Spring 2008 Office Hours

Faculty

TAs

Linda Arellano
arellano@umail.ucsb.edu
Linda Arellano’s research interests include Latin-American literature, twentieth-century Mexican women’s writing, Chicano literature, and Third World Feminism. Her dissertation will examine oppositional consciousness in Chicano literature.

Emmanuelle Beaufort
ebeaufort@umail.ucsb.edu

Karen Bishop
kebishop@umail.ucsb.edu
Karen Bishop’s research interests include exile studies, torture, city studies, philosophies of history, forms of modern poetry, and translation theory. She is currently working on her dissertation, “Mapping the Disappearing World: A Poetics of Exile and Emplacement,” in which she brings together complementary twentieth-century philosophies of space and place in order to consider how writers in Spanish, French and English construct a poetics of place premised on exile and disappearance. Feel free to visit her academic website, with links to her course websites and research projects, at www.kebishop.wordpress.com.

Ken Brown
kbrown16@umail.ucsb.edu
Ken Brown’s research interests include modern and contemporary American and Chinese fiction, the quest in fiction, Modern poetry and Literary theory.

Anne-Claire Cain
anneclaire@umail.ucsb.edu
Anne-Claire’s research interests include Nineteenth-Century British and French literature. She is currently working on the historical evolution of the family, its role of integration into the wider social structure, the influence of Enlightenment values of liberty, equality, fraternity, and the role of normative images of the family in literature. Her project is to explore the representations of the Jewish family vs. isolated Jewish figures, in the Nineteenth-Century British and French Novel.

Christina Cheng
christina_cheng@umail.ucsb.edu
Christina Cheng’s research interests include 18th-century British literature, Chinese vernacular novels, and Asian American immigrant literature. For her first field exam, she would like to explore the theme of diseased bodies in 18th-century British literature, focusing on the plague, the deviant female body, and medical practices.

Anne Dubernet-Marcoline
a_marcoline@umail.ucsb.edu

Erik Eppel
eceppel@umail.ucsb.edu
Erik Eppel is currently working in the domain of modern Italian literature, from the Unification until present, as it pertains to “The Southern Question,” as well as to the issue of Italian national identity. He focuses also on Italian social movements of the ’60s and ’70s, and more specifically, at least for the moment, on the Italian free radio revolution. Erik’s other national literature is (Brazilian) Portuguese.

Mary Garcia
magarcia@umail.ucsb.edu

Adrienne Gats
adrienne_gats@umail.ucsb.edu
Adrienne Gats’ research interests include twentieth-century European and American drama, with an ephasis on Italian, English and Hungarian drama. Adrienne concentrates on the examination of female characters who are portrayed as deviant, marginal, or doomed, and on the expressions of how society affirms identity and value through drama.

Amber Godey
rosambra@umail.ucsb.edu
Amber Godey’s research interests include early twentieth-century Italian, English and French Literature, with a particular focus on autobiography and storytelling as it relates to fascist control and propoganda.

Alissa Gregory
alissabrett@umail.ucsb.edu

Rosie Kar
rkar@umail.ucsb.edu
Rosie Kar’s research interests include 20th century Franco-Caribbean literatures, South Asian/East Indian literatures, and North American literatute, intersections of popular culture with high theory, notions on madness, film, music and individuation associated with hybrid identities.

Linda L. Kick
lkick00@umail.ucsb.edu
Linda L. Kick explores the aesthetics-ethics rapport in French, German, and Anglo-American women’s novels. Analyzing texts from Romanticism through the twentieth century, she employs twentieth-century French and American feminist theory to rethink aesthetics in experimental authors such as Dorothea Schlegel, Mary Shelley, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Delbo, and Helene Cixous.

Danielle La France
daniellelafrance@umail.ucsb.edu
Danielle is working on her dissertation, which compares feminist subtexts in ghost stories published by serious women authors in literary magazines in New York, Texas, and Mexico City in the first half of the twentieth century. Her fields are late 19th & early 20th century U.S, Mexican, and Argentine literatures, and Feminist/Gender Studies.

Elizabeth Lagresa
elagresa@umail.ucsb.edu
Elizabeth Lagresa’s research interests include Spanish, English and Italian early modern literature, with a particular focus on Spanish Baroque and colonial Latin American literature. Some of the topics she is interested in researching are the role of comedy and tragedy in the works of Lope de Vega, Machiavelli and Shakespeare, analyzing their diverse political and historical contexts; how gender roles developed from antiquity through the Renaissance, as exemplified through literature and the visual arts; translation studies focusing on the domain of cross-cultural communication; and how societies/natiions affirm and reshape their identity and values through literature.

Chris K. Lee
chris_lee@umail.ucsb.edu
Chris K. Lee’s research interests include discourse analysis in the mode of Foucault, particularly on the convergences of the scientific/technological and literary historical discourses. Chris, however, takes a more overtly psychoanalytic approach.

Yan Liang
yliang@umail.ucsb.edu
Yan Liang’s research interests include Chinese vernacular novels; popular culture, including web literature and media study; and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English novel narratology.

Marzia Milazzo
marzia@umail.ucsb.edu
Marzia Milazzo earned her Master’s degree in English and Romance Philologies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet in Freiburg, Germany, with a thesis titled “Indigenous Identity Constructions and Representations of the Indian in Chicano/a Literature.” Apart from Chicano/a Literature, her research interests include African American literature, Hispanic Latin American literature (especially Mexican, Peruvian, and Cuban), Spanish literature, and Brazilian literature. Marzia is also interested in music, film, theatre, popular culture and she enjoys writing multilingual poems.

Paulo Moriera
paulodaluzmoreira@yahoo.com
Paulo Moreira’s research interests include twentieth-century U.S., Brazilian, and Hispanic Latin American literature. He also has a marginal interest in nineteenth century literature and is currently working on his prospectus for a dissertation on the work of William Faulkner, Juan Rulfo, and João Guimarães Rosa.

Kieran Murphy
kieran@umail.ucsb.edu
Kieran Murphy’s research interests include French novel (nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries), Caribbean and African literature (with a focus on Haiti and the figure of the zombie), media theory, psychoanalysis, film studies, science, pseudo-science and the occult.

Emily Parsons
eparsons@umail.ucsb.edu
Emily Parson’s research interests include Latin American literatures particularly the Jewish literatures of Argentina and Chile, 19th and 20th century German literatures, as well as Holocaust Studies.
Nanette Pawelek
nanetteje@gmail.com

David Platzer
davidplatzer@umail.ucsb.edu
David Platzer’s research interests include colonial radio, Nigerian and Ghanaian video film, Onitsha Market literature, Francophone and Anglophone African novels, the history of melodrama, cognition, semiotics, and much else. While his interests can be disparate, they are ultimately untied by two overarching concerns: the division of cultural production into “high” and “low” fields, and the way in which narrative art structures and complicates global subjectivities.

Randall J. Pogorzelski
pogorzelski@umail.ucsb.edu
Randall Pogorzelski investigates connections between classical and modernist literature, not only studying the influence of the classics on modernist texts, but also finding ways in which modernist texts and theories of modernism and postmodernism guide readings of classical texts. He is currently writing a dissertation on nationalism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Joyce’s Ulysses.

Allison Schifani
aschifani@umail.ucsb.edu
Allison Schifani’s research interests include Twentieth Century Latin American and U.S. literature and culture, intersections of space and text, cultural geography and environmental theories and representations.

Mary Seliger
m-a-s@umail.ucsb.edu
Mary Seliger’s research interests include Latin American and Iberian Studies as well as twentieth century discourse which explores the dialogue between American literary and legal narratives on the issue of minority rights.

Meaghan Skahan
meaghan_skahan@umail.ucsb.edu
Meaghan Skahan’s interests include twentieth-century poetry and short story, specifically examining the construction of the city and intersections of gender, navigation, and displacement, the evolution of ” le flaneur ” and its gender implications, and the neo-fantastic.

Lisa Swanstrom
swanstro@umail.ucsb.edu
Lisa Swanstrom is a doctoral candidate whose research interests include twentieth-century Latin-American and American literatures, the literature of the fantastic, history of science, media theory, and science-fiction film and literature. Swanstrom is a member of the development and editorial team of The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead). She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the relation between network technologies and subjectivity in 20th and 21st century expression. A more comprehensive academic profile is accessible at www.swanstream.org.

Lily Wong
lilywong@umail.ucsb.edu
Lily Wong’s research interests include post-colonial theory and literatures, global political economy and media theories, language and translation theories, East-Asian oral/religious traditions, literatures, cinema, and music; focusing on issues of cross-cultural translations, paying close attention to translations of local narratives and micro-politics through notions of affect, the body, performativity, and historical writing.

Undergraduate Advisor
Viktoriya Filippova
vfilippova@gss.ucsb.edu
893-2131

Graduate Advisor
Sierra Gray
sierra@gss.ucsb.edu
893-2131

Department Manager
Tilly Govender
tilly@gss.ucsb.edu
893-3527

Chair: Elisabeth Weber
Vice-Chair and Graduate Advisor: Sydney Lévy

ADVISORY BOARD

Michael Berry
berry@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, popular culture in modern China, fiction and drama of late imperial China, and translation studies

Julie Carlson
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
British Romanticism, Feminist and Queer theories, early nineteenth-century British theatre, Black Romanticism

Susan Derwin
derwin@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Holocaust studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European novel, film studies, autobiography, psychoanalysis, critical theory

Ronald Egan
ronegan@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, East Asian Studies
Chinese literature, aesthetics

Yunte Huang
yhuang@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Asian-American literature, American modernism, twentieth-century American poetry

Wolf Kittler
kittler@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Eighteenth- nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, art history, media technology, science and philosophy

Sydney Lévy
slevy@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor
Professor, French and Italian
Contemporary poetry, literary theory, fantastic literature, science and literature

Sara Lindheim
lindheim@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Classics
Latin poetry, critical and feminist theory

Dwight Reynolds
dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
Arabic languages and literatures, folklore and folk life

Harvey Sharrer
sharrer@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Medieval Spanish and Portuguese literatures, comparative medieval literature, Catalan

Jon Snyder
snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Italian literature and comparative European literature, early-modern and modern periods

Sven Spieker
spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
East-Central European literatures, contemporary art (especially in the East-Central-European context), the theory and practice of the historical avant-gardes in East-Central Europe and the US, and the interplay of media, art, and critical theory.

Elisabeth Weber
weber@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Chair
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
French philosophy and theory, German Judaism of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature

Simon Williams
sjwill@dramadance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Dramatic Art
European theatre history, dramatic literature

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Geraldo Aldana
gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory

Silvia Bermúdez
bermudez@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth-century peninsular and Latin American poetry and poetics, literary and cultural theory, Galician poetry, popular culture

Maurizia Boscagli
boscagli@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Gender studies and Feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, fin de siecle literature, critical and cultural theory, theories of mass culture

Edward Branigan
branigan@filmstudies.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film theory, aesthetics, narrative, point-of-view, Japanese cinema

Leo Cabranes-Grant
cabranes@dramadance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Dramatic Art
Spanish and Latin-American drama and theatre history, “minority” theatre

João Camilo dos Santos
jcamilo@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Portuguese and Brazilian literature, comparative literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, “neo-realismo”, literary theory, analysis and criticism of narrative, poetry, and drama

Thomas Carlson
tcarlson@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Christianity and culture, religion, and philosophy

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
ecook@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, English
Eighteenth-century British and French literature and cultural studies

Richard Corum
corum@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Lecturer, English
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, critical theory

James Donelan
donelan@writing.ucsb.edu (CV)
Lecturer, Writing Program
English and German romanticism, Victorian literature, poetics, aesthetics, interdisciplinary humanities research writing, literary theory, idealist philosophy, autobiography, history and culture of technology, world literature, opera, science fiction

Enda Duffy
duffy@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Post-colonial literatures and cultures, modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies, James Joyce

Francis Dunn
fdunn@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Classics
Greek drama, Greek poetry and Latin poetry, time, narrative and closure

Jody Enders
jenders@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Medieval literature, history of rhetoric, performance theory, interrelations of law and literature

Claudio Fogu
cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Relationship between Italian modernism and mass culture; rascist forms of imaginary and their relations to representations of fascism; relationships between 20th-century continental philosophy and visual culture

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg
lfraden@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Medieval English and Scottish literature, critical theory, gender and sexualities, psychoanalysis

Colin Gardner
colinrgardner@cox.net (CV)
Professor, Department of Art
Critical theory, film studies, the culture of the Cold War, visual literacy, Deleuze and minor literatures

Giles Gunn
ggunn@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
American literature, literary theory and criticism, American cultural and religious studies, literature and religion

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Chicano studies, contemporary fiction, Pan-American studies, critical legal studies

Richard Hecht
ariel@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
History of religions, Judaic studies

Richard Helgerson
rhelgers@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Renaissance literature and culture

Jocelyn Holland
holland@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, philosophy of nature

Dolores Hsu
dhsu@music.ucsb.edu
Professor, Music
Text and music, nineteenth-century music, organology, ethnomusicology

Dominique Jullien
djullien@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, Proust studies, Borges studies, intertextuality and rewriting, travel narratives, representation of the artist in prose fiction

Stephanie LeMenager
slemen@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century U.S. literature and cultures, literatures of the North American West, environmental theories and representations, and rhetorics of slavery and freedom

Suzanne Jill Levine
sjlevine@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American literature, comparative literary studies, translation studies, literary theory

Didier Maleuvre
maleuvre@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, aesthetic theory, philosophy, art history

Harold Marcuse
marcuse@history.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, History
Modern German history

David Marshall
dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature and aesthetics

Anne Maurseth
amaurseth@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Eighteeenth-century French and comparative literature, Enlightenment studies, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology and science

Ellen McCracken
emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American and U.S. Latino literature, literary theory

Catherine Nesci
cnesci@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Modern French literature and intellectual history, literary theory, feminist and gender studies, French and Francophone women writers and film directors

Ēlide Oliver
elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, literary theory, theory and practice of translation, history of ideas, history of art and music, philosophy, aesthetics, art, music, musicology

Sara Poot-Herrera
spooth@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Mexican and Spanish-American literature

William Powell
bpowell@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Cultural Studies
History of Chinese religion, Buddhist studies, sacred geography and the production of space

Eric Prieto
prieto@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Twentieth-century literature and theory, Francophone literature and culture, music, narrative poetics, aesthetics

Laurence Rickels
rickels@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Technology and melancholia, group and adolescent psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the Third Reich, genealogy of media, vampirism

Mark Rose
mrose@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Dramatic and non-dramatic Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, science fiction, history and theory of intellectual property

Katherine Saltzman-Li
ksaltzli@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and drama

Cynthia Skenazi
cskenazi@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Renaissance literature and culture, Belgian literature in French

Sven Spieker
spieker@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
European modernism, with an emphasis on the European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art (especially in Eastern and Central Europe), and critical theory

Candace Waid
waid@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
American literature and culture, gender studies, African-American literature, Southern literature, and regional literature

Janet Walker
jwalker@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film History and Historiography, Documentary Film, Film and Ethnography, the Western, and Trauma and Memory

William Warner
warner@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature, the novel, media history and theory, technology and literature

Kay Young
kayyoung@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Victorian studies, the novel, Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s, narrative theory, the relationship of narrative to architecture, philosophy, music, and dance