Charlie Stephen
Academic PositionOther
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Harvard BA. Social Studies 1978
UC Berkeley MA. Sociology 1983
Publications on history of social theory, soc of culture, soc of literature
Wide-ranging interests in soc and polit theory, Marxism, phenomenology, modernism
Why You Joined the Lab:
I'm interested in sharing ideas with people whose work in the humanities is cross-disciplinary and broadly philosophical.
Matthew Mewhinney
Academic PositionGraduate Student
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Hi, I'm Matt Mewhinney. I am a native of San Francisco and I am in my first year of a PhD program in Japanese literature at UC Berkeley.
Why You Joined the Lab:
I would like to create a project on kanshi (classical Chinese verse in Japan) sometime during my five years here. I hope the lab will open more avenues of communication with people who can help me think creatively about the utility of classical language and poetics in the formations of nationhood and modernity. As a separate project, I am interested in digitizing all classical Chinese poetry and creating a database for specialists and non-specialists alike.
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Aristides Dimitriou
Academic PositionGraduate Student
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I am interested in twentieth-century American literature, transnationalism, hemispheric American studies, and critical theory. For my dissertation, I intend to investigate the tension between decolonial aesthetics and geopolitics throughout various modernist, postwar, and contemporary U.S., Caribbean, and Latin American literatures. My research will focus on issues of globalization, material culture, hybridity, memory, and sociopolitical reconfiguration across literary genres and artistic mediums.
Jonathan Reeve
Academic PositionFaculty
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Academic PositionOther
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Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1975, Professor, English Dept., SUNY-Buffalo, 1974-2000, Candidate, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, 2001-2006, Visiting Professor, English, UC Berkeley, 2000, 2002, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, 2003-. Organized a San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis monthly Seminar at UC Berkeley "Seminars for Scholars" (2007-2008) on the general topic of Psychoanalysis and War and featuring prominent Bay Area analysts that was co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Now working on a monograph on Ian McEwan's fiction.
Why You Joined the Lab:
Interest in its projects, especially Psychoanalysis working group, and this year, the "critical theory and why war" project. Also in literary projects on Anglophone fiction, novel, memoir, perversion and narrative.
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