Christopher Newfield

 

Christopher Newfield
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1988
English Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Tel: (805) 893-4474
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: cnewf@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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Office: SH 2517
Availability (2000-1): In Residence F, W, S
Office Hours (Fall 2000):

Areas of Interest

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature
Literary and social theory
Gender, sexuality, and race

Books and Recent Articles

Criticism, Inc.: The Humanities and Modern Management
(Duke University Press, Forthcoming Fall 2000)

"Whiteness and Meritocracy"
(Disclosure 1998)

"Recapturing Academic Business"
(Social Text 1997)

The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America
(University of Chicago Press 1995)

After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s
Co-editor with Ron Strickland (Westview, 1995)

Mapping Multiculturalism
Co-editor with Avery Gordon (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)

"Corporate Pleasures for a Corporate Planet."
( Social Text 1995)

"White Philosophy."
(Critical Inquiry 1994)

"The Politics of Male Suffering: Masochism and Hegemony in the American Renaissance."
(differences 1989)

Current Projects

Currently working on a book about corporate cultural studies entitled "The Empowerment Wars."

Recent Course Offerings

Global California
US Cultures of Peacetime
Contemporary Social Theory
Race and Ethnicity in Cultural Studies