Emeriti

Harvey Rabbin, along with Marcelle Rabbin of the Romance Languages Dept., was a founder of the comp. lit. program in the early 1980s, an inventor of the "Theory and Practice of Literature" beginning course, the "Practice in Comparison" course and much else in the curriculum.  He conducted many of the junior-senior seminars, including the first of the series on East European fiction coordinated with the study of formalist poetics.  In the spring of 1999 he and Marcelle retired to France.