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Cinema Studies Affiliated Faculty Robert Rushing Titles Associate Professor of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Address 4080 Foreign Languages Building MC-176 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illlinois 61801 phone: (217) 333-3390 fax: (217) 244-8430 email: rrushing@illinois.edu Personal web page (Comparative Literature) Education Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998 M.A. University of Michigan, 1994 B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991 Major Research interests 19th and 20th century Italian literature Italian film Detective fiction and travel narrative Literary and critical theory Selected Publications "Traveling By Metonymy: Ugo Foscolo's 'A Zacinto,'" forthcoming, Annali d'Italianistica (2002). "'La sua tragica incompiutezza': Anxiety, Mis-Recognition and Ending in Gadda's Pasticciaccio," MLN (Italian issue, Winter 2001). "The Horizon of Literature: Epistemic Closure in Calvino's I nostri antenati" in Forum Italicum, Spring (1999): 213-23. "Il cristallo e il mare: L'enumeración caótica e l'epistemologia in Calvino e Gadda" in Forum Italicum, Fall (1997): 407-22. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unit for Cinema Studies rleskosk@illinois.edu 5.16.2008 rjl