Mark Axelrod, "Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from Dostoyevsky to Lacan" (repost)

Mark Axelrod is a Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English at Chapman University, Orange, California. Prior to teaching at Chapman, he taught at the University of East Anglia, UK and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. A graduate of both Indiana University (BA, MA) and the University of Minnesota (PhD) [Dissertation: The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Beckett, Balzac and Cortázar]. For fourteen years he has been the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing for which he has received 4 National Endowment Arts Grants. He is a two-time recipient of a United Kingdom Leverhulme Fellowship for Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, Edinburgh University), a three-time recipient of the Alliance Française National Writing Award, has written over 20 works of fiction including Capital Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 2000), Cloud Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1998), Cardboard Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1996) and Bombay California (Pacific Writers Press, 1994) and Secret Histories: Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage (fc2, 2005) which was published in fall, '09 in Spanish by Thule Ediciones, Barcelona as Viajes Borges, Talleres Hemingway and is currently under consideration with Grupo Editorial in Rio de Janeiro.