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Russell Samolsky
Assistant Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-7544
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: rsamolsky@english.ucsb.edu
Office: SH 2724
Availability:
Office Hours: Th 1-3
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| Russell Samolsky is assistant professor of Anglophone literature in the English Department at UCSB. His research interests include South African literature, Jewish studies, animal studies, and the global humanities. His book, Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, which takes account of the complex relationship between past apocalyptic texts and future catastrophic events, will be published by Fordham University Press. His current book project, “Killing Dogs,” examines the place of the dog in the contemporary literary and theoretical discourse on the question of the animal.
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee (forthcoming, Fordham UP)
- "Acts of Mourning: Art and the Lives of Animals in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello," J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory, eds. Elleke Boehmer, Katy Iddiols, and Robert Eaglestone (London: Continuum, 2009)
- "The Time is Out of Joint: Hamlet, Messianism, and the Specter of Apocalypse," English Language Notes 46:1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 29-46.
- "Animal Ethics," The European Legacy 12:4 (2007)
- "On Teaching South African Literature in the Age of Terror," Safundi: The Journal of South African & American Comparative Studies 16 (October 2004)
- "Ghostly Letters: Hamlet, Derrida and Apocalyptic Discourse,” Oxford Literary Review 25 (2003)
- “Metaleptic Machines: Kafka, Kaballah, Shoah,” Modern Judaism 19:2 (1999)
- “Writing Violence: Bodies and Signs in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe,” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 1:1 (1993)
- Review of Consequences of Theory, Jonathan Arac and Barbara Johnson, eds., English Language Notes 29:1 (September 1991): 90-93
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Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
Title |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 104B |
British Literature from 1900 to present |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: Animal Theory |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 190AL |
Literature in English Outside England and the United States
: Post-apartheid South African Literature |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 165LA |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 165WD |
Topics in Literature
: SEE 165LA |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 104B |
British Literature from 1900 to present |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 104BS |
Seminar for British Literature from 1900 to present
: Honors Seminar |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 165LA |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Spring 2008 |
COMPLIT 36 |
Global Humanities
: The Lives of Dead Bodies |
| Spring 2008 |
ENGL 165LA |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 104B |
British Literature from 1900 to present |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 165AT |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster: Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Animal Theory |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 187ML |
Studies in Modern Literature
: Narrative Reloading: Repetition and Difference |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Post-apartheid South African literature |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 104B |
British Literature from 1900 to present |
| Fall 2005 |
ENGL 165 |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster - Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Fall 2005 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: J.M. Coetzee: Art, Ethics, and Biopolitics |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 165HR |
Topics in Literature
: Writing the Disaster -- Modern Literature and Atrocity |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Theory and the Ethical Turn |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 190AL |
Literature in English Outside England and the United States
: Contemporary South African Literature |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other |
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