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Indiana University Bloomington
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : People

NAMEHerbert Marks

  • Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Robert and Sandra S, Borns Jewish Studies Program
  • Director, Institute for Biblical and Literary Studies
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

  • Ph.D. at Yale University, 1985

Research Interests

  • Biblical studies
  • Medieval Italian masters
  • The Modern novel
  • Twentieth-century poets

Contact Information

marks@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 914
(812) 855-7935

Courses Recently Taught

  • The Lyric Poem
  • Who Wrote the Bible?
  • Genesis and Myth
  • Literature and Psychoanalysis
  • Blake and the Bible
  • Modern Elegy
  • Dante and Medieval Theories and Language

Publication Highlights

  • New edition of the Hebrew Bible in English, with full commentary, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2004.