Shelley STREEBY
- Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Primary Office:
LIT 452
Primary Phone:
(858) 534-3067
Winter
2010 Office Hours :
M 11:55-12:55
, W 1-2
Winter
2010 Teaching Schedule:
Course: LTCS 50 Time: MWF 1100-1150 Location: WLH 2209
Course: LTTH 200B Time: M 1300-1550 Location: LIT 437
Email: sstreeby@ucsd.edu
Affiliated Faculty for Critical Gender Studies Program
Professor Streeby received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. in English from Harvard University. She is the author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (University of California Press, American Crossroads Series, 2002), which received the American Studies Association’s 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. Based on extensive archival research on the literatures and cultures of nineteenth-century expansionism, including dime novels, crime gazettes, story papers, and Spanish-language corridos, this book argues for the centrality of the US-Mexico War (1846-8) and mid-nineteenth-century empire-building in the Americas in the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formations. She is also co-editor (with Jesse Alemán) of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Rutgers University Press, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas Series, 2007).
Streeby works in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, with a specialization in U.S. historical and literary studies through the early 20th century. She offers courses in Literatures in English, Cultural Studies, Literature/Theory, Literatures of the Americas, and Literatures of the World. Her teaching and research interests include comparative studies of colonialism and empire; war, violence, memory, and visual culture; histories of popular and mass culture; transformations in literary production, print networks, and communities of readers; sentimental and sensational literature; political theory, social movements, and American Studies; the US West and the Western in transnational contexts; and science fiction. In 2006, she received the Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
She is currently working on a book on transnational movements in U.S. literature and visual culture from 1886, the year of the Haymarket riot in Chicago, through 1927, the year that Marcus Garvey was deported. She also serves on the managing editorial board of American Quarterly: The Journal of the American Studies Association.
Selected Publications
"Opening Up the Story Paper: George Lippard and the Construction of Class." boundary 2 24:1 (Spring 1997): 177-203.
"Haunted Houses: George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Middle-Class America." Criticism 38:3 (Summer 1996): 443-72.
"Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848." Post-Nationalist American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe. University of California Press, 2000: 166-197.
"Syllabus: The American 1848." Post-Nationalist American Studies: 197-199.
Co-author with Barbara Brinson Curiel, David Kazanjian, Katherine Kinney, Steven Mailloux, Jay Mechling, John Carlos Rowe, George Sánchez, and Henry Yu. "Introduction." Post-Nationalist American Studies: 1-21.
"American Sensations: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War." American Literary History 13:1 (Spring 2001): 1-40.
American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
"Sensational Fiction." A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels. London: Blackwell, 2004: 179-190.
"Remembering/Forgetting 1848." War Narratives and American Culture, ed. Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. UC Santa Barbara: American Cultures and Global Contexts Center: 2005.
"Empire." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, eds. New York: New York University, 2007.
"Labor, Memory, and the Boundaries of Print Culture: From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution." American Literary History, Volume 19, No. 2, Summer 2007: 406-433.
Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. Co-edited with Jesse Alemán. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
"Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons." Forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to American Literature and Culture. Paul Lauter, ed.
"Memory Wars: Or, Empire, the Sequel." Forthcoming in The State(s) of American Studies. Donald Pease, ed.
"June 1846: James Russell Lowell's Biglow Papers are cut from the newspaper and pasted onto workshop walls all over Boston." Forthcoming in A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press). Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus, eds.
"Dime Novels and the Rise of Mass Market Genres." Forthcoming in The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge University Press). Leonard Cassuto, ed.