Mark Maslan

Mara
Mills

Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1991

Mark Maslan

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

Tel: (805) 893-8833
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: mmaslan@english.ucsb.edu

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Mark Maslan is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, and his central interests include American literature; contemporary literature; and theories of collective identity. He is the author of Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001). Professor Maslan is currently at work on a book about false testimony and postmodern culture.

Areas of Interest

American literature
Contemporary Literature
Poetry and Poetics

Books and Recent Articles

Counterfactual Realities: A special forum in Representations 98 coedited w/ Catherine Gallagher and Paul St. Amour (Spring 2007)

“Telling to Live the Tale: Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris, and Postmodern Nationalism” Representations 98

"Joseph Ellis's Vietnam Testimony" Biography 29:4 (fall 2006)

"The Faking of the Americans: Passing, Trauma, and National Identity in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain” MLQ 66:3 (September 2005): 365-89

Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001)

"Whitman, Sexuality, and Poetic Authority," Raritan 17:4 (Spring 1998)

"Whitman and His Double," ALH (1994)

"Whitman's 'Strange Hand': Body as Text in Drum-Taps," ELH, (1991)

"Foucault and Pragmatism" Raritan (1988)

Current Projects

"False Witness: Counterfactual Testimony and Postmodern Truth" (book)
"Jewish Non-Jewish: Philosemitism and Testimonial Fiction" (book)

Recent Course Offerings

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Testimonial Fiction: Roth, Sebald, Coetzee
American Literature 1789-1900
Philip Roth
Literary Theory from Difference to Discontinuity

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Winter 2010	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2010	ENGL 103AS	Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2009	ENGL 132PR	Studies in American Writers : Philip Roth
Fall 2009	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Whitman and Dickinson
Spring 2009	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2009	ENGL 103AS	Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900 : Honors Seminar
Winter 2009	ENGL 235	Studies in American Literature : 19th Century American Poetry
Fall 2008	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism : Literary Theory from Difference to Discontinuity
Fall 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Testimonial Fiction: Roth, Sebald, Coetzee
Spring 2008	ENGL 137A	Poetry in America before 1900
Winter 2008	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2008	ENGL 103AS	Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2007	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism : Difference and Discontinuity
Fall 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Testimonial Fiction: Roth, Sebald, Coetzee
Spring 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : The Figure of the Jew
Winter 2007	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
Winter 2007	ENGL 235	Studies in American Literature : The Novels of Philip Roth
Fall 2006	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2006	ENGL 132PR	Studies in American Writers
Spring 2005	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Versions of Jewishness in Contemporary Culture
Winter 2005	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism : Literary Theory from Language to History
Winter 2005	ENGL 132PR	Studies in American Writers : Philip Roth
Fall 2004	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2004	ENGL 234	Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature : Theories and Fictions of Diaspora
Spring 2004	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
Winter 2004	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2004	ENGL 137A	Poetry in America before 1900
Fall 2003	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Poetry of Sexuality
Fall 2003	ENGL 235	Studies in American Literature : 19th Century American Poetry
Spring 2003	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
Winter 2003	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2003	ENGL 190AS	Literature in English Outside England and the United States : South African Literature
Fall 2002	ENGL 137A	Poetry in America before 1900
Fall 2002	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Poetry and Sexuality
Winter 2002	ENGL 137A	Poetry in America before 1900
Winter 2002	ENGL 190AS	Literature in English Outside England and the United States : South African Anglophone Fiction, 1948 to the Present
Fall 2001	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2001	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism : Post-Structuralism to the Present
Spring 2001	ENGL 113PS	Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism : Post-structuralism to the Present
Winter 2001	ENGL 137A	Poetry in America before 1900 :
Fall 2000	ENGL 103A	American Literature from 1789 to 1900 :
Fall 2000	ENGL 103AS	Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2000	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Poetry and Sexuality

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