 Associate Professor of English
Office: Cottage 205 Telephone: 303-492-8851 E-mail: Karen.Jacobs@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Twentieth-century American literature; modernism and postmodernism; the experimental novel; visual culture; literary theory; feminist theory; gender and sexuality theory
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
B.A., Washington University, 1982
Publications
Book
The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture. Cornell Univ. Press, 2000
Essays
“Introduction: Visual Developments and Narrative Exposures”; “Introduction: Photography Narrating Trauma.” English Language Notes, special Issue on “Photography and Literature” edited by Karen S. Jacobs, Fall/Winter 2006
“Optical Miniatures in Text and Image: Detail and Totality in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Sebald’s The Emigrants.” Etudes britanniques contemporaines 31 (November 2006): 105-116
“Optic/Haptic/Abject: Revisioning Indigenous Media in Masyesva's Imagining Indians and Silko's Almanac of the Dead.” Journal of Visual Culture 3 (2004): 291-316
"Speaking 'Chrissandra': Christa Wolf, Bakhtin, and the Politics of the Polyvocal Text." Narrative, 9:3 (October 2001)
"From 'Spy-glass' to 'Horizon': Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora Neale Hurston," Novel (Spring 1997): 329-60. Rpt. forthcoming in Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa. Ed. Martin Japtok
"The Eye's Mind: Henry James' The Sacred Fount and Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye." Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature. Ed. Beate Allert. Wayne State Univ. Press, 1996, 187-214
"Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot and the Logic of Invisibility." Qui Parle 4:1 (Fall 1990): 21-46
Selected honors and awards
Phoenix Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 2008
Provost's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work, CU Boulder, 2007
Center for Humanities and the Arts Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder, 2004-2005
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
Editorial positions
Managing editor, English Language NotesCurrent projects
Trace Atlas: A Poetics of Postmodern Literary Space (book)
With Liliane Louvel and Laurence Petit, The Poetics of the Iconotext, translation of Liliane Louvel’s L’Oeil du texte and Texte/Images: images à lire, textes à voir (book)
“Sontag, Leibovitz, and the Ends of the Photographic Lens” (article)
“Archeology of the Image: Tracing the Postmodern Archival Text” (article)
“Reading the Abu Ghraib Photographs: A Meditation” (article)