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Alan Liu
Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-3478
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: ayliu@english.ucsb.edu
Personal Homepage: [link]
Office: SH 2607
Availability: In residence F, W, S
Office Hours: By appointment.
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"I am interested in the cultural life of information or, more broadly, of
contemporary knowledge work. My specific question concerns the role of
literature in that cultural life. What is the future of literature when all
culture is increasingly the culture of information and when even literary
scholars subordinate literature to an apparent clone of information:
cultural context?"
--from "The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture
of Information" (Time and the Literary, ed. Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch; Routledge, 2002) |
Alan Liu is a Professor in the English Department at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1988. He received
his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and taught in the English Department
and British Studies Program at Yale University from 1979-87. His central interests
include information culture, new media, literary
theory, cultural studies, and British Romantic literature and art. He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of
History (Stanford Univ. Press, 1989), The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work
and the Culture of Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004), and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008). Some of his web
projects include: The Voice of the Shuttle,
Palinurus: The Academy and the
Corporation, The
Romantic Chronology (co-edited with Laura Mandell), and The Agrippa Files. He is principal investigator of the University of California's Transliteracies Project, a multi-campus research group on online reading practices and technologies, and founder of
the UCSB English Department's curricular and research development project titled Transcriptions:
Literary History and the Culture of Information. He also co-directs (with
Prof. Rita
Raley) the Literature
and Culture of Information specialization in the UCSB English Department
and was co-organizer of the department's Public
Humanities Initiative. His recent courses include Literature+ (undergraduate and graduate versions), Literature
and the Culture of Information, Landscape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace, Historical
Interpretation, New
Media and the Aesthetics of the New, Hyperliterature,
Literary Theory: Formalism to Postmodernism, and Reading Wordsworth.
For recent publications, talks, and interviews, see Alan Liu's c.v.-blog: 
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Areas of Interest |
- Literature and New Media/Information Culture
- British Romantic Literature and Art
- Literary and Cultural Theory (especially formalism, cultural criticism, postindustrialism)
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Books and Recent Articles |
For full list with links to online descriptions, excerpts, or complete texts, see liu.english.ucsb.edu.
 The
Laws of Cool: The Culture of Information (University of
Chicago Press, 2004)- Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univ. Press, 1989)
- "Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History,"
Acts of Narrative, ed. Carol Jacobs and Henry Sussman, Stanford Univ.
Press, 2003
- "Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism,"
South Atlantic Quarterly 2003
- "The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information",
Time and the Literary, ed. Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch;
Routledge, 2002
- "Knowledge in the Age of Knowledge Work," Profession 1999
- "The Downsizing of Knowledge: Knowledge Work and Literary History,"
abridged and edited by Randolf Starn, Doreen B. Townsend Center Occasional
Papers (Berkeley, Calif.: Townsend Center, 1998)
- "Globalizing the Humanities: 'The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for
Humanities Research'," Humanities Collections 1, no. 1 (1998)
- "The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning," Studies in Romanticism
35 (1996)
- Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism
of Detail," Representations 32 (Fall 1990)
- "The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism," ELH 56 (1989)
- "Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism," Yale Journal
of Criticism 2, no. 2 (Spring 1989)
- "The Interdisciplinary War Machine (Die interdisziplinäre Kriegsmaschine),"
published in German translation in Texte zur Kunste, No.12 (Nov. 1993)
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Current Projects |
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Recent Course Offerings |
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Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
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| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium
: Doctoral Colloquium |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Literature Plus: Cross-Disciplinary Models of Literary Interpretation |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium
: Doctoral Colloquium |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium
: Doctoral Colloquium |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 149 |
Media and Information Culture |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium |
| Winter 2008 |
ENGL 149 |
Media and Information Culture
: Literature Plus (Cross-Disciplinary Models of Literary Interpretation) |
| Winter 2008 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Literature Plus: Cross-Disciplinary Models of Literary Interpretation |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 194 |
Research Seminar in Literature and Culture of Information |
| Winter 2007 |
ENGL 113MI |
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism |
| Winter 2007 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Landscape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace |
| Fall 2006 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium
: New Media and the Reading Experience--New Approaches to Textual Forms, Interfaces, and Social Interactions |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 113 |
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
: From Formalism to Postmodernism |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 194 |
Research Seminar in Literature and Culture of Information |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Textuality and New Media Ecologies, 1600-2000 |
| Winter 2006 |
ENGL 591 |
Doctoral Colloquium
: Doctoral Colloquium |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 113MI |
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Landscape and the Social Imaginary: Romantic Landscape and Cyberspace |
| Fall 2004 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Spring 2004 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: New Media and the Aesthetics of the New |
| Spring 2004 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 592 |
Transcriptions Colloquium |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Reading Wordsworth |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Historical Interpretation |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 593 |
Graduate Technology Colloquium |
| Spring 2002 |
ENGL 113MI |
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
: Formalism to Cultural Criticism |
| Spring 2002 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Literature & Graphic Design, 1900-2000 |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 233 |
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
: Romantic Landscape |
| Spring 2001 |
ENGL 165HL |
Topics in Literature
: Hyperliterature |
| Spring 2001 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Wordsworth |
| Winter 2001 |
ENGL 25 |
Introduction to Literature and the Culture of Information
: The Culture of Information |
| Fall 2000 |
ENGL 236 |
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
: Hypertext literature: Theories, Fictions, Poetics |
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