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curriculum vitae and list of selected publications of Steven Totosy de Zepetnek *addresses: Prof.Dr., Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, D-06110 Halle, Germany, e-mail <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> phone 49-(0)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, e-mail <clcweb@purdue.edu>/ residence 8 Sunset Road, Winchester (at Boston), Massachusetts 01890 USA, phone 1-781-729-1680

bioprofile / selected publications: books ¤ edited volumes ¤ journal articles & book chapters ¤ bibliographies ¤ selected syllabi / current projects

bioprofile: Steven Totosy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship are in comparative culture and media studies (theory and application), communication studies, comparative literature, postcolonial and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, audience studies, English, French, German, Central European, US, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media and knowledge management, and editing. Totosy is with a B.A. in history and German from the University of Western Ontario (1980), an M.A. in comparative literature from Carleton University (1982), a B.Ed. in history and English from the University of Ottawa (1984), and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Alberta (1989). Teaching at the University of Alberta Department of Comparative Literature 1984-2000 as lecturer and professor where he also served as assistant and associate director of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature 1989-97, since 2000 residing in Boston where he lectured in communication and media studies at Northeastern University 2000-01, Totosy is now professor of comparative media and culture studies <http://www.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/institut/team/totosy/default.shtml> at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany <http://www.uni-halle.de/MLU/index_e.htm>, 2002-. An author of numerous papers and books published on both sides of the Atlantic and in Asia, most recently Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (Rodopi, 1998) and the edited volumes Comparative Central European Culture (Purdue UP, 2002) and Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies (Purdue UP, 2002), Totosy's next book is Comparative Culture and Media Studies, forthcoming in 2005 with Purdue University Press, volume 10 in the series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>. Assistant and associate editor 1989-1997 of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, editor 1989-97 of the University of Alberta Research Institute for Comparative Literature monograph series of comparative literature <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purde.edu/library/books.html>, Totosy is editor (founding) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> 1999- and editor of the monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>, 2001-, both published by Purdue University Press. Totosy has also taught and lectured as visiting and guest professor at universities in Europe, North America, and Asia, and he is active as advisory board member of scholarly journals, as president, vice-president, board member, and as executive committee member of national and international scholarly associations. He has received team and individual research grants and awards and has organized numerous national and international conferences. For the complete Curriculum Vitae with a full list of publications link to <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv(complete).html>.

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selected publications

books (single authored 1989-)
    1998. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 18. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 (pbk), 299 pages, bibliography, index.
    1997. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, 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. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek,The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function ofPrefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Siegen University NIKOL Series vol. 15. Braunschweig: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 (hard cover), 188 pages, index, bibliography.
    1993. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, 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. Updated version online at <http://www.totosy.com>.
    1989. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1989. Ph.D. diss. ISBN 0-315-556-307.

edited volumes (selected 1995-)
    2003. Michael Ondaatje. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Canadian Writers Series. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2003. Forthcoming.
    2002. Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. 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), 365 pages, bibliography, index.
    2002. Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. 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. Histories and Concepts of Comparative Literature. Ed.Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic issue, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 2.4 (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb00-4/contents00-4.html>.
    1999. 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 5. Paris: Honoré Champion<http://www.honorechampion.com/>, 1999. ISBN 2-85203-605-3 / ISSN 1262-2850 (hard cover), 930 pages, bibliography.
    1998. Canadian Culture and Literatures, and a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. 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. 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. ISBN 0-921490-08-9 (pbk), 605 pages, bibliography, and index.
    1997. East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-09-7 (pbk), 383 pages, bibliography.
    1996. International Perspectives on Reading. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Special issue of Reader: Essays in
Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological U, ISSN 0742-9681) 35-36 (1996): 1-120.
    1996. History of the Book and the Study of Literature. Ed.Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Cluster in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association, ISSN 0319-051X) 23.1 (1996): 207-58.
    1996. The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature: Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic section in Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Ed. Margarida L. Losa, Isménia de Sousa, and Gonçalo Vilas-Boas. Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada / Afrontamento, 1996. ISBN 972-36-0420-5 (pbk). 273-375.
    1995. Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew. Thematic issue of the 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.

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publications in journals and book chapters (selected 1998-)
    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. Series 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>.
    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 and Culture 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. Thematic issue of the Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities. Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 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 University, 1998. 57-69.

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bibliographies (selected 1998-)
    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.

current projects (selected 2003-)
    CECMS: Comparative Central and East European Culture and Media Studies <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/cecms.html>
    The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe, an international conference, August 2003, Targu Mures, Romania <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeconference(2003).html>
    Comparative Media and Culture Studies 1: Gender and Media and Comparative Media and Culture Studies 2: Culture Policy and the Administration of Culture, workshop panels at The Unifying Aspect of Cultures, an international conference, November 2003, Vienna, Austria <http://www.inst.at>

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