Phone: (413)585-3409
Email:jkolb@email.smith.edu
Office: Seelye Hall 413
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Jocelyne
Kolb received her B.A. from Smith College in 1972 and
received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. From
1977 to 1979 she taught (and learned much about teaching)
at Smith, and from 1979 to 1987 she taught German and
Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She returned
to Smith in 1988 after a year in Hamburg as a Humboldt
Fellow. She teaches courses in German language and literature
at all levels and courses in Comparative Literature.
She has written on European Romanticism, with particular
attention to the works of Heine; on literature and music;
and on questions of literary decorum. Her book The
Ambiguity of Taste: Freedom and Food in European Romanticism (University of Michigan Press, 1995) was awarded the
annual prize of the American Conference on Romanticism
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