Adele Kudish

Associate Professor of English at BMCC

Currently an Associate Professor of English at BMCC, I teach composition and writing-intensive literature courses (World Lit I and II, Introduction to Literary Studies, and a Special Topics course on Literature and Fashion). My research interests are the history of the European novel, women’s fiction, proto-psychological fiction, and narratology.

Contact

212-220-8000 x5224

Publications

  • The European Roman d’Analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 (forthcoming).

  • “’[La] plus jolie [de] toutes celles qui avaient jamais été écrites’: Madame de Thémines’s Letter as Proto-Psychological Fiction in La Princesse de Clèves.” The French Review 91.3 (2018), 56-69.

  • “’Lost in a Sort of Wilderness’: The Epistemology of Love in Sir Charles Grandison.” Studies in Philology 114:2 (2017), 426-445.

  • “John Lyly’s Anatomy of Wit as an Example of Early Modern Psychological Fiction.” Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Issue 3, 2016, 18 pages.

  • “’Emotions so Compounded of Pleasure and Pain’: Affective Contradiction in Austen’s Persuasion.” The Explicator 74:2 (2016), 120-124.

  • “European Literature,” entry in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality Through History, Vol. 3, The Early Modern Period. Eds. Victoria L. Mondelli and Cherrie A. Gottsleben, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.

Education

Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, Comparative Literature, 2012


M.A., CUNY Graduate Center, Comparative Literature, 2006

B.A., New York University, Comparative Literature, 2003

Academic Interests

Book Projects: 


The European Roman d’analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal 


This book (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic) represents an important contribution to the history of the novel by defining and delineating for the first time a sub-genre that I call “analytical fiction.” Analytical novels (a translation of the French term in my book’s title) investigate the epistemology of troubled and failed love and deny the legitimacy of introspection. My book examines a selection of eight European texts written between 1343 and 1827 that illustrate a deeply pessimistic philosophy that questions the validity of every kind of communicative sign.



Danae’s Daughters: Women and Money in Early 20th Century Fiction 


The ways in which women spend money has been fictionalized and satirized in a large body of literature, mostly written by men, including Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more. However, little has been written about the ways in which women themselves write about money. My second book, Danae’s Daughters: Women and Money in Early 20th Century Fiction will examine the relationships between women’s labor, capitalism, and dress in French, English, and American short stories and novels.