Maurizia Boscagli

Janis
Caldwell

Ph.D., Brown University, 1990

Maurizia Boscagli

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

Tel: (805) 893-8867
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: boscagli@english.ucsb.edu

Office: SH 2707
Availability: In residence F, W, S
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"Morante shows us that the private and the public are not opposites: history directly shapes the lives of its individual subjects, and conversely, the apparently meaningless individual is really part of history. The continual exchange between the general and the particular, the "official" and the banal, is signified and anticipated by the title: History: A Novel... History, as Morante implies, is a piece of fiction, artificial because narrated."

--from "Brushing Benjamin against the Grain: Elsa Morante and the Jetztzeit of Marginal History," in Revising the Canon (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996)

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Maurizia Boscagli is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1990. Her central interests include: gender studies and feminist theory; the body; theories of subjectivity; British and european Modernism; fin de siecle literature; critical and cultural theory; and theories of mass culture. She is the author of Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century (1996); a translation of the book Constituent Power, by Antonio Negri(forthcoming); and various articles on Masculinity, Walter Benjamin, and James Joyce.

Areas of Interest

Gender studies and feminist theory
The body
Theories of subjectivity
British and European Modernism
Fin-de-siecle literature
Critical and cultural theory
Theories of mass culture

Books and Recent Articles

Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century (Westview Press, 1996)
Translation of Toni Negri's Insurgencies:Constituent Power and the Modern State (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
"The Squat, the Urn, the Tearoom, and the Designer Bathroom: Home to Class in Thatcher's England" in Burning Down the House (Westview Press, 1996)
"Brushing Benjamin Against the Grain." in Revising the Canon (Penn State, 1996)
"A Moving Story: Masculine Tears and the Humanities of Televised Emotions." Discourse, 1992-3
"Unaccompanied Ladies" differences, 1990

Current Projects

Currently working on a book-length project entitled "Sentimental Economies: Modernist Affect and the Value of Things."

Recent Course Offerings

Feminist Theory
Modernism, Fetishism and Consumer Culture
Modernism: Culture, Aesthetics and Sexual Politics

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar
Spring 2010	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
Winter 2010	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (A) 2009	ENGL 165WT	Topics in Literature : Cityscapes: Urban Culture from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis
Spring 2009	ENGL 122BC	Cultural Representations : The Culture of Meanness: Britain in the 1980s and 1990s
Spring 2009	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Cityscapes: Urban Culture from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis
Fall 2008	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Fall 2008	ENGL 165WT	Topics in Literature
Fall 2008	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : Stuff, Things, Theory: For A Materialist Critique of the Object
Summer (B) 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Winter 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Winter 2008	ENGL 234	Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature : Modernism and Modernity
Fall 2007	ENGL 100SO	Honors Seminar : for Women and Representation
Fall 2007	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Fall 2007	ENGL 165WT	Topics in Literature : Women Who Did: Femininity and Transgression
Summer (B) 2007	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (B) 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Spring 2007	ENGL 122BC	Cultural Representations : The Culture of Meanness: Britain in the 80's and 90's.
Spring 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and Gender
Winter 2007	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation : Women Representations
Fall 2006	ENGL 165FT	Topics in Literature : Women Who Did: Femininity and Transgression
Fall 2006	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : Materiality, Materialism, and Culture
Summer (B) 2006	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (B) 2006	ENGL 122CM	Cultural Representations
Winter 2006	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation : Women and Literature
Winter 2006	ENGL 165WR	Topics in Literature : Women Who Did: Femininity and Transgression
Fall 2005	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Fall 2005	ENGL 234	Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature : Excessive Modernities: Production, Aesthetics, and the Useless
Summer (B) 2005	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (B) 2005	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Spring 2005	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Spring 2005	ENGL 186	Modernism : Modernisms and the Culture of Modernity
Winter 2005	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : The Political Economy of the Body
Fall 2004	ENGL 122BC	Cultural Representations : British Culture
Fall 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Textuality and the Body
Summer (B) 2004	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (B) 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Spring 2004	ENGL 234	Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature : Modernism and Modernity
Winter 2004	ENGL 114WR	Women and Literature
Winter 2004	ENGL 165BT	Topics in Literature : Textuality and the Body
Fall 2003	ENGL 122BC	Cultural Representations : British Culture
Fall 2003	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Summer (A) 2003	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Summer (A) 2003	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar
Spring 2003	ENGL 114WR	Women and Representation
Spring 2003	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : Feminist Theory/Critical Theory
Fall 2002	ENGL 122BC	Cultural Representations : British Culture in the 1980's
Fall 2002	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Spring 2002	ENGL 122CM	Cultural Representations : Culture of Meaness
Spring 2002	WMST 150	Modern Sex and Modern Love
Winter 2002	ENGL 114RP	Women and Literature : Women and Representation
Winter 2002	ENGL 234	Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature : Theories of Modernity: Walter Benjamin
Fall 2001	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Modernism and the New Woman
Winter 2001	ENGL 236	Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory : Feminist Theory
Fall 2000	ENGL 114WR	Women and Literature : Women and Representation
Fall 2000	ENGL 122MB	Cultural Representations : The Culture of Meanness in Contemporary British Culture

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