30A - Major Works of European Literature
Wolf Kittler
TR 9:30-10:45am, Buchanan 1910
Enroll via discussion section
Students interested in taking the honors section should speak with the professor the first day of class.
A survey of European Literature. Classical and medieval literature from Homer to Dante.

34 - Literature of the Americas
Danielle Borgia
MW 4:00-5:40pm, Phelps 1260, Enroll: 64873
An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of the Americas through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America varies.

100 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
Susan Derwin
TR 12:30-1:45pm, 434 0145, Enroll: 49601
Prerequisite: upper-division standing
Addresses questions of methodology and also development and debates in the history of literary and critical theory.

119 - Psychoanalytic Theory
Susan Derwin
TR 11:00-12:15pm, TD-W 1701, Enroll: 49619
Prerequisite: upper-division standing
Topics to be addressed each quarter will be chosen from the following: origins of psychoanalysis; sadomasochism; the death-drive; psychoanalysis and the law; group-psychology; psychoanalysis and the media; literature and psychoanalysis.

171 - Post-Colonial Cultures
Eric Prieto
MWF 12:00-12:50pm, Girvetz 1004, Enroll: 04424
Same course as French 154G
Study of fiction from the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Maghreb. Provides insights into the vibrancy of contemporary post-colonial societies, the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and the meaning of multiculturalism born of the conflict between and hybridization of widely differing cultural traditions. In English.

195 - Jr./Sr. Seminar
Didier Maleuvre
TR 2:00-3:15pm, Phelps 6309, Enroll: 49627
Prerequisite: upper-division standing
Selected methodological issues in comparative literature. Topics vary with each instructor.

199 - Independent Studies in Comparative Literature
Staff
1-5 units, Enroll: 04440
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in comparative literature. Must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Comparative Literature 199 may be repeated for credit to a maximum of 30 units, but only 12 units may be applied toward the major.
Independent studies with any faculty member. To permit study of a subject desired by the student but not covered in course offerings.

GRADUATE SEMINARS
200 - Reading McLuhan: Comparing Media from a Literary Critic’s Point of View
W 4:00-6:50pm, Phelps 6320, Enroll: 04457
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Cross-listed with German 210 (23689)
n 1969 Marshall McLuhan published a collection of his literary essays: “The Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan 1943-1962,” including “Joyce, Mallarme, and the Press.” Looking at these essays it can be seen that McLuhan’s theory of media, developed in “The Gutenberg-Galaxy” (1962) and “Understanding Media” (1964), is essentially influenced by literary criticism. This seminar first is intended to familiarize participants with some basic concepts of McLuhan’s major books on the history and theory of media and second examines them in their relationship to McLuhan’s roots in literary studies.

200 - Mental States in the Novel: Proust, Woolf, Borges
Dominique Jullien
T 4:00-6:50pm, Phelps 5316, Enroll: 04465
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Literature provides an excellent resource for modern cognitive science. This course focuses on three authors whose treatment of mental states, cognitive processes and emotional experience, seems to anticipatie on an intuitive level what modern neuroscience is only beginning to verify as our knowledge of brain function develops (witness for example the recent book by Jonah Lehrer, Proust was a Neuroscientist, 2007). The writing of fictional texts (by Proust, Woolf, Borges) also coincides with revolutionary developments in the field of psychology, by James, Bergson and Freud. Proust’s analysis of habit parallels William James’s, while James’s stream of consciousness conception comes alive in Woolf’s late novels; Bergson’s ideas on time and memory find echoes in the Proustian novel of recollection while Mrs. Dalloway offers a metaphorical counterpart to Freud’s trauma theories. At the end of the century, Borges’s fictions can be said to take views of the self and cognitive processes to fantastic extremes. Issues explored in this seminar include: memory and oblivion, the ethics and aesthetics of habit, monstrous forms of memory, involuntary and unconscious memory, memory and trauma, metaphor and the moment of understanding, epiphanies of the mind, creativity and everyday experience, stream of consciousness, collective memory and the disappearance of individualities, etc.

591 - TA Practicum
Wolf Kittler
TBA, Enroll: 04499
Units earned not to apply toward completion of advanced degrees.
Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB.  Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required.

596 - Directed Reading and Research
Staff
Minimum of 2 units per quarter.  No more than half of units required for M.A. may be taken in 596 series (Graduate Division requirement).  Comparative Literature Program requirement: only 4 units of 596 credit may count for credit toward the M.A.
Letter grade only.
TBA, Enroll: 04523
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the program chair.

597 - Individual Study for M.A. Comprehensive and Ph.D. Examinations
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.
Enrollment limited to 24 units per examination (12 units maximum in any one examination quarter). S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04531
For individual study with major professor of chair of director of student’s program.

598 - Master’s Thesis Research and Preparation
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.  S/U grading only
TBA, Enroll: 04549
For research and writing of the master’s thesis.

599 - Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
Staff
S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04556
For research and writing of the doctoral dissertation.  Instructor should be chair of the student’s doctoral committee.

F09            CL 30B            Holland              Major Works of European Literature
F09            CL 31              Saltzman-Li       Major Works of Asian Literatures
F09            CL 103            Rickels               Going Postal: Epistolary Narratives
F09            CL 107            Skenazi             Voyages to the Unknown
F09            CL 154            McClain             Science Fiction in Eastern Europe
F09            CL 179C          Kittler                Mediatechnology
F09            CL 188            Camilo               Narrative Studies
F09            CL 200            Maleuvre            Literature & Moral Dilemma
F09            CL 200            Derwin               Psychoanalysis
F09            CL 260            Levine                Literary Transl:Theory and Practice

W10           CL 27              Jullien                Humanities and Neuroscience
W10           CL 30A            Kittler                Major Works of European Literature
W10           CL 100            Derwin              Intro to Comparative Literature
W10           CL 119            Derwin              Psychoanalytic Theory
W10           CL 171            Prieto                Post Colonial Cultures
W10           CL 195            Maleuvre           Jr/Sr Seminar: The Tragic
W10           CL 200            Jullien                Mental States in the Novel
W10           CL 210            Dotzler              Grad Seminar

S10            CL 30C            Derwin              Major Works of European Literature
S10            CL 35              TBA                    Making of the Modern World
S10            CL 186AD        Camilo               Jr/Sr Sem:Adultery in the 19thC Novel
S10            CL 200             Prieto               Grad Seminar
S10            CL 200             Weber              Intro to Contemporary Theory

30B - Major Works of European Literature
Jocelyn Holland
TR 9:30-10:45, Embarcadero Hall
Enroll via discussion section
Students interested in taking the honors section should speak with the professor the first day of class.
A survey of European literature. Renaissance and Neoclassical literature from Petrarch to Diderot.

31 — Asian Literatures
Katherine Saltzman-Li
MW 9:30-10:45, South Hall 1431
Enroll via discussion section
An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Asia through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on East, South, and Southeast Asia varies.

103 — Going Postal
Larry Rickels
TR 12:30-1:45, TD-W 1701, Enroll: 55715
Prerequisites: upper-division standing
Investigates reappearance of the letter-novel at particular historical moments, and paradoxes built into the letter-form itself. Range of works emphasizing the eighteenth- and later twentieth-century novels, likely including works by Austen, Goethe, Hoffman, James, Montesquieu, Choderlos de Laclos, Lydia Davis, Pynchon.

107 — Voyages to the Unknown
Cynthia Skenazi
TR 5:00-6:15, 387 103, Enroll: 53843
Prerequisites: Writing 2 and 50.
Same course as French 154A.
The impact of the voyages of discovery on late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.

154 — Science Fiction in Eastern Europe
Katia McClain
MW 3:00-3:15, Girvetz 2108, Enroll: 55707
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as Slavic 164B.
The genre of science fiction and its development in literature and film in the various cultures of Eastern Europe. Topics include utopia, dystopia, technology, the “mad” scientist, etc.

179C — Mediatechnology
Wolf Kittler
TR 9:30-10:45, Phelps 1508, Enroll: 55723
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Same course as German 179C.  Not open for credit to students who have completed German 180.
Telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and film are techniques that have engendered new forms of representation, communication, and thinking. Course studies the impact of these transformations in literature and on literature. Taught in English.

188 — Narrative Studies
Joao Camilo Dos Santos
MW 12:30-1:45, Girvetz 2108, Enroll: 55749
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Study of various forms, e.g., novel, shorty story, essay, memoir, with a specific focus each quarter. Topics to be addressed may include strategies of narration, the history of particular narrative forms, what is meant by literary style.

199 — Independent Studies in Comparative Literature
Staff
1-5 units, Enroll: 04614
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in comparative literature. Must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Comparative Literature 199 may be repeated for credit to a maximum of 30 units, but only 12 units may be applied toward the major.
Independent studies with any faculty member. To permit study of a subject desired by the student but not covered in course offerings.

GRADUATE SEMINARS
200 — Psychoanalytic Investigations of Trauma, Rage and Reparation
Susan Derwin
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Cross-listed with German 210 (56671)
Tuesday 3:00-5:50 PM, Phelps 6320, Enroll: 55756
This course will explore modalities of recovery in the aftermath of trauma.  We will consider this issue in the context of the healing of individuals and of societies, and we will do so in view of psychoanalytic approaches to recovery.  How can varying conceptualizations of the relation of a person’s traumatic past to his or her present, our knowledge about the impact of trauma on identity, and our understanding of the process of a survivor’s recovery from traumatic experience, help us think about mechanisms of repair and reparation by social groups or societies committed to a politics of reconciliation?  Conversely, what role does society play in the healing of the individual?  We will address aftermaths of rape, the Holocaust, the Chilean Rettig Commission, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Readings to include: Melanie Klein, Love, Hate and Reparation; Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness; Susan Brison, Aftermath, Violence and the Remaking of a Self; Jeffrey Prager, “Healing from History: Psychoanalytic Considerations on Traumatic Pasts and Social Repair,” Donald Winnicott, ‘The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship,’ Andre Schaap, Political Reconciliation, Ariel Dorfman, “Death and the Maiden,” as well as additional testimonial and theoretical literature.

200 — Literature and Moral Dilemma
Didier Maleuvre
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Thursday 3:00-5:50 PM, Phelps 5313, Enroll: 04622
Ethics is the study of the human good and how to achieve it. How should I live? Why should I live this way?  How best to achieve it? Morality is commonly assumed to take the form of rules issuing from customs, the law, or religion.  But is there more to morality than social conventions? Literary works depict the subjective  experience of reality. It is the story of individuals making choices with a sense of  how their actions shape their lives. Literature therefore stages how moral situations arise, how an individual wrangles with choices and lives with consequences. It gives us a picture of what it is like to be a moral agent in a complex world of split allegiances and obligations between self-realization and social responsibility.

In this course, we will explore why and how literature connects with morality; how ethical problems are presented in fiction, and whether literature is essentially moral. Topics of discussion include literature and religious law, the problem of evil, guilt, authority and dissent, honor, loyalty.

Readings will include some of the following: Bible, Sophocles, Milton, Rousseau, Melville, Kierkegaard, Conrad, Tolstoy, Kafka, Sartre.

260 — Literary Translation: Theory and Practice
Suzanne Jill Levine
Prerequisite: graduate standing
Wednesday 3:00-5:50PM, Phelps 6320, Enroll: 52936
Examination of translation and the canon, questioning the hierarchical division between translation and original, illustrating the concept of the original as translation and the literary text as “work-in-progress” in which translation forms part of the creative process.

591 — TA Practicum
Katherine Saltzman-Li
Units earned to not apply toward completion of advanced degrees
TBA, Enroll: 59360
Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB.  Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required.

591 — TA Practicum
Jocelyn Holland
Units earned to not apply toward completion of advanced degrees
TBA, Enroll: 59378
Supervised teaching of lower-division comparative literature courses at UCSB.  Participation in occasional workshops related to the field of teaching will be required.

596 — Directed Reading and Research
Staff
Minimum of 2 units per quarter.  No more than half of units required for M.A. may be taken in 596 series (Graduate Division requirement).  Comparative Literature Program requirement: only 4 units of 596 credit may count for credit toward the M.A.
Letter grade only.
TBA, Enroll: 04671
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the program chair.

597 — Individual Study for M.A. Comprehensive and Ph.D. Examinations
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.
Enrollment limited to 24 units per examination (12 units maximum in any one examination quarter). S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04671
For individual study with major professor of chair of director of student’s program.

598 — Master’s Thesis Research and Preparation
Staff
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.  S/U grading only
TBA, Enroll: 04697
For research and writing of the master’s thesis.

599 — Ph.D. Dissertation Research and Preparation
Staff
S/U grading only.
TBA, Enroll: 04705
For research and writing of the doctoral dissertation.  Instructor should be chair of the student’s doctoral committee.

Professors (alphabetical by last name)

Jude Akudinobi, akudinob@blackstudies.ucsb.edu, CL 33
Office: South Hall 3713
Hours: TR 10-12

Joao Camilo Dos Santos, jcamilo@spanport.ucsb.edu, CL 188
Office: Phelps 4327
Hours: MR 3:40-4:30

E. Heckendorn Cook, ecook@english.ucsb.edu, CL 103
Office: South Hall 2503
Hours: M 2-3 & R 10-11

Susan Derwin, derwin@gss.ucsb.edu, CL 30C & CL 100
Office: Phelps 6325
Hours: R 3:45-4:45 & by appointment

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, lfraden@english.ucsb.edu, CL 119
Office: South Hall 2708
Hours: T 3:30-4:30 & F 12:30-1:30

William Gahan, williamgahan@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 129
Office: South Hall 432F
Hours: MW 4:45-5:45

Jocelyn Holland, holland@gss.ucsb.edu, CL 200
Office: Phelps 6327
Hours: T 1:30-2:30

Sydney Levy, slevy@french-ital.ucsb.edu, CL 191
Office: Phelps 5216
Hours: MW 3:30-4:30

Larry Rickels, rickels@gss.ucsb.edu, CL 200
Office: Phelps 6324
Hours: W 2:00-2:50

Elisabeth Weber, weber@gss.ucsb.edu, CL 200
Office: Phelps 6206A
Hours: T 9-10:30

Teaching Assistants (alphabetical by last name)

Marcel Brousseau, marcel_brousseau@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 33
Office: Phelps 6330
Hours: TR 12:30-1:30

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, kkelpstebbins@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 30C
Office: Phelps 6330
Hours: T 5-6 & R 12:30-1:30

Elizabeth Lagresa, elagresa@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 30C
Office: Phelps 6330
Hours: M 1-3

Christopher Lee, chris_lee@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 30C
Office: Phelps 6323
Hours: M 2-3:50

Kuan-yen Liu, kuanyen_liu@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 30C
Office: Phelps 6329
Hours: T 10:40-11:40

Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, cyaghoobimassihi@umail.ucsb.edu, CL 30C
Office: Phelps 6329
Hours: M 1:30-2:30 & R 12:30-1:30

Winter 2007 - Spring 2007

“TORTURE AND THE FUTURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE HUMANITIES”

This series of events addresses the critical issues surrounding the use of torture by the most powerful democracy in the world. Our project will focus on four areas: 1) “democratic torture” and its devastating effects on the concept and practice of democracy; 2) the consequences of state-sanctioned torture on the principles and practices of scholarship and education; 3) the role of mass media in the increasing acceptability of the use of torture, and 4) the relationship between torture used in US run prisons abroad, and human rights violations on American soil. The perspectives of social science alone cannot adequately comprehend what is at stake. The humanities might offer more productive methods towards an ethics and politics of response and resistance. We are inviting scholars whose work on torture and human rights effectively crosses the disciplinary gap between the humanities and social sciences, as well as writers and artists whose work is committed to an ethics and politics of response and resistance.

For more information and a list of events, visit: www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture

LECTURE

“A WESTERN VISION OF ORIENTAL WOMEN: Antoine Galland’s Translation of the Thousand and One Nights”

(View Poster Here)

A talk by Professor Jean-Paul Sermain (Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Tuesday, April 17th 4:00 pm
UCen Harbor Room
Free and open to the public

The manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights, as discovered by their first translator Antoine Galland (1646-1715), depicts female characters who are subjected to the constraints of Arab society and Islam, and who overcome these constraints thanks to their intelligence, energy and moral conscience. For Galland, such a representation was incompatible both with the literary canon and the social norms of his time. 18th century French women had achieved a high degree of cultural refinement and social prominence and were allowed a great degree of freedom. Galland’s adaptation reflects this, in effect acclimating the Oriental women of the Nights to the French code of civility. Galland’s Western vision of Oriental women gives us access to three key issues of the Thousand and One Nights: the status of women in Islamic cultures, Classicism’s translation aesthetics which advocates the appropriation of the original, and more generally the debate over Orientalism.

JEAN-PAUL SERMAIN (PhD, 1982, Doctorat d’Etat, 1992) is Professor of French Literature at the Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle. An ENS alumnus, Sermain is a specialist of 18th century French literature, the aesthetics of Classicism and fairy tales. His books include Rhétorique et roman au 18e siècle (1985), Marivaux, Cervantes et le roman post-critique (1999), Métafictions (1670-1730). La Réflexivité dans la littérature d’imagination (2002) and Le Conte de fées du classicisme aux Lumières (2005). His recent work on the Thousand and One Nights includes the critical edition of Antoine Galland’s pioneering translation (2004).

Presented by the Series in Contemporary Literature, the Department of French and Italian, the Comparative Literature Program and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

“EYE OR EAR: WALTER BENJAMIN ON OPTICAL AND ACOUSTICAL MEDIA”
Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Free and open to the public!

Friday, December 1, 2006
10:30 am to 6:00 pm
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 6th floor, McCune Conference Room

Presented by the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture.

For more information, visit: www.gss.ucsb.edu/Benjamin.html

Master of Arts
The M.A. requires a minimum of 36 units of graduate-level course work in either (a) three national literatures, or, (b) two national literatures and one related discipline chosen in consultation with the graduate advisor. The 36 units of graduate-level course work must include a minimum of 8 graduate units in each of two national literatures and 4 graduate units in the student’s third national literature or the related discipline. Eight additional graduate units must be taken in comparative literature. A maximum of 4 units of 596 course work can be counted toward the master’s degree. By the end of the second year of study, students must pass a written qualifying field examination or successfully complete a thesis in a national literature other than the literature of their native language. Students are invited to join the Ph.D. program by the Graduate Studies Committee. The invitation is contingent upon the student’s performance meeting the standards of excellence needed for PhD study in CL at UCSB in graduate course work and on the first qualifying examination, as well as upon the positive recommendations by the student’s exam committee and the faculty with whom the student has worked.

Doctor of Philosophy
The Ph.D. degree in comparative literature requires the study of three fields consisting of either (a) three national literatures, or, (b) two national literatures and one related discipline. One of the literatures may be English. The other(s) must be studied in the original language. Two fields are considered major and the third minor. The selection of fields must be approved by the graduate adviser.
Students entering the program with an M.A. in comparative literature or a closely related field need a minimum of 24 units of additional graduate-level course work to be distributed in consultation with the graduate advisor. For students entering the program in catalog year 2009-10 and later, these 24 units must include 4 units in each of two national literatures, 4 units in the student’s third national literature or related discipline, and 4 units in comparative literature. Additional course work may be required to make up for deficiencies. Students must pass three field exams in three national literatures or two national literatures and a related field. The first field examination should be taken in the first quarter of their second year at UCSB. For students entering the program with a B.A., a minimum of 60 units of graduate-level course work including work done at the M.A. level is required. A minimum of 12 units of graduate-level course work must be completed in each of the student’s three fields, plus at least 12 additional units of graduate-level course work from the offerings in the Comparative Literature Program, with the remaining 12 units to be distributed among the student’s fields in consultation with the Graduate Adviser. The field exam written at the MA level counts as the first field exam for the Ph.D. The other two qualifying field examinations and the remaining 24 units of course work should be completed by the end of the fourth year of study. Students may retake each field exam only one time.
Upon completion of the three field exams students prepare an oral exam, administered by the dissertation committee, in which they present a dissertation prospectus on the proposed dissertation topic. Students who pass this examination and demonstrate proficiency in a second foreign language will be advanced to candidacy. The final requirement is the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation including an oral defense.

Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in East Asian Literatures
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies offers a doctoral emphasis to students previously admitted to the Ph.D. program in comparative literature. Students pursuing the emphasis in East Asian Literatures must complete four graduate-level courses: a pro-seminar on bibliography and research methodology (Chinese 211 or Japanese 211) and three other approved seminars or reading courses in the student’s field. In addition, students of Chinese literature are expected to have completed at least three years of modern Chinese and three quarters of Classical Chinese (Chinese 101A-B-C) or the equivalent. Students of Japanese are expected to have completed at least four years of modern Japanese and two quarters of Classical Japanese (Japanese 181, 182, 183).

There are a total of 16 units of coursework required for the emphasis in East Asian literatures, which may also be counted to satisfy the 12 to 24 units of graduate coursework in a national literature necessary for the Ph.D. in comparative literature. The doctoral committee must include a faculty member from the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies department, either as committee chair or as one of the three participating members. The dissertation for the emphasis must rely in some significant measure on primary sources in Chinese or Japanese. Contact the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies for additional information on faculty research interests and course offerings.

Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in Feminist Studies
The Department of Feminist Studies, with almost fifty core and affiliated faculty members in over nineteen disciplines, serves as a model of interdisciplinary work and scholarly collaboration at UCSB. Feminist Studies doctoral emphasis students are required to complete successfully four seminars that will enhance their understanding of feminist pedagogy, feminist theory, and topics relevant to the study of women, gender and/or sexuality. Feminist Studies as an inter-departmental set of conversations and intellectual questions supports a multifaceted undergraduate curriculum at UCSB. Doctoral emphasis students are encouraged to apply to teach Feminist Studies courses as teaching assistants and associates as part of their Feminist Studies training.

Applicants must first be admitted to, or currently enrolled in, a UCSB Ph.D. program participating in the Feminist Studies graduate emphasis. Anthropology; Chicana and Chicano Studies; Comparative Literature; Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology; English; French and Italian; Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies; History; History of Art and Architecture; Linguistics; Music; Political Science; Religious Studies; Sociology; Spanish and Portuguese; or Theater and Dance. Candidates complete four graduate courses and select a member of the Feminist Studies faculty or affiliated faculty to serve on their dissertation committees. Applications to the Feminist Studies Doctoral Emphasis may be submitted at any stage of Ph.D. work, and applications will be considered throughout the year.

Doctoral Emphasis Coursework
Students pursuing the emphasis in Feminist Studies will successfully complete four graduate courses that have been approved by the Doctoral Emphasis advisor.

1. Feminist Theories. A one quarter graduate seminar in interdisciplinary feminist theory offered by any department, including Feminist Studies 250 AA-ZZ.
2. Issues in Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy (Feminist Studies 270). A one quarter seminar that considers Feminist Studies as a distinct field. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of feminist theories of knowledge production and teaching practices. Readings cover past and present critical debates and provide theoretical approaches through which to analyze interdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical issues.
3. Graduate Seminar in Feminist Studies (Feminist Studies 200-290 or 594 AA-ZZ). A one quarter seminar offered by a Feminist Studies faculty member on topics of central concern to the field.
Or,
Research Practicum (Feminist Studies 280). A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary feminist research practice are considered in light of students’ own graduate projects.
4. Topical Seminar. A one quarter graduate seminar that addresses topics relevant to the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality. This seminar must be taken outside the student’s home department; it may be fulfilled either by another graduate seminar in Feminist Studies or a seminar in another department.

Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in Translation Studies
Courses in Translation Studies engage the theoretical questions that are germane to a philosophy of translation and that inform the practice of translation.
Any enrolled graduate student in good academic standing with an interest in literary translation, competency in more than one language and a willingness to complete the required coursework/research project may take part in the emphasis. Following a successful year of masters and/or doctoral study in one of the participating departments, students may petition to add the Translation Studies Emphasis, which in addition to Ph.D. requirements of the home department, requires the following:
1) Completion of 16 units, to include Comparative Literature 170/260: Literary Translation: Theory and Practice, which is offered every other year, or an equivalent course covering some aspect of translation theory and practice approved by the Translation Studies faculty advisor in consultation with the advisory committee.

The four courses (16 units) may be fulfilled in a number of ways:
*Students must take at least two courses which cover some aspect of Critical, Theoretical and/or Historical approaches to translation.
*At least one of the four courses should be taken outside the student’s home department.
*At least four of the 16 units can be taken as an independent study/practicum, in the event a course listed in Appendix A does not have a sister graduate-level course. (To see the list of approved course options consult the graduate advisor in one of the participating departments.)
Students may take any two 4-unit courses in their department in which a translation component can be integrated into the course material—e.g.. any literature course in the various language and literature departments; any catalogue or approved independent study course in Religious Studies, Classics, etc. involving close textual reading, linguistic analysis, cultural study/ interpretation—and work with the faculty/supervisor on a translation-related final project aside from doing all the course work. These units would be part of the basic 16 unit-requirement.
2) Completion of a final project (approximately 30 pages), approved by the Translation Studies advisor in consultation with an advisory committee made up of two additional affiliated faculty, which, based on the translation(s) of a particular text, examines the relationships between textual practice and theoretical perspectives, thus addressing some relevant aspect of translation theory, criticism, or history. Ph.D. students have the option of doing the field project OR of including Translation Studies as a significant research topic or methodology in their doctoral dissertation. For the 30 page project, the student may include his/her own translation as part of the project. The final project must be unanimously passed (B or higher) by the three-member project committee, made up of affiliated faculty. The project with comments and grade will then be seen by the advisory committee to maintain consistency among the projects.

General & Program Information

Information for new grads

Graduate Handbook

Timeline for Meeting MA/PhD Requirements

TA Training Manual

Field Examinations

Information Sheet to give to committee members

Reading List/Abstract Approval Form

Field Exam 1 Approval Form

Field Exam 2 Approval Form

Field Exam 3 (Minor field) Approval Form

Field Exam Forms (for those who entered the Program prior to Fall 2007)

Coursework

596 Directed Reading and Research Form

Degree “Cheat Sheets”

MA/PhD Degree

PhD degree Fall 2009 and later

PhD degree admitted prior to Fall 2009

Emmanuelle Beaufort
ebeaufort@umail.ucsb.edu
Emmanuelle Beaufort received her MA in English at the University of Bordeaux Michel de Montaigne, focusing on Jewish American writers. She was also awarded the prestigious “agrégation” in English in 2003. Her interests include 20th century American literature and North African francophone writers, war and resistance narratives, and the relationship between the individual, the couple and the family unit in the context of social or political turmoils. Her practical and theoretical emphases are psychoanalysis, and the question of pedagogy and its encounters with anarchist and socialist thoughts.

Marcel Brousseau
marcel_brousseau@umail.ucsb.edu
Marcel Brousseau is exploring indigenous North American literature, with a focus on Mexican and American Indian poetry, fiction, and oral history. He is particularly interested in the hybrid art forms wrought by Colonialism, gender and power dynamics, and how literature depicts humanity’s relationship with the landscape.

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.

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 also focuses on Italian social movements of the ’60s and ’70s, and more specifically, on the Italian free radio revolution. Erik’s other national literature is German.

Eli Evans
elisevans@umail.ucsb.edu
Eli Evans has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona and an MA in criticism and theory from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. His interests include Spanish literature since 1976, and also sports and gold. Look for his regular collaborations with magazines such as n+1, in the US, and Quimera, in Spain.

Mary Garcia
magarcia@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.

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
kkelpstebbins@umail.ucsb.edu
Katie Kelp-Stebbins is interested in examining the translation and reception of classical texts in modern languages. Her research interests include Greek and Latin literature, translation theory, reception theory and comics theory.

Linda 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.

Karin Kröger
karin_kroger@umail.ucsb.edu
Karin is a graduate exchange student from the University of Erfurt, Germany. In her undergraduate studies she focussed on Russian and combines this in her current studies with other literatures as well as Literary Theory, ‘Representation’ and the ‘alphabet’. Her special interest lies in intersections between literature and mathematics.

Danielle La France Borgia
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.

Christopher K. Lee
chris_lee@umail.ucsb.edu
Christopher Lee is a Ph.D. candidate currently working in the intersections of media, literature, and the psychoanalytic theory of mourning.  Following the post-Freudian framework prepared by Abraham and Torok’s works on cryptonymy, Christopher seeks to draw out the determining relationship between technology/ techno-culture and the difficulty of mourning our losses, all within a broad purview of Western/ westernization culture informed by an education and interests as various as his undergraduate training as a classicist and a serious, non-condescending interest in popular culture.  Christopher’s current work on the dissertation covers a period roughly contemporary to modernist literature, his first interest in and entry into literature.  All the same, despite the focus on familiar names such as August Strindberg, Samuel Beckett, and Virginia Woolf, his work reveals that the old refrain of everything has been read is true only to the extent of our avoidance of mourning.

Kuan-yen Liu
kuanyen_liu@umail.ucsb.edu

Anne Marcoline
a_marcoline@umail.ucsb.edu
Anne Marcoline’s research focuses on the intersections of French and German literature, music and aesthetics from the late-18th century to the mid-20th century. In particular, she has focused on the function of music in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Sand, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Thomas Mann. The central thread throughout her doctoral studies thus far is on the Faustian legend in literature and music, including the canonical works of Goethe, Berlioz, Gounod and Thomas Mann, as well as the non-canonical works of George Sand, Louise Bertin and Paul Valéry. Her work on Thomas Mann’s _Doktor Faustus_ brings together the strands of her larger study of music, literature and musical aesthetics in the Germanic tradition, spanning from Beethoven to Berg, Goethe to Mann, and Schopenhauer to Adorno and Dahlhaus.

Marzia Milazzo
marzia@umail.ucsb.edu
Marzia Milazzo earned her Master’s degree in English and Romance Philologies at the Albert Ludwigs Universität 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.

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
nanette@umail.ucsb.edu

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.

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.

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.

Lily Wong
lilywong@umail.ucsb.edu
Lily Wong is a third year M.A./Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include (post)colonial theory and literatures, globalization and media theories, language and translation theories; paying close attention to notions of affect, the body, performativity, and historical writing. Her current project focuses on cross-cultural translations of local narratives through literary, filmic, and music representations of prostitution culture in the regions of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and beyond.

Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi
cyaghoobimassihi@umail.ucsb.edu
Claudia earned her Masters degree in English Literature at California State University of Los Angeles with a thesis titled “The Little Blessings of Life: The Sisyphean Character in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.” She has always been enchanted with the Absurd Literature and The Theatre of the Absurd, particularly the French triangle of Beckett, Ionesco and Genet. Besides the Absurd, her research interests include English Medieval Literature, Persian Medieval Literature, the rise of Mysticism in the Middle ages, Western-Christian Mysticism and its impact on English Medieval literature vs. Eastern-Islamic Mysticism and its role in Persian Medieval literature, and ultimately tracing the commonalities in Western and Eastern Literatures in the context of Mysticism. She is also interested in psychoanalysis and feminist study of the medieval religious women.

Recent Graduates

Karen Bishop, PhD September 2008
kebishop@fas.harvard.edu
Karen Bishop’s research interests include twentieth-century Latin American, North American, French and Francophone literatures, modern poetry and poetics,exile studies, torture, philosophies of history, philosophies of space and place, and translation studies.  Her current book project, Mapping Disappearance: Representing the Absent in Modern Argentine Fiction, examines the appearance of disappearance as an inter-related aesthetic and political category in twentieth-century Argentine literature.  She maintains an academic website at www.kebishop.wordpress.com.

Amber Godey, PhD December 2007
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.

Yan Liang, PhD December 2008
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.

Paulo Moriera, PhD September 2007
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 wrote his dissertation on the work of William Faulkner, Juan Rulfo, and João Guimarães Rosa.

Randall J. Pogorzelski, PhD December 2007
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 wrote his dissertation on nationalism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Joyce’s Ulysses. Randall began a lectureship in the Department of Classics at UC Irvine in Fall 2008.

Mary Seliger, PhD June 2008
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.

Lisa Swanstrom, PhD June 2008
swanstro@umail.ucsb.edu
Lisa Swanstrom’s 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 recently completed 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. Starting in Fall 2008, Lisa will be a Postdoctoral Scholar at Brandeis University holding the title of Florence Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities.

Stacey Van Dahm, PhD September 2007
svandahm@writing.ucsb.edu
Stacey Van Dahm completed her dissertation, titled “Nationalism and Narrative of Subjectivity in the Cold War Imaginary” during Summer 2007 and took a position as a Lecturer in the Writing Program at UCSB. Starting Fall 2008, she will be an Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing at Philadelphia University.

Undergraduate Advisor
Ashley Bradbury
ashley@gss.ucsb.edu
893-2131

Graduate Advisor
gd-complit@complit.ucsb.edu
893-2131

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