Arnold Weinstein
Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor at Brown University , where he has been teaching for over 35 years. He received his undergraduate degree in Romance Languages from Princeton University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University .
Professor Weinstein chaired the Advisory Council on Comparative Literature at Princeton University , is the sponsor of Swedish Studies at Brown, and is actively involved in the American Comparative Literature Association.
Among his many academic honors, research grants, and fellowships, Professor Weinstein has received the Younger Humanist Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright Senior Lecturer Award as a visiting professor at Stockholm University, Brown University's award as best teacher in the humanities, Professeur Invité in American Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and a Fellowship for University Professors from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Published Works include:
Fictions of the Self: 1550–1800 (1981); Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (1993); and A Scream Goes Through The House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life (2003).