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Gretchen Busl, Ph.D. - Texas Woman's University. Denton, TX, UNITED STATES

Gretchen Busl, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of English | Texas Woman's University

Denton, TX, UNITED STATES

Gretchen Busl's research focuses on adaptation and translation in world literature.

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Biography

Gretchen Busl received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Notre Dame, with a focus on adaptation and translation in world literature. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. Her current and upcoming courses include Honors Study Abroad, World Literature, Women in Literature, Narrative Theory, Multilingual Writers, and Global Novels in English.

Gretchen has published recently in Modern Language Review, and her article on adaptation and the frame-tale narrative in John Barth’s Tidewater Tales is forthcoming in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. She is working on a book project that explores framed narratives and oral storytelling in contemporary global novels. Her secondary research focuses on graduate student writing, and she has two forthcoming articles on the Dissertation Writing Camp student support model.

Industry Expertise (2)

Education/Learning

Translation/Localization

Areas of Expertise (8)

World Literature

Adaptation

Translation

Multilingualism

Graduate Student Writing

Women Writers

Narrative Theory

Global Media

Education (2)

University of Notre Dame: Ph.D., Literature 2012

Mount Holyoke College: B.A., Romance Languages 2004

Affiliations (5)

  • American Association of University Women
  • Modern Language Association
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • International Society for the Study of Narrative
  • National Council of Teachers of English

Languages (5)

  • English
  • Italian
  • French
  • Spanish
  • German

Event Appearances (5)

Cosmopolitan Texts and Global Audiences: The Multiple Narratives of Rana Dasgupta and David Mitchell

American Comparative Literature Association Conference  Seattle, WA

2015-01-01

Frame Tale Narratives and the Ethics of Cosmopolitanism: The Hakawati, Tokyo Cancelled, and Damascus Nights

International Society for the Study of Narrative  Chicago, IL

2015-01-01

Self-conscious World Literature: Tokyo Cancelled and the Frame-tale Narrative

International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference  Cambridge, MA

2014-01-01

Participatory Culture and the Public Domain: Critiquing Authorship through Self-Conscious Adaptation

South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention  Atlanta, GA

2013-01-01

Global or Globalized? Locating World Literature at Inception

American Comparative Literature Association Conference  Toronto, ON

2013-01-01

Articles (3)

Adaptation, Collaboration, and the Critique of Originality in John Barth's The Tidewater Tales


Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature

2015 This article reads John Barth's novel The Tidewater Tales primarily as an adaptation, rather than a work of postmodern fiction. In making the process of retelling so central to the novel, Barth creates a self-conscious assessment of the “unnecessity,” and even impossibility, of originality.

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Camping in the Disciplines: Assessing the Effect of Writing Camps on Graduate Student Writers


Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing

2015 In the past ten years, an increasing number of universities have begun organizing writing "camps," or full-week immersion experiences, in an effort to address the increased need to support graduate student writing. Outside of anecdotes and testimonials, we have previously had very little data about these camps' success. This study, conducted over the course of three such camps, attempts to address this lack by measuring graduate student writing confidence levels and self-regulation efforts both before and after attendance.

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Rewriting the Fiaba: Collective Signification in Italo Calvino's Il castello dei destini incrociati


The Modern Language Review

2012 This article connects the combinatorial format of Italo Calvino's Il castello dei destini incrociati with the oral and framed narrative traditions in order to argue that Calvino recuperates the communal nature of storytelling, thus liberating the novel from the kind of alienation and incommensurability of language suggested by Walter Benjamin in his seminal essay ‘The Storyteller’.

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