Karen泭Jacobs
- Associate Professor
Karen Jacobs泭received her BA from Washington 勛圖厙 (1982) and her PhD from the 勛圖厙 of California, Berkeley (1993). Dr. Jacobs specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, visual culture studies, and critical theory. She is the new editor of the journal泭Genders Future Tense. She is the author of泭The Eyes Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture泭(Cornell 2001); the editor of the泭English Language Notes泭special issue,泭Photography and Literature泭(2006), and泭Imaginary Cartographies(2014); and the editor of a translation of French critic Liliane Louvels泭Poetics of the Iconotext泭(Ashgate 2011). She has also written on queer theory, collective memory, and public art. She is currently completing two books:泭Afterimages: Nabokov Sebald Cole; and泭Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space, for which she recently won an NEH. In Summer 2014 she received the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her article Sebalds Apparitional Nabokov, which appears in the journal泭Twentieth-Century Literature.
Areas of Specialty泭
- American Literature
- Environmental Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary Theory
- Modern and Contemporary Literature