net/konzepte/texte/totosy1.htm>.
    1999. "Toward a Comparative Cultural Studies." Primerjalna knjizevnost (Comparative Literature) (Slovene Comparative Literature Association) 22.2 (1999): 85-102.
    1999. "From Comparative Literature Today toward Comparative Cultural Studies." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature andCulture 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/totosy99.html>.
    1999. "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.
    1999. "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 the Humanities. Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen U, 1999. 117-24.
    1998. "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: Rodopi, 1998. 231-40.
    1998. "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.
    1998. "Social Discourse and Cultural Participation in a Multicultural Society." Canadian Culture and Literatures: And a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, U of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua U, 1998. 57-69.

    2002. "Selected and Annotated Bibliography of German-Canadian Literature and Criticism." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/germancanadianliterature(bibliography).html>.
    2002. "Selected Bibliography for the Study of Central European Culture." Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002. 189-206. Online version at
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeanculture(bibliography).html>.
    2001. with Steven Aoun and Wendy C. Nielsen, "Bibliography for Work in Comparative Cultural Studies (History, Theory, Method)." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2001-):
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/comparativeculturalstudies(biblio).html>.
    1998. "Selected Bibliography of Theoretical and Critical Works about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1998. "Selected Bibliography of Studies about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." Canadian Culture and Literatures. And a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, U of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua U, 1998. 289-304.