Peter Caputo

Peter Caputo

Associate Professor
Director, Writing Center

English Department
Suffolk  University
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA  02114

Office: Fenton 206
Telephone: (617) 573 8796
Email: pcaputo@suffolk.edu

Degrees
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., New York University

Research Interests: 19th century English literature, the history of the novel, archetypal (post-Jungian) theory, classical mythology

Sponsored Research

Florence, Italy: Research on Browning’s Florence years, Giorgio Vasari, the archetypes of creativity.  Research supported by Browning Institute/Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, and Suffolk University, summer 1992.

Rome, Italy: Research on the “mythic space” of ancient sites and its relationship to the “modern space” of urban architecture.  Research sponsored by Suffolk University, summer 1997.

Selected Papers/Presentations

“How Myth Means: New Questions For Old Gods.”  Seminar For the Advancement of Classical Studies, at Rome University, July 20, 1997.

“Six Ghosts and a Ghostly Director: Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search of An Author.”  Seventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology, University of Urbino, Italy, July 6-10, 1990.

Selected Publications
“Mass Consciousness, The Unconscious and Individuation: A Reading of Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search Of An Author.” Analise Psicologica, Special Issue (1991), 207-11.

“White Robes, Angels Descending.”  Fiction, Myth and Magic, no. 8 (1986), 4-13.

Books In Progress

Looking Back At Orpheus: Reflections On Mythological Moments (essays)

Literary Competitions

The Taletellers (novel):Finalist, The Peter Taylor Prize For The Novel, Semifinalist, The William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition

Courses Taught
Victorian Literature
Dickens and George Eliot
Honors Seminar: The World of Henry James
Classical Mythology
Studies In Postmodern Fiction
Selected Authors: The Journey to the Underworld in Literature and Myth                                           

Archer Seminars
Literature and C.G. Jung
Art and the Creative Unconscious
Myth and Archetype in Literature and Psychology