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B. Safer (M.A.,Ph.D.,Case Western Reserve Univ.)
is professor of English at the University of Delaware.
She is author of "Mocking the Age: The Later
Novels of Philip Roth," forthcoming SUNY
Press; co-editor with Ben Siegel, Saul Bellow
As Comic Writer; Vol. 19. no.1. (2003): special
Issue Saul Bellow Journal; The Contemporary American
Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis,
and Kesey. Wayne State UP, 1988; co-editor with
Thomas Erskine, John Milton:
L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1970). She has published
articles in such journals as Studies in American
Jewish Literature, Studies in the Novel, Critique:
Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Studies in American
Fiction, Saul Bellow Journal, Melus, Milton Studies;
her essays also appear in collections such as
Philip Roth: Modern Critical Views, Ed. Harold
Bloom, The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century
American Short Story, Ed.Blanche H. Gelfant.,
and American Literary Dimensions. Her next book
will be "The Comic Imagination in Contemporary
Jewish American Fiction: The Work of Steve Stern,
Allegra Goodman, Ann Roiphe, and Thane Rosenbaum."
Awards include NEH Summer Stipend (1983); Fulbright
to France (1990); Univ. of Delaware Excellence
in Teaching Award (1993); Fellow in the Center
For Advanced Studies (1997-98); Distinguished
Professor at Lyon III, France (winter sessions
1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995). She has presented
papers at MLA, Amer. Lit. Association, International
Society for Humor Studies, as well as the Sorbonne,
Universite of Lyon, Universite Orleans, University
of Valencia. She offers courses in Modern and
Postmodern American Literature, Twentieth-Century
American Novel, Critical Studies in the Novel,
and the poetry and prose of John Milton. Service
includes President, College of Arts & Science
Senate (1985-87);Chairperson, Committee on Academic
Freedom (1977-78); member (1976-77); Chairperson,
Nominating Committee (1976-77); President, American
Humor Studies Association, MLA; Vice President,
1996;1997; Pres., Saul Bellow Society, Amer.Lit.Assoc.
(1992-1995; Pres., American Humor Studies Association,
MLA (1997); American Humor Studies Association,
MLA; Vice President, 1996; President, 1997.
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