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Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-2226
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]
Office: SH 2501
Availability:
Office Hours: R 1:30 - 3:00 (in SH 4515)
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| Carl Gutiérrez-Jones is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1990. He served as department Chair from 2001-2004. He is currently the Director of the Center for Chicano Studies at UCSB. He pursued his undergraduate degree in English and American literature at Stanford University and his Ph.D at Cornell University. His interests include American studies; Chicano studies; contemporary fiction; critical race studies and the culture of human rights. He is the author of Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury (2001), Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Narrative and Legal Discourse (1995), as well as numerous articles on literature, film, legal studies and cultural theory. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2000-2005). Professor Gutiérrez-Jones is currently at work on a book that examines the literature of human rights. |
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Areas of Interest |
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Critical Race Studies
- Chicano Studies
- Literature of Human Rights
- Science Fiction
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric and Injury (New York University Press, 2001)
- Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Narrative and Legal Discourse (University of California Press 1995)
- Rebellious Reading: The Dynamics of Chicana/o Cultural Literacy (Editor). Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB, 2004.
- "Paranoid Designs: Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child and "The Squalor of the Truth." Forthcoming, Concentric.
- "Encyclopedic Arc: Gravity's Rainbow and Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia." Forthcoming, Pynchon Notes.
- "Humor, Literacy and Trauma in Chicano Culture." Comparative Literature Studies, Vol 40, No. 2 (2003): 112-126.
- “Colorblindness and Acting Out,” In The Futures of American Studies (Eds. Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman) Duke University Press, (2002): 248-265.
- "Contracting Chicano Culture," Journal of American Studies 12 (Fall 2000): 13-24.
- “Injury by Design,” Cultural Critique 40 (Fall 1998): 73-102.
- "The New Western History: Theory and Trauma in the Work of Patricia Limerick," Arizona Quarterly 53:2 (Summer 1997): 135-153; reprinted in The New Western History: An Assessment Edited by Forrest Robinson (University of Arizona Press, 1998): 135-152.
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Current Projects |
- Executive Board Member of informal math and science education project for underserved youth
- Coordinator of the Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
- Member, ImaginArte Project (promoting Chicano visual arts scholarship, exhibition and education)
- Co-director, Chancellor's Working Group on Immigration Issues
- President, UCSB Faculty Association
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Recent Course Offerings |
- Human Rights and Literature
- Science Fiction
- The Literature of Paranoia
- Globalization and Culture
- Migration and Culture
- Contemporary American Fiction
- Border Culture
- Legal Discourse and Popular Culture
- Critical Race Studies
- History, Politics and Chicano Culture
- Clones and Bioethics
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Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
Title |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: Literature and the Human Rights Movement |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Immigration Narratives |
| Summer (A) 2009 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Human Rights Discourse |
| Summer (B) 2008 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Summer (B) 2008 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Contemporary U.S. Fiction |
| Winter 2008 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Human Rights Discourse |
| Winter 2007 |
ENGL 165HR |
Topics in Literature
: Human Rights |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Post-WWII U.S. Fiction |
| Summer (B) 2006 |
ENGL 140 |
Contemporary American Literature
: Contemporary American Fiction |
| Summer (B) 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Paranoid Designs |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 192 |
Science Fiction |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 140 |
Contemporary American Literature
: U.S. Fiction after WWII |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Paranoid Designs |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: U.S. Fiction after WWII |
| Summer (A) 2004 |
ENGL 140 |
Contemporary American Literature |
| Spring 2004 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: American Fiction after WWII |
| Spring 2003 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Chicana/o Cultural Studies |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: American Fiction After WWII |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: American Fiction after World War II |
| Winter 2001 |
ENGL 134CH |
Studies in the Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
: Chicano Literature |
| Fall 2000 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Race and Culture in the Americas |
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