Joshua Wilner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, City College and the Graduate Center. Professor Wilner received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1980. Following an initial appointment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined the City College Department of English in 1985 as a specialist in Romanticism and critical theory. From 1991 to 1994 he served as Chair of the Department, and from 1996 to 2000 as Director of the Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts. He has published essays and reviews in such journals as MLN, Genre, Diacritics, and Studies in Romanticism, and his book Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization (Hopkins, 2000) was the recipient of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli annual book award of the International Conference on Romanticism. He is also the translator of Jacques Derrida's Shibboleth: for Paul Celan. In 1994 he received City College's Outstanding Teacher Award, and in 2000 he was appointed to the doctoral faculties in English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His current book project, Lyric, Prose, Modernity, is a study of experimental prose from Rousseau to Gertrude Stein. Other research interests include relations between literature and psychoanalysis, and the implications of chaos theory for literary study.
