Phyllis van Slyck
(she/her)
Professor, Department of English, LaGuardia.
I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. I teach The Novel, World Literatures Written in English, The Woman Writer and Cultural Identity in American Literature. I am currently interested in new ethical theorists of the novel, and I use philosophy and psychoanalysis in my close readings. Most recent publication: “The Provocative Strangeness of Albert Camus’s L’Etranger and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” MFS December 2021.
Contact
212-254-5148 · vanph@lagcc.cuny.edu
Publications
Literary Scholarship:
“The Transmission of Memory in James and Proust: Composing Private Texts in The Wings of the Dove and La Prisonièrre.” Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century: Heritage and Transmission, eds. Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding and Dennis Tredy, Cambridge Scholars Press, Spring 2019 (forthcoming).
“Isabel Archer’s ‘Delicious Pain’: Charting Lacanian Desire in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady.” American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences. Winter 2013. Vol. 70 (4): 633-662.
“Tintoretto and James: Exposing the Shattered Subject.” Tracing Henry James. Ed. Greg Zacharias. Cambridge UP, 2008: 424-444; “Charting an Ethics of Desire in The Wings of the Dove.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 47. 3 (2005): 301-323.
“Trapping the Gaze: Images of Desire in James’s Early and Late Fiction.” in The Finer Threads, the Tighter Weave: Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James. Eds. Joseph Dewey and Brooke Horvath. Purdue University Press, 2000: 217-234.
“Knowledge and Representation in The Ambassadors: Strether’s Discriminating Gaze.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 39 (4) Fall 1997: 557-579.
“”An Innate Preference for the Represented Subject'”: Portraiture and Knowledge in The Golden Bowl.” The Henry James Review 15 (2) Spring 1994: 179-190.
Pedagogy Publications:
“Enhancing Faculty Pedagogy and Student Outcomes in Developmental Math and English Through an Online Community of Practice.” Research and Teaching in Developmental Education.Vol. 32 (1) (Fall 2015): 39-49. With Alioune Khoule, Michelle Pacht and Jesse Schwartz
“Welcome to the Land of Superservice.” Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces. Eds. Michelle Masse and Katie J, Hogan. Albany: SUNY Press, 2010: 195-210.
“The Messy Teaching Conversation: Toward a Model of Collegial Reflection, Exchange, and Scholarship on Classroom Problems.” Co-authored with Heidi L. Johnsen, Michelle Pacht and Ting Man Tsao. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Dec. 2009. Vol. 37 (2): 119-136.
“Learning Communities and the Future of the Humanities.” Profession 2006 (MLA): 163-176.
“Situated Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Classroom Strategies for Faculty in Learning Communities” in Diversity, Educational Equity and Learning Communities. Washington Center. Eds. Emily Lardner et al. Summer 2005: 61-78.
Engaging in Diversity at LaGuardia Community College.” With Gail O. Mellow and Bret Eynon. Change, March 2003: 10-17.
“Learning More, Learning Better: Developmental Learning Communities at LaGuardia” in The Pedagogy of Possibilities: Developmental Education, College-Level Studies, and Learning Communities.National Learning Communities Project Monograph Series. AAHE 2003.
Memoir:
“Papers.” 34thParallel: Reality and Fiction.Issue 31. August 2015: 44-47. Print.
“On Not Going Gently.” Still Crazy. June 2014: 6-8. Print.
“There Was No French Toast.” The T.J. Eckleburg Review. 29 August 2014. Web.
