Expertise

Jared Stark received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Before joining the Eckerd faculty in 2004, he held visiting appointments at Cornell University and New York University. His teaching and research focus on interdisciplinary approaches to modernism, the history of the novel, literary criticism, postcolonial literatures, Holocaust studies, and bioethics. His articles have dealt with topics including Edith Wharton’s fiction, the history of photography, and the literature of the Holocaust. His book, A Death of One’s Own: Literature, Law, and the Right to Die, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2018. He has also published, with Alina Bacall-Zwirn, No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn (Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1999) and, with co-editor Michael G. Levine, Claude Lanzmann after Shoah, a special volume of Yale French Studies (2022).

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Honors & Awards

Robert A. Staub Distinguished Teacher Award
Eckerd College (United States, St. Petersburg), 2022
Lloyd W. Chapin Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Art
Eckerd College (United States, St. Petersburg), 2022

Organizational Affiliations

Letters Collegium, Eckerd College

Comparative Literature Discipline, Letters Collegium, Eckerd College

Literature Discipline, Letters Collegium, Eckerd College

Education

Comparative Literature
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University (United States, New Haven)