Background
Downing, Eric Steele Son of George Valentine and Christine Rosenblatt Downing.
Downing, Eric Steele Son of George Valentine and Christine Rosenblatt Downing.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1977. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1986.
Assistant professor German & literature Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987—1992, John L Loeb associate professor humanities, 1992—1995. Charlotte craig distin. visiting professor German Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007. Assistant professor comparative literature University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995—1997, associate professor comparative literature, 1998—2005, professor German, English & comparative literature, adjunct professor classics, since 2005, Hanes distinguished term professor German, English & comparative literature, adjunct professor classics, since 2010, director comparative literature, since 2010.
Author: (scholarly book) Artificial I's: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thmoas Mann, Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism. Editor: Camden House History of German Literature, Volume 9: The Nineteenth Century 1830-1899. Author: After Images: Photography, Archaeology, and Psychoanalysis.
Member of Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association.
Married Nancy Veronica Daukas, July 6, 1989. 1 child Jessica Veronica.