Jerry Farber, Professor

office: AL-272
phone: (619)-594-5414
email: jfarber@mail.sdsu.edu

Jerry Farber teaches courses in both comparative literature and English, and has recently been teaching a course in European children's fantasy fiction. His books include A Field Guide to the Aesthetic Experience, and he has published essays in a number of scholarly journals. Among his recent essays are "Teaching and Presence" (Pedagogy, Spring 2008); "Toward a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Humor in Literature and the other Arts" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Winter 2007); and "What Is Literature? What Is Art? Integrating Essence and History" (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Fall 2005). His current research interests include literary theory, Proust, aesthetics, humor theory,and the teaching of literature.

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