Curriculum Vitae
Full Name
Esther Freinkel
First Name
Lisa
Last Name
Freinkel
Title
Associate Professor English and Comparative Literature
Phone
541-346-1221
Office
372B Oregon Hall, 5256 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-5256
Office Hours
Fall Term:
Interests
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, theology and contemplative studies, digital humanities, history of philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
Profile Section
Publications
Publications include Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets (Columbia, 2002) and numerous articles on a broad range of topics from fetishism to usury and early modern encounters with Buddhist Asia. Her writings address authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Dante, Luther, Kant, and the 13th-century Japanese monk Dogen Zenji.
Statement
Teaching and research interests include contemporary mindfulness, poetics, Shakespeare, digital humanities, comparative religion, and philosophy. Freinkel's current book project explores themes from the history of philosophy and the history of optics, and is entitled Reflections on the Precious Mirror.
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