Kay Young

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992

Kay Young

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

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Kay Young is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1992. Currently, she is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in LA. Her central interests include Literature and the Mind; The 19th-Century English Novel; Aesthetics; Narrative; and Comedy. She is author of Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation and Comedy (2001); various essays on the works of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Søren Kierkegaard, and Stephen Sondheim collected in the forthcoming or already published volumes, The Talk in Jane Austen, Inside/Out: Representing Consciousness in Narrative, The Ethical Aesthetic: Perspectives on Kierkegaard’s Either/Or, and Reading Sondheim. Also author of “Immagionado la coscienza di Emma” (“Imagining the Consciousness of Emma” in a special volume on “Il Valore Cognitivo Dell’Arte” (“The Cognitive Value of Art”) in il cannocchiale 2 2000, and “Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Steward Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic” in Classics in Film and Fiction. Co-author with Jeffrey Saver of, “The Neurology of Narrative” in SubStance 94/95. Professor Young's forthcoming book on consciousness and the 19th-century English novel is entitled, Imagining Minds: Austen, Eliot, Hardy, and the Aesthetic of Consciousness, fall 2010, Ohio State UP.

Areas of Interest

Literature and the Mind
The 19th-Century English Novel
Aesthetics
Psychoanalysis
Philosophical and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative
Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s
The Musical
Comedy

Books and Recent Articles

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation and Comedy (Ohio State University Press, 2001)
"Feeling Embodied: Consciousness,Persuasion, and Jane Austen," in Narrative (January 2003)

"Middlemarch and the Problem of Other Minds Heard," in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (Volume 14, Number 3, July-September 2003)

"A Woman's Space is in the Home: Architecture, Privacy, and Melodrama in Pamela and Gaslight," in Partial Answers (Volume2, Number 2, June 2004)

"Erotic Natures:John Muir and I Come to California," in ISLE (Volume 15.2 Summer 2008)

"The Neurology of Narrative", co-authored with Jeffrey Saver, in SubStance (March 2001)

"Imagining Emma's Consciousness", in Il Cannochiale, N.3.2000, transalted into Italian as "immaginando la Coscienza di Emma

"Leopold Bloom Walks and Jimmy Stewart Stares: On Motion, Genre and the Classic" in Classics in Film and Fiction 5 (Pluto Press, 2000)

"'Everyday a Little Death': Stephen Sondheim's Un-Musicaling of Marriage" in Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Sandor Goodhart (Garland Press, 1999)

"The Male-Female Comedy Team" in Performing Gender and Comedy, ed. Shannon Hengen (Gordon and Breach, 1998)

Current Projects

*Imagining Minds: Austen, Eliot, Hardy, and the Aesthetic of Consciousness* (on mind, body, emotion and the 19th-century English novel), forthcoming, Ohio State University press, 2010
*Metaphor/Metamorphosis: On Longing and the Transformational Object* (a book on the representation of change in narrative)

Recent Course Offerings

Romantic Comedy
Austen, Eliot, Hardy
Theorizing the Adaptation: Phenomenologies of Reading
Old Comedy/New Comedy
Reading Jane Austen
Modern Thought
Middlemarch
The English Novel, 1800-1850

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Winter 2010	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Jane Austen
Winter 2010	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : George Elliot
Fall 2009	ENGL 128CM	Literary Genres : The Comic Turn of the Mind: Aristophanes to Larry David
Fall 2009	ENGL 181MT	Studies in the Nineteenth Century : Modern Thought and Literature
Spring 2009	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : George Eliot
Spring 2009	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Minding Austen, Eliot, and Hardy
Winter 2009	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Jane Austen
Winter 2009	ENGL 181MT	Studies in the Nineteenth Century : Modern Thought and Literature
Spring 2008	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Jane Austen
Spring 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : The Comic Turn of Mind
Winter 2008	ENGL 181MT	Studies in the Nineteenth Century : Modern Thought
Spring 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Middlemarch
Winter 2007	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : The 19th Century Novel
Spring 2006	ENGL 151TH	Studies in British Writers : Thomas Hardy
Spring 2006	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Beauty
Winter 2006	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers
Fall 2004	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Embodiment and the 19th-Century English Novel
Spring 2004	ENGL 151GE	Studies in British Writers : Middlemarch
Spring 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Beauty
Winter 2004	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : The 19th Century Novel
Spring 2003	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Beauty
Winter 2003	COMPLIT 124	Old Comedy/ New Comedy
Winter 2003	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Aesthetic Experience I: The Feeling of the Victorian Novel
Fall 2002	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Reading Jane Austen
Fall 2002	ENGL 187MT	Studies in Modern Literature : Modern Thought and Literature
Spring 2002	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Jane Austen
Spring 2002	ENGL 187MT	Studies in Modern Literature : Modern Thought
Winter 2002	COMPLIT 256	Critical Traditions : Embodiment
Spring 2001	COMPLIT 124	Old Comedy/ New Comedy :
Spring 2001	ENGL 151JA	Studies in British Writers : Jane Austen
Winter 2001	ENGL 126B	Survey of British Fiction II
Fall 2000	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Middlemarch
Fall 2000	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Austen, Eliot, and Hardy

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