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Elliott Butler-Evans
Emeritus
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-3927
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: ebevans@english.ucsb.edu
Office: SH 4714
Availability:
Office Hours: Please E-mail
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| Elliott Butler-Evans is a Research Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987, and his central interests include: Modern American fiction, including African-American and other ethnic literatures; Marxist cultural theory; narrative theory and semiotics; and genders and sexualities. He is the author of Race, Gender and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (1989), articles on semiotic production and black aesthetic discourse, Afro-American cultural theory, the civil rights movement, Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, and Shakespeare's Othello. Professor Butler-Evans is currently at work on The Narrative Semiotics of African American Culture, as well as co-editing volumes on modernism in African American and black South African literature, and cultural semiotics and ethnicity. |
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Areas of Interest |
- Modern American Fiction
- African American and other ethnic literatures
- Marxist cultural theory
- Narrative theory and social semiotics
- Gender and Sexuality
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade
Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker (Temple University Press, 1989)
- "'Haply, For I Am Black': Othello and the Semiotics of Race and Otherness," in Othello: New Essays by Black Writers (Howard University Press, 1997)
- "The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Dialogic Criticism and African American Literature," in The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions (U of Minnesota P, 1995)
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Current Projects |
- Narrative Semiotics of African-American Culture: Readings in Literature, Art, and Film
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Recent Course Offerings |
- Black South African Literature
- Toni Morrison
- Postmodern Narrative Strategies in African-American Cultural Texts
- African-American Women's Narratives
- Self-Fashioning in "Ethnic" Gay & Lesbian Narratives
- The Harlem Renaissance
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Courses
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Course |
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| Summer (A) 2008 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: SIGNS, SYMBOLS, TEXTS: Ideological Encodings and Decodings of [Post] Modern |
| Summer (A) 2007 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Signs, Symbols, Texts: Ideological Encodings and Decodings of [Post] Modern “Ethnic” Narratives |
| Summer (A) 2006 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar |
| Summer (B) 2004 |
ENGL 134NR |
Studies in the Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States |
| Spring 2004 |
COMPLIT 33 |
Major Works of African Literature |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 121 |
The Art of Narrative |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Narrating Race and Ethnicity |
| Fall 2003 |
ENGL 191 |
Afro-American Fiction and Criticism, 1920s to Present |
| Fall 2003 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Harlem Renaissance |
| Summer (A) 2003 |
ENGL 132TM |
Studies in American Writers
: Toni Morrison |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 10 |
Introduction to Literary Study |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 132TM |
Studies in American Writers
: Toni Morrison |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 121 |
The Art of Narrative |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Reading lbo Culture: The Fiction of Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta |
| Summer (A) 2002 |
ENGL 132TM |
Studies in American Writers
: Toni Morrison |
| Spring 2002 |
COMPLIT 33 |
Major Works of African Literature |
| Spring 2002 |
ENGL 121 |
The Art of Narrative |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Ethnicity and Narration |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Critical Interpretive Strategies for Ethnic Literature |
| Summer (A) 2001 |
ENGL 114ME |
Women and Literature
: Toni Morrison and Buchi Emechetta |
| Summer (A) 2001 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar |
| Spring 2001 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: The Harlem Renaissance |
| Fall 2000 |
COMPLIT 100 |
Introduction to Comparative Literature |
| Fall 2000 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Moral and Ethical Fiction- Doestoevsky to Morrison |
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