Robert B. Alter, ProfessorAddress: 4315 Dwinelle 2510Email: altcos@berkeley.eduWebsite: http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/docs/faculty.html
Teaches courses on the 19th-century European and American novel, on modernism, and on literary aspects of the Bible, and he also teaches and writes on modern Hebrew literature. His publications range from critical biography (Stendhal) to literary theory (The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age) to two recent volumes of Bible translation accompanied by literary commentary --Genesis and The David Story. His forthcoming book is titled Recasting the Canon. (Ph.D., Harvard University)"
