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Overview
Joel Black is a scholar of aesthetics and German literature who served as an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature department at Hamilton College in the late 1970s. He later became a professor at the University of Georgia. At Hamilton he was part of a small but growing comparative literature faculty alongside Stephen Lipmann, Peter Rabinowitz, and Carol Rupprecht.
Relevance to Research
The November 1978 Spectator identifies “Assistant Professor Joel Black” as a member of the Comparative Literature faculty, citing him in an article about the department’s efforts to attract concentrators. The March 1979 Spectator lists Joel Black as giving a faculty lecture titled “The Second Fall: Digression, Transgression, and Gravitation in Romantic Narrative” during the college’s Black and Latin Cultural Emphasis Week, placing him as an active public intellectual on campus. The 1978-79 course catalog lists “Joel Black, Stephen Lipmann (Chairman), Peter Rabinowitz, and Carol Rupprecht” as the Comparative Literature faculty, confirming his departmental appointment.
Notes
No disambiguation issues. The corpus consistently identifies him as “Joel Black” with the rank of Assistant Professor during 1978-79.
Related Sources
- spec-1978-11-10_djvu.txt
- spec-1979-03-09_djvu.txt
- yhm-arc-pub-cat-1978-79_djvu.txt