William Warner

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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1977

William Warner

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

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Email: warner@english.ucsb.edu
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William Warner is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, and has also taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo. His central interests include Eighteenth century British and American literature and cultural studies, the novel, literary and cultural theory, media studies, and law and literature (free speech and censorship). He is the author of Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (1979); Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1986); and Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading in Eighteenth Century Britain (1998). Professor Warner is currently at work on the Transcriptions Project, and a project on enlightenment and contemporary IT culture.

Areas of Interest

Eighteenth-century British and American literature and cultural studies
History and theory of Media
Digital Culture

Books and Recent Articles

Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (Yale University Press, 1979)
Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cornell University Press, 1986)
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (University of California Press, 1998)
"The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History," ELH 59 (1992)
"Social Power and the Novel: Foucault and Transparent Literary History," Eighteenth Century Fiction 3:3 (1991)
"The Resistance to Popular Culture," American Literary History 2:4 (1990)
"Dior's Designs," Word & Image 2:3 (1985)
"The Transport of the Novel," (Introduction with Diedre Lynch), Cultural Institutions of the Novel (Duke University Press, 1996)
"Spectacular Action: Rambo, Reaganism, and the Cultural Articulations of the Hero," Cultural Studies, ed. Nelson, Grossberg, and Triechler (Routledge, 1992)
"Staging Readers Reading," ECF 2000:1

Current Projects

Media Determinism
The Digital Cultures Project: Director of University of California
Multi-Campus Research Group

Recent Course Offerings

History and Theory of Media Culture
Science Fiction

Cyborg Genealogies: the Gothic

Enlightenment Communications

Digitalizing Culture

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 172	Studies in the Enlightenment : American Revolution
Spring 2008	ENGL 149	Media and Information Culture : Media History of the American Revolution
Spring 2008	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Winter 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Jane Austen and the Rise of the Novel
Winter 2008	ENGL 591	Doctoral Colloquium
Spring 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Jane Austen and the Rise of the Novel
Winter 2007	ENGL 165AR	Topics in Literature : American Revolution
Spring 2006	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : The History and Theory of Media Culture: From Print to the Internet
Winter 2005	ENGL 149	Media and Information Culture
Spring 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : The Rise of Novels
Spring 2004	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : The Rise of the Novels: From the English Novel to the World Novel
Winter 2004	ENGL 147MC	Media History and Theory : Media Culture - Double Credit
Winter 2003	ENGL 122FS	Cultural Representations : Free Speech, Censorship and Copyright from the Declaration of Independence to Napster
Winter 2003	ENGL 165MC	Topics in Literature : Media Culture: Film, Radio, Television, and the Internet
Fall 2002	ENGL 172	Studies in the Enlightenment : The American Revolution
Fall 2002	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : Atlantic Culture: Empire, Colonization, and Rebellion
Spring 2002	ENGL 192	Science Fiction
Winter 2002	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : The History and Theory of 20th Century Media
Spring 2001	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Digitalizing Culture
Spring 2001	ENGL 235	Studies in American Literature : Digitalizing Culture
Winter 2001	ENGL 102	English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789 : Enlightenment Communications
Winter 2001	ENGL 102S	Seminar for English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789 : Honors Section for Enlightenment Communications

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