E. Heckendorn Cook

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Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1990

E. Heckendorn Cook

Associate Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

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Email: ecook@english.ucsb.edu
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Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught since 1996. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1990, and has also taught at Yale University. Her central interests include Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural studies. She is the author of Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (1996); and of articles on early modern scientific and poetic conventions for representing the natural world. Professor Cook is currently at work on projects in early modern women writers and ways of reading nature, 1780s-1820s.

Areas of Interest

Eighteenth-Century British and French literature and cultural studies

Books and Recent Articles

"'Perfect' Flowers, Monstrous Women: Eighteenth-C. Botany and the Modern Gendered Subject" in 'Defects': Engendering the Modern Body, eds. H. Deutsch and F. Nussbaum (Univ. of Michigan Press, forthcoming)
"Crown Forests and Female Georgic: Frances Burney and the Reconstruction of Britishness" in The Country and the City Revisited, eds. D. Landry, G. Maclean, and J. Ward (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (Stanford University Press, 1996)
"The Limping Woman and the Public Sphere" in Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century, eds. D. v. Muecke and V. Kelley (Stanford University Press, 1994)

Current Projects

"Discourses of Nature," 1780s-1830s, including natural history, landscape aesthetics, and property law
Gothic narratives, nationalism, and commodity culture

Recent Course Offerings

Women Writers, 1650s-1760s
Epistolary Fictions
Natural Histories: Landscape and Literature in the Eighteenth Century
The British Gothic Novel, 1760s-1830s
Survey: British Literature, 1660-1780

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Nature and Value in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Spring 2010	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : Nature and Value in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Winter 2010	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2010	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Spring 2009	ENGL 128EN	Literary Genres : Going Postal: Epistolary Narrative
Winter 2009	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2009	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789 : Honors Seminar
Fall 2008	ENGL 114EM	Women and Literature : Early Modern Women Writers, 1650s-1760s
Fall 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Representing Nature: Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop
Winter 2008	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2008	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Fall 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : "Writing 'Nature' in the Eighteenth Century"
Fall 2007	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : Poetry and the Public, 1650-1750
Winter 2007	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2007	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Fall 2006	ENGL 114EM	Women and Literature
Fall 2006	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Representations of Nature
Summer (A) 2006	ENGL 165MM	Topics in Literature
Winter 2006	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2006	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789 : Honors Seminar
Summer (A) 2005	ENGL 165MM	Topics in Literature : Making Up Monsters
Summer (A) 2005	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : "Natural Representations: Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop"
Spring 2005	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : Poetry and Print Culture, 1650s-1750s
Fall 2004	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Fall 2004	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Spring 2004	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Winter 2004	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Fall 2003	ENGL 114EM	Women and Literature : Going Public: Early Modern Women
Fall 2003	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Spring 2002	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : Poetry and Print Culture, 1650s-1750s
Winter 2002	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Winter 2002	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Spring 2001	ENGL 114EM	Women and Literature : Women Writers 1650-1760
Spring 2001	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Winter 2001	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Fall 2000	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium

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