In celebration of her retirement—and four decades of scholarship and teaching at UCI—the Department of Comparative Literature is pleased to announce a Symposium for Gabriele Schwab.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1010
Schwab’s students and colleagues, past and present, will share talks on Schwab’s scholarly corpus, reflections on her teaching and mentorship, and creative presentations inspired by her work. A detailed schedule is forthcoming. A light breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception will be provided.
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Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature Gabriele Schwab first came to UCI in 1983 as a Visiting Professor and joined the School of Humanities as ladder-rank faculty member in 1986. She has held joint faculty appointments in the departments of Anthropology, English, European Languages and Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies and has taught in the Humanities Core Program and at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Among her many awards, she has received Heisenberg and Guggenheim Fellowships. Her many field-traversing publications include Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (Columbia UP, 2023), Radioactive Ghosts: On Nuclear Ecologies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 2012), Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (Columbia UP, 2010), The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Indiana UP, 1996), and Subjects Without Selves (Harvard UP, 1994). She has taught and mentored countless undergraduate and graduate students at UCI.