Robert Storey
rstorey@temple.edu
Dr. Robert Storey has been at Temple since 1980. He has recently served as Undergraduate Advisor (2003-2004) and was Acting Coordinator in Ambler's English program from 2000-2001.
Dr. Storey has published three books: Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation (Northwestern University Press, 1996), Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomine (Princeton Univeristy Press, 1985) and Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton Univeristy Press, 1978). His current research projects include a study of laughter as an evolved phenomenon. On this subject, Professor Storey has recently published two articles: "Humor and Sexual Selection" in Human Nature (2003) and "A Critique of Recent Theories of Laughter and Humor, with Special Reference to the Comedy of Seinfeld" in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (2001). He is also currently at work on a book on Symbolist art and has published an article which he will include in this book, entitled "The Mystico-Symbolist Argument of Elihu Vedder's Art," Studia Mystica (1996).
Professor Storey teaches courses in Modern and Contemporary drama, Modern American fiction, and the Symbolist movement.
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