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Stephanie LeMenager

 Shirley Geok-Lin
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Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999

Stephanie LeMenager

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

Tel: (805) 893-4703
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: slemen@english.ucsb.edu

Office: SH 2505
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Office Hours: M, F 3-4 pm 		Faculty Photo "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
—Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson's Calendar

"The expression of wonder stands for all that cannot be understood, that can scarcely be believed. It calls attention to the problem of credibility and at the same time insists upon the undeniability, the exigency of experience."
—Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions

Stephanie LeMenager is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught since 2000. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1999. Her central interests include 19th and 20th century U.S. literature and cultures, literatures of the North American West, environmental theories and representations, and rhetorics of slavery and freedom. She is the author of several articles and Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth Century United States. This book won the 2005 Thomas J. Lyon Award for Best Book in Western American Literary Studies. Professor LeMenager is currently at work on her second book project, Weather Events: Climate and Culture in North America. In Spring 2007, Professor LeMenager was named Director of the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (ACGCC).
 

Areas of Interest
  • 19th and 20th century U.S. literature and cultures
  • Literatures of the North American West
  • Environmental theories and representations
  • Rhetorics of slavery and freedom
 

Books and Recent Articles
  • "Trading Stories: Washington Irving and the Global West"
    • in ALH 15 (Winter 2003): 683-708.
  • "Floating Capital: The Trouble with Whiteness on Twain's Mississippi"
    • in ELH 71 (Summer 2004): 405-432.
  • Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States (U. of Nebraska Press, 2004; paperback, 2008)
  • "Narratives from Nowhere"
    • in L'Echange: modalites et representations (Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2005): 63-78.
  • "Marginal Landscapes: Revolutionary Abolitionists and Environmental Imagination"
    • in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 7(Fall 2005): 49-56.
  • "Geographical Morality: Patriotism and Place in De Forest's Civil War Realism," American Literature (Sept. 2009).
  • "Imagining the Frontier," in Leonard Cassuto, Clare Eby, and Benjamin Reiss, eds., The Cambridge History of the American Novel (forthcoming 2009).
 

Current Projects
  • Weather Events: Climate and Culture in North America (second book project)
 

Recent Course Offerings
  • The Worlds of Mark Twain
  • Slavery and the American Imagination
  • Thoreau: A Seminar
  • Westerns: Literature and Films of the American West
  • Literature and the Environmnent
  • Fictions of the City

Courses

Quarter Course Title
Winter 2010 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment
Winter 2010 ENGL 165AC Topics in Literature :  American Cultures in Global Context - Education, Literature, Culture
Fall 2009 ENGL 103A American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2009 ENGL 103AS Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2009 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment :  Literature in the Era of Environmentalism
Spring 2009 ENGL 274C American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Winter 2009 ENGL 103A American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2009 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Dickinson and Whitman
Winter 2009 ENGL 274B American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Fall 2008 ENGL 274A American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Spring 2008 ENGL 274C American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Winter 2008 ENGL 131AW Studies in American Literature :  Western American Literature
Winter 2008 ENGL 235 Studies in American Literature :  Region, Nation, Empire
Winter 2008 ENGL 274B American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Fall 2007 ENGL 103A American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2007 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Thoreau
Fall 2007 ENGL 274A American Cultures and Global Contexts :  Global Ecologies
Spring 2007 ENGL 103A American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2007 ENGL 103AS Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2007 ENGL 235 Studies in American Literature :  American Romanticism and Environmental Imagination
Winter 2007 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations :  U.S. Literature in the Era of Environmentalism
Spring 2006 ENGL 235 Studies in American Literature :  Region, Nation, Empire
Winter 2006 ENGL 103A American Literature from 1789 to 1900 :  Writing the Nation
Winter 2006 ENGL 103AS Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2005 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment
Fall 2005 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Thoreau
Spring 2005 ENGL 132MT Studies in American Writers :  Mark Twain
Spring 2005 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Imagining California
Winter 2005 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment
Fall 2004 ENGL 131AW Studies in American Literature :  American Westerns
Fall 2004 ENGL 235 Studies in American Literature :  Region, Nation, Empire: U.S. Literature After the Civil War
Spring 2003 ENGL 132MT Studies in American Writers :  Mark Twain
Spring 2003 ENGL 235 Studies in American Literature :  Slavery and the American Renaissance
Winter 2003 ENGL 133AW Studies in American Regional Literature :  American Westerns
Winter 2003 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  American Westerns
Fall 2002 ENGL 122NE Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment :  Nature and the Environment
Spring 2002 ENGL 131MT Studies in American Literature :  Mark Twain
Spring 2002 ENGL 131SI Studies in American Literature :  Slavery and American Imagination
Winter 2002 ENGL 35 Introduction to Literature and the Environment
Winter 2002 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Thoreau
Winter 2001 ENGL 131SI Studies in American Literature
Winter 2001 ENGL 132MT Studies in American Writers :  The Worlds of Mark Twain
Fall 2000 ENGL 131LE Studies in American Literature :  Literature and Environment
Fall 2000 ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar :  Fictions of the City, NY & LA
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