Stacy Pies
Clinical Associate Professor
sep1@nyu.edu
(212) 998-9156
Office Hours
Monday By Appt
Tuesday By Appt: 2:00-3:00
Wednesday By Appt
Thursday By Appt: 12:30-3:00
Friday By Appt
B.A., Literature, Yale University, 1979
M.A., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, 1984
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, 1993
Stacy Pies teaches courses that explore the role of narrative and culture in texts and human relationships, as well as courses exploring poetry and poetics. Her teaching and research interests include poetry, world literature, narrative across the disciplines and narrative theory, literary criticism, literature and philosophy, and writing on cities and urbanism. Her courses include the writing seminars ÒLife, Stories, CultureÓ and ÒImagining CitiesÓ and the interdisciplinary seminars ÒNarrative InvestigationsÓ (I and II), ÒMetaphor and Meaning,Ó ÒCaliban,Ó and ÒThe Philosophic Dialogue.Ó She has helped develop and teach Gallatin travel courses in France and Cuba. She received her doctorate in comparative literature and was a National Graduate Fellow. Her dissertation, "The Poet or the Journalist: Stphane Mallarm, John Ashbery and the Pome Critique," won the Margaret C. Bryant Dissertation Award. She has presented papers and chaired panels at the MLA, ACLA, Nineteenth-century French Studies Colloquium, and twentieth-century literature conferences, among others. Her essays and reviews have appeared in French Forum, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman. Her poetry has appeared in Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics and Conditions. Professor Pies received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. She is currently faculty Chair of the Gallatin Writing Program.
Teaching and Research Interests
poetry; American and European literature 17thÐ20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis
Courses
2023 Spring
2022 Spring
Narrative Investigations II: Realism to Postmodernism
2022 Fall
2021 Fall
2020 Spring
Narrative Investigations II: Realism to Postmodernism
2020 Fall
