Rob Wilson Home  Directory Rob Wilson
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Rob Wilson
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Professor |
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Humanities 1 631 |
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(831) 459-2401 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message |
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rwilson@ucsc.edu |
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Transnational and postcolonial literatures; especially as located in Asia/Pacific emergences as posited against American empire of globalization; cultural poetics of America; the sublime; Longinus to Hiroshima; mongrel poetics of experimental writing; especially poetry |
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FALL 2009: Th 1-3:30 & by appt |
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LTWL 150B - Space/Time: Pacific Rim Discourse
LTWL 209 - Topics in Cultural Studies: Pacfic Rim Discourse and the Literatures of Oceania (Graduate Course)
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Rob Wilson is a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review and received undergraduate and doctoral degrees in English and American literature. He taught for over twenty years at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa; he has been a Fulbright Professor to Korea University and Visiting Research Professor in Cultural Studies at Korea National University of the Arts as well as National Science Council Research Professor to National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He serves as Advisory Editor to the international journals Comparative American Studies, Cultural Studies, boundary 2, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Cultural Studies Review. |
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Book-length publications include American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre and Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond, as well as co-edited collections Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics and Identity in the New Pacific, Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, and The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization. Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics will be published by Harvard University Press in June, 2009; and Automat: Unsettling Anglo-Global Poetics from Asia/Pacific Lines of Flight is forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press, where he had earlier published a work of poetry and cultural studies called Waking In Seoul.
Recent essays have appeared in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (on San Francisco as “spectral city”), in Postcolonial Studies (on Milton Murayama as working-class diasporic writer), in boundary 2 (on Pacific Rim capitalism, film, and cultural production), and in Concentric (on global models of literature and culture). |
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