Associate Professor and Director of the University Honors Program
Office Location: Andersen 2118
Phone Number: (262) 472-1269
Email Address: rhinem@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             1983 B.A., English Literature and Honors, Western Washington University                                                                                       1986 M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                                                                1992 Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                                                               DISSERTATION: Inscriptions and Incisions: Writing and the Body in the Works of Franz Kafka and Yukio Mishima

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           History of Narrative, World Literature, East-West Literary Relations, Kafka, Literary Theory, Representations of the Body in Narrative, The Epistolary Novel, Japanese Fiction, Composition

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Freshman Composition and Honors English, World of Ideas, Introduction to Critical Writing in the Field of English, Controversies in Criticism, Postcolonial Literatures, The Kafkaesque in Literature, Culture and Film

Select Publications:                                                                                                                                                                          "Manufacturing Discontent: Mapping Traces of Industrial Space in Kafka's Haptic Narrative Landscapes" Forthcoming in The Journal of the Kafka Society of America                                                                                                                                             "Finding the Local in the Global: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching" (Forthcoming in a Modern Languages Association Approaches to Teaching volume Approaches to Teaching World Literature, edited by David Damrosch co-written with Jeanne Gillespie of the University of Southern Mississippi.)                                                                                                       "Satanic Verses and Kafka's Curse: Kafkan Echoes in Stories of Mutable Post-Colonial Identities" The Journal of the Kafka Society of America 1-2 (June/December 2003): 57-64                                                                                                                       "A Body of One's Own: The Body as Sanctum of Individual Integrity in Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being" In the collection Milan Kundera: Critical Essays. Edited by Peter Petro. G. K. Hall, 1999. 231-241                                                             "Glossing Scripts and Scripting Pleasure in Mishima's Confessions of a Mask" Studies in the Novel 32:2 (Summer 1999): 222-223                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Reading Oedipus in Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being" with Hana Pichova. Comparative Literature Studies 34:1 (1997): 71-83

Recent Conference Presentations:                                                                                                                                              "I Think, Therefore I Suffer: How the Increasing Representation of Narrative Consciousness Parallels the Breakdown of the Body in Mann's Buddenbrooks" Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Washington, D.C. March 2007                              "What's Brewing in the Witch's Consciousness: Maguire's Crafty Use of Narrative Qualia in Wicked" Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, November 2006
"She's Givin' Me Good Vibrations: Dracula and the Telephone" Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Louisville, KY, April 2005
The Kafka-Coetzaa Connection: Experiments in Narrative Space and Pace. Society for the Study of Narrative Conference, Burlington, VT, April 2004                                                                                                                                                                     "Kafkaesque Burrows through Japan's Psychic Space in Karuki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 2003