Gary Hentzi

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: gary.hentzi@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, Columbia University

M.A., English, Columbia University

B.A., English, Oberlin College

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Spring 2015ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Spring 2014MSC1005HHonors Principles of Music
Spring 2014ENG2150HHonors - Writing II
Spring 2013ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2010ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2008ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2007ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2007ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2006ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2006IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Fall 2005ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2004ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2004FRO1000First Year Seminar
Spring 2004ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2003ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2003ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2003FRO1000First Year Seminar
Spring 2003ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2002ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2002ENG4230Maj Top Rest & XVIII Cent Lit
Spring 2002ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2002ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2001ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2001ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2001ENG432019th Century English Novel

Books

Hentzi, G. (2023). On the Avenue of the Mystery: The Postwar Counterculture in Novels and FilmĀ . (p. 279). New York and London, Routledge.

Hentzi, G. (1995). The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York, Columbia University Press.

Journal Articles

(2008). Counterculture Revisited: Young Adam, Then and Now. Scottish Studies Review, 9(2).

(1993). 'An Itch of Gaming': The South Sea Bubble and the Novels of Daniel Defoe. Eighteenth-Century Life , 17(1). 32-45.

(1993). Sublime Moments and Social Authority in Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year. Eighteenth-Century Studies , 26(3). 419-34.

(1993). Little Cinema of Horrors. Film Quarterly , 46(4). 22-27.

(1991). Peter Weir and the Cinema of New Age Humanism. Film Quarterly , 44(2). 2-12.

(1991). Holes in the Heart: Moll Flanders, Roxana and Agreeable Crime. boundary 2, 18(1). 174-200.

(1990). The Literature of Cultural Crossing and the Project of Cultural Studies. Critical Texts , 7(1). 19-27.

Presentations

Hentzi, G. (2000, April 20). . Panel Discussion, American Beauty: Satiric Masterpiece or Something Less. Wellesley College

Hentzi, G. (1999, June 30). . Los ultimos treinta y cinco anos del cuento norteamericano, Palacio de Segundo Cabo, Havana,Cuba, lecture at the invitation of Daniel Garcia Santos, Director, Letras Cubanas.

Hentzi, G. (1998, December 31). . Hardboiled Heroes and Fatal Women: The American Crime Movie from World War Two to Present. Baruch College, Alumni Day

Hentzi, G. (1997, April 23). . De Hemingway a Carver: estilo y sociedad en la cuentistica norteamericana, Dia Mundial del Libro, Instituto de Literatura y Linguistica. Havana, Cuba

Hentzi, G. (1997, April 11). . Scientific Tensions of Victorian Literature, Darwin and Darwinism: Cross Disciplinary Exploration of Learning. CUNY Faculty Development Colloquium, Baruch College

Hentzi, G. (1994, March 3). . Darwin and Darwinism in 19th-and Early 20th- Century English Literature. Baruch College, Faculty Development Seminar on Darwin and Darwinism

Hentzi, G. (1992, February 14). . An Itch of Gaming: The South Sea Bubble and the Novels of Daniel Defoe, Friday Forum Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center.

Hentzi, G. (1992, March 31). . Gambling, Gender, and the National Debt in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Panel on Eighteenth-Century Gaming: Speculation and Social Reflection in a Commercial Polity, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, University of San Diego.

Hentzi, G. (1991, April 30). . An Itch of Gaming: Moll Flanders and the South Sea Bubble, Panel on Gambling and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Pittsburgh

Hentzi, G. (1989, November 30). . Proto-Sublime Moments and Social Authority in Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, Panel on Issues of Cultural Hegemony, Conference of the Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Conference of the Midwestern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ohio State University

Hentzi, G. (1989, November 30). . The Literature of Cultural Crossing, Panel entitled What is Cultural Studies? Marxism Now. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Hentzi, G. (1989, October 31). . Proto-Sublime Moments and Social Authority in Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, Panel on Issues of Cultural Hegemony, Conference of the Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Hentzi, G. (1988, April 30). . Gramsci in English: The Theory of Hegemony and the Career of Raymond Williams, Panel on Hermeneutics and Literary Criticism. Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies, Brigham Young University

Hentzi, G. (1987, December 31). . The Politics of Genre in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Conference on Renaissance Prose: The State(ment) of the Art. Panel on English Literature 1660-1800 at the Mid-Hudson MLA

Hentzi, G. (1987, December 31). . The Politics of Genre in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Conference on Renaissance Prose: The State(ment) of the Art. Purdue University

Other Scholarly Works

Hentzi, G. (1990). An Interview With Jonathan Arac (with Jon Anderson). 7(2), 1-23.

Hentzi, G. (1986). An Interview With Edward W. Said (with Anne McClintock). 3(2), 6-13.

Hentzi, G. (1986). Translation (with Jon Anderson) of Georges Bataille, Marcel Proust. 3(3), 1-2.

Hentzi, G. (1986). Translation (with Jon Anderson) of Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, Freud, Marx. 3(2), 1-5.

Hentzi, G. (1985). Translation (with Jon Anderson) of Felix Guattari, Cinematic Desiring-Machines. 3(1), 3-9.

Reviews

Hentzi, G. (2008,January 1). A Bow Made in England. Cinema Scope. Cinema Scope.

Hentzi, G. (2001,January 1). American Beauty (film review). Film Quarterly .

Hentzi, G. (2000,July 1). Buena Vista Social Club and Cachao: Como Su Ritmo No Hay Dos (review of two films). Film Quarterly .

Hentzi, G. (1992,October 1). Martin Green, Seven Types of Adventure Tale. Eighteenth-Century Studies .

Hentzi, G. (1992,January 1). Paris is Burning (film review). Film Quarterly .

Hentzi, G. (1989,January 1). The Faces of Totality: Review of Fredric Jameson, The Ideologies of Theory. Critical Texts .

Hentzi, G. (1988,January 1). Juliet Flower MacCannell, Figuring Lacan. Substance .

Hentzi, G. (1988,April 1). Bruno Rizzi, The Bureaucratization of the World. Differentia .

Hentzi, G. (1987,January 1). Ted Benton, The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism and Steven B.Smith, Reading Althusser. Substance .

Hentzi, G. (1986,October 1). Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy, ed. Michael Caesar and Peter Hainsworth. Defferentia .

Hentzi, G. (1984,January 1). Phillipe Sollers, Writing and the Experience of Limits. Critical Texts .

Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Distinguished Teaching Award, Baruch College 1997
Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, Baruch College 1993
President's Fellow, Columbia University 1984
President's Fellow, Columbia University 1983
President's Fellow, Columbia University 1982
High Honors in English, Oberlin College 1981

Department

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Committee on Committees 1/1/200012/31/2002
Committee on Academic Awards and Honors 1/1/199712/31/2002
Executive Committee of the English Department 1/1/199712/31/2002
Curriculum Committee 1/1/199312/31/1995
Committee on Committees 1/1/199212/31/1993
Composition Committee 1/1/198812/31/1993
Faculty Work-in-Progress Colloquium 1/1/198912/31/1991

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Associate Dean, WSASAdministrator1/31/2023
Milt Hinton Jazz CommitteeCommittee Member12/15/2022
Joint Committee on Academic Standing Committee Member10/15/2022
Credit for Prior Learning Liaison for Baruch CollegeCollege Representative10/15/2022
Joint Committee on Curriculum and Articulation Committee Member10/15/2022
Co-Freshman Learning Communities Program Co-Founder and Director10/15/2022
Honors Advisory CommitteeCommittee Member5/15/2022
Retention and Student Success Cross-Border TeamCommittee Member5/15/2020
COACHE Analysis Committee Committee Member5/15/2017
Executive Committee of the English Department 12/31/2002
Committee on Academic Awards and Honors 12/31/2002
Committee on Committees 12/31/2002
Classroom Environment Committee 12/31/1997
Curriculum Committee 12/31/1995
School Committe on Academic Standing 12/31/1994
Composition Committee 12/31/1993
Committee on Committees 12/31/1993
Faculty Work-in-Progress Colloquium Organizer12/31/1991
Presidential Commission: Five Year Plan 12/31/1988