Matthew Spellberg
- Comparative Literature
Matthew Spellberg studies dreaming, in literature and beyond, with an emphasis on the subjective aspects of dreamt experience, including forms of attention, physical possibilities and impossibilities within dream-life, and the nature of social interaction in dreaming. He has studied dreams in philosophy, anthropology and cognitive science. Other interests include the modernist novel, Renaissance poetry, and the history of opera and theater. He is an active translator from French, German and Polish. He is also involved in Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative.
Education:
B.A. Harvard University
M.A. Harvard University
Selected Publications:
- "Child of Paradise," The Yale Review (forthcoming, January 2013).
- "Feeling Dreams in Romeo and Juliet," English Literary Renaissance (forthcoming, February 2013).
- "The Most Scientific of Sentences: On Writing in the English Baroque," The Harvard Book Review, Spring 2008.
- "Pygmalion's Wife: Maria Callas, YouTube, and the Memory of Film," The Harvard Advocate, Spring 2008.
Translations:
- Hubert Cancik, "The Awareness of Cultural Diversity in Ancient Greece and Rome," in Mihai Spariosu, Jörn Rüsen, eds., Exploring Humanity - Intercultural Perspectives on Humanisms, Göttingen: V&R Press, 2012. Translated from German.
- Sybille Krämer, “Trace, Writing, Diagram,” lecture delivered at Syddansk University, Denmark, May, 2012. Translated from German.
- Grégory Chambon, “Spaces of Measures and Numbers in Upper Mesopotamia,” in J. Eidem and E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, eds., Constituent, Confederate and Conquered Space: the Case of the Mittani Transition, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter (forthcoming). Translated from French.
- Bertille Lyonnet and Xavier Faivre, “The Settlement Pattern of the Western Upper Khabur from the Old Babylonian Period to the End of the Mitanni Era,” in J. Eidem and E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, eds., Constituent, Confederate and Conquered Space: the Case of the Mittani Transition, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter (forthcoming). Translated from French.
- Cécile Michel, “Central Anatolia in the 19th and 18th Centuries BC,” in J. Eidem and E. Cancik-Kirschbaum, eds., Constituent, Confederate and Conquered Space: the Case of the Mittani Transition, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter (forthcoming). Translated from French.
