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Literature DepartmentHumanities 1, room 303Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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| Graduate Program The graduate program in Literature offers qualified students an innovative multidisciplinary approach to literary studies under the guidance of an internationally recognized faculty. The program is relatively small and students work closely with faculty throughout their graduate careers. Graduate students are able to take advantage of a rich array of intellectual and cultural events, to participate in collaborative research clusters, and attend lectures by scholars whose work is transforming the discipline. The goal of the program is to develop scholars who will be qualified to teach in departments of national and comparative literatures, cultural studies, minority studies, and interdisciplinary programs. The graduate program in literature at UCSC combines critical and independent thought with multi-lingual training and global perspectives. Students are able to devise their own program of study within these guidelines. Literature students at UCSC work within and across the five areas listed below. Each area cuts across linguistic, national, and period boundaries. In combination they allow students to blend critical approaches, literary traditions and/or cultural archives in comparative, multilingual, and interdisciplinary projects. Students typically take two years to complete the Masters degree and are well prepared to continue in a doctoral program elsewhere. Normative time for receiving a Ph.D. is seven years and graduates go on to teach at institutions of higher learning across the world. Ph.D. students are required to be able to read proficiently at least two languages that are integral to their intellectual work, one of which must be English. AREA OF EMPHASES ( expand all | collapse all ) TECHNOLOGIES OF NARRATIVE
Narratives, ancient to contemporary, are constructed and communicated through a wide variety of means and media. How do the historical changes in these technologies of narrative impact the evolution of literary forms, both established (epic, tale, novel, film) and emergent (hypertext, interactive books, blogs, video)? Students explore a multiplicity of forms through diverse critical approaches, including formal, historical, and theoretical analysis.
• History of the Book • Orality, Orature • History of the Novel • Novels and Graphic Novels • Emergent Literatures • Narratology • Genre Theory • Film and Digital Media • Stage Narratives Faculty working in this area: Jorge Aladro-Font Karen Bassi Murray Baumgarten A. Hunter Bivens Julianne Burton-Carvajal Nathaniel Deutsch Carla Freccero Mary-Kay Gamel Wlad Godzich Jody Greene Kirsten Silva Gruesz John O. Jordan Norma Klahn H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. Juan Poblete Daniel Selden Deanna Shemek Richard Terdiman TRANS/POST/EMERGENT NATIONALISMS
Literary and cultural production occurs within a range of political contexts, ranging from national, regional, and ‘local’ locations to various transnational, transregional, and translocal connections. In this cluster students are encouraged to place and trace, both locating their objects of analysis in a particular history and geography and tracking their movements beyond. Students explore literary and cultural texts, as well as cultural, political, and economic movements (revolution, imperialism, decolonization, globalization). This approach combines the study of local rootedness, global movement, and historical formation. Working on both temporal (historical) and spatial (geopolitical) axes, the worlded perspective invites students to think within and across a range of periods.
• Globalisms, World Systems, Civilizational projects • Colonialism, Decolonization, and Postcoloniality • Empire and Postimperial Formations • Nations and Nationalisms • Migration, Diaspora, Exile • Cosmopolitanism • Transregional focus areas include: Hemispheric Americas • US in a Transnational Context • Americas Latinas (Latina/o Americas) • The Atlantic World and the Caribbean • Asia and the Pacific Rim • Mediterranean Studies • Ancient Near East and the Classical World • Africa (Ancient and Modern) • European Nations, Nodal Cities, External Peripheries • Jewish Diaspora Faculty working in this area: Jorge Aladro-Font Murray Baumgarten Julianne Burton-Carvajal Louis Chude-Sokei Christopher Connery Nathaniel Deutsch Carla Freccero Mary-Kay Gamel Wlad Godzich Kirsten Silva Gruesz John O. Jordan Sharon Kinoshita Norma Klahn Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal Juan Poblete Daniel Selden Rob Wilson POETICS, POETRY, AND EXPERIMENTAL WRITING
Poetry and poetics is a transnational, historical, and theoretically informed discipline, which ranges from study of classical poetry and theory to contemporary experimental writing. Students may concentrate in a historical area (e.g. medieval and Renaissance lyric, modernist writing, etc.), a geographical-regional context (Latin American poetries, San Francisco Bay Area writing, Pacific Rim, etc.), theoretical approach (feminist, Marxist, rhetorical, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, semiotic, etc.), or practical approaches (translation, poet-critic projects, etc.). Students working in this area benefit from the opportunity to work with the creative writing program (presently developing an MFA degree) and extra-departmental faculty in visual, performance, film, and digital arts to shape innovative, interdisciplinary research projects.
• Comparative Historical and World poetics • Poetic Subjectivities • Oral and Performance Poetics • African American and African Diasporic Poetries • Poetic Translation and Translation Theory • Experimental and Avant-garde Writing • Cultural Contexts of Poetic Practices • Poetry and politics • Poetry and Rhetorical theory • Interfaces between poetry and the other arts • Linguistics and Metrics • Material and Institutional Histories of Poetry • Creative-critical Interfaces Faculty working in this area: Karen Bassi Carla Freccero Mary-Kay Gamel Wlad Godzich Jody Greene Kirsten Silva Gruesz John O. Jordan Norma Klahn Tyrus Miller Micah Perks Daniel Selden Rob Wilson Karen Tei Yamashita MATERIALISM AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Literary artifacts are never disembodied. They remain embedded within complex overlays of material culture (e.g. archaeologies of the book collection, epigraphic layout, manuscript and book trade, etc.), and therefore invite reading practices that explore the message, the medium, and the relation between the two. Students consider material contexts such as manuscript production, print culture, architecture and inscriptions, urban space, and mass media. Reading texts (broadly construed) in relation to their concrete conditions of production, presentation, and reception, students work across disciplines such as history, anthropology, theater, and the visual arts.
• Document, Monument, Archive • Urbanism • Utopian Space •Architecture, Sacred and Profane • Fashion • Ritual and magic • Archaeology • Commodities and Commodification • Film and Digital Media • Physiologies of vision • Mise-en-page • Sound Cultures • Performance Studies Faculty working in this area: Murray Baumgarten Karen Bassi A. Hunter Bivens Louis Chude-Sokei Nathaniel Deutsch Mary-Kay Gamel Wlad Godzich Jody Greene Sharon Kinoshita Tyrus Miller Loisa Nygaard Micah Perks Juan Poblete Daniel Selden Deanna Shemek Richard Terdiman CRITICAL THEORIES
From its oldest surviving artifacts, literature has always been self-reflexive. It thereby provokes questions concerning the nature of authorship, meaning, and interpretation. Further, it invites inquiry into the social, political, and historical contexts that inform artistic and cultural expression and shape how they are read. Students explore a wide variety of critical perspectives, ranging from classical aesthetic theory to humanist and posthumanist philosophies of art and identity. They reflect on the nature of interpretation and critical thought, as well as on the production of literature as a field of inquiry in dialogue with other disciplines and discourses.
• Queer Theory • Race, Ethnicity • Feminism, Gender • Spatial and Social Theory • Marxisms • Psychoanalysis • Anthropology • Humanism and Posthumanism • Rhetorical Theory and Deconstruction • Literature and Religion • Literature and Science • Literature and Philosophy • Theory of History, Historiography • Colonial and Postcolonial • Drama and Performance Theory Faculty working in this area: Karen Bassi A. Hunter Bivens Louis Chude-Sokei Christopher Connery Nathaniel Deutsch Carla Freccero Mary-Kay Gamel Wlad Godzich Jody Greene John O. Jordan Norma Klahn H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal Tyrus Miller Juan Poblete Daniel Selden Deanna Shemek Richard Terdiman The Department of Literature at UCSC is affiliated with a range of university programs (Creative Writing, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, Jewish Studies, Shakespeare Santa Cruz) and centers (The Dickens Project, The Center for Cultural Studies). Inquiries should be directed to:
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