Professional Title:
Professor
Email:
Phone:
(209) 233-1072
Office:
Classroom & Office Building - 2, 377
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Department:
Education:
- PhD, 1989 — University of California, Berkeley
- A.B., 1980 — Brown University
Research Interests:
- American literature and culture — from 18th century poet Joel Barlow to the television cartoon "Beavis and Butt-Head"
- Ethical and esthetic debates of the 19th century, concentrating on the works of Mark Twain, American literary humor, literary sentimentalism and domesticity
- Affective neuroscience
- Literary aesthetics
