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Eric Prieto
Associate Professor of French
Affiliate in Comparative Literature
Educational Background
- New York University, 1989-97, MA 1991, Ph.D. 1997
- École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, 1994-5
- University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1984-8, BA 1988, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
- Université de Paris III, 1986-7
Academic Awards and Distinctions
- Faculty Career Development Award, UCSB, 1999, 2002
- Dean's Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities, NYU 1997
- Bourse Chateaubriand, 1994-95
- Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, 1988-89
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century literature and Theory
- Francophone Literature and culture; Postcolonial Theory
- Music and literature
- Narrative Poetics
- Aesthetics
Selected Publications
- Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
- "Stellio and the Beginnings of the Biguine." Nottingham French Studies." Vol. 43. No. 1, Spring 2004. 30-38
- "Rhetoric of the Belleville Novel." Sites: The Journal of 20th-Century/ Contemporary French Studies, Vol 8. No. 1, January 2004. 31-41.
- "Landscaping Identity in Contemporary Caribbean Literature." Studies in Francophone and Post-colonial Cultures. Ed. Kamal Salhi. Lanham (Maryland): Lexington Books, 2003. 141-152.
- "Des extrêmes qui se rejoignent: Solipsisme, réalisme, et le récit beckettien." French Forum, Vol. 27. No. 2, Spring 2002. 99-116."
- Speech Melody and the Evolution of the Minimalist Aesthetic in Steve Reich's The Cave." Circuit, musiques contemporaines, Vol 12 No. 2, 2002. 21-42.
Work in Progress
- Currently working on a book on the poetics of place in modernist literature