 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
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
Current projects
Photo/Fictions (book)
Co-translator 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)
Modernism and the Visual Field (book)
“Reading the Abu Graib Photographs: A Meditation" (article)
“The Flesh of Words: Dreams of an Indexical Language” (article)