Albert Wachtel

  • Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies

With 麻豆原创 Since: 1974
Field Group: Creative Studies
Email: albert_wachtel@pitzer.edu
Office Hours: Contact Professor
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo
BA, Queens College

James Joyce; Shakespeare; epic and scripture; the ancient world; fiction; creative non-fiction, drama and fiction writing; tragedy; theory of literature; 20th-century novel.

World in a Nutshell: The Short Story (CREA25)

Creative Writing and Creative Thought (CREA31)

Greek Tragedy in Translation (CREA120)

The Bible and Homer (CREA124)

Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, Narrative Poetry. (CREA159a)

Shakespeare: Tragedy and Beyond (CREA159b)

Shakespeare and Film (CREA159c)

Modernism (ENGL191)

Fictions of James Joyce (CREA193a)

Yeats and Magic (CREA193)

Vision Beyond Thought: Analogical Forms in Sophocles (CREA198)

Wachtel, Albert, 鈥淭he Basement,鈥� Broadkill Review, November 2017.

Wachtel, Jonathan and Albert Wachtel, 鈥淲e Made Allies of Our WW II Enemies; The Same Can Happen with North Korea,鈥� BuzzFeed News, September 28, 2017.

Critical Insights: James Joyce. Amenia, NJ: Salem Press, 2013.

鈥淯nter Den Linden (Under the Linden),鈥� in Erwin Plachetka, ed., Eine deutsche Geschichte:  Anthologie. Ganderkesee, Germany: EPLA-Verlag, 2012. Translated from the English by Daniel Becker.

Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Salem Press, 2011.

鈥淢辞诲别谤苍颈蝉迟蝉,鈥� Critical Survey of Poetry, 4th Edition. Ed Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Salem Press, 2011.

鈥淏eyond Subjectivity鈥攖he Toddler Stephen Theory and the Quest for Truth,鈥� in Albert Wachtel, ed., Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2011.

鈥淛oyce, Byron and the Fall of Seraphim,鈥� in Albert Wachtel, ed., Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2011.

鈥淩appaccini鈥檚 Daughter鈥� and reprints of 鈥淒ubliners,鈥� 鈥淓lectra鈥� [of Sophocles], 鈥淥resteia,鈥� and 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf,鈥� Masterplots (September 2011).

鈥淏ridging Worlds: Zulu Poet Mazisi Kunene鈥擣rom Epic Authenticity to Modern Science,鈥� invited lecture, Claremont Discourse Lecture Series, The Claremont Colleges Libraries, Claremont, CA, April 2012.

鈥淒UBLINERS and the Fittest,鈥� seminar, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, May 16-June 10.

鈥淔rom Conventional to Telling Metaphor鈥擵erse to Poetry,鈥� presented at Scribblerus Salons, Berkeley, CA, February 18, 2010.

鈥淧erformance as Critical Vision: Film as Analysis,鈥� presented at The Shakespeare Club, Claremont, CA, February 8, 2010

Member, Writer鈥檚 Guild, a distinction granted to writers whose work has been performed in film or on television, 2011.