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Shelley STREEBY - Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)

Primary Office: LIT 452
Primary Phone: (858) 534-3067
Email: sstreeby@ucsd.edu

Associate Professor of American Literature: U.S. Literature and Culture; Sensationalism and Sentimentalism; Popular and Mass Culture; Inter-American Studies; U.S. Imperialism; Science Fiction; Working-Class Cultures

Selected Publications:

"Memory Wars: Or, Empire, the Sequel.” In American Studies after US Exceptionalism, ed. Donald Pease. Duke U Press, forthcoming.

"Labor, Memory, and the Boundaries of Print Culture.” American Literary History, special issue on print culture, forthcoming spring 2007.

Co-edited with Professor Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico. Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology.  Under contract with Rutgers University Press; "Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas” series edited by Amritjit Singh, Carla Peterson, C. Lok Chua. Forthcoming 2007.

"Empire.” Key Words in American Studies. Ed. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, forthcoming 2007. 11 mss. pages.

"Remembering/Forgetting 1848,” American Studies and War Narratives, ed. Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. UC Santa Barbara: American Cultures and Global Contexts Center: 2005.

"Sensational Fiction.” A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865. Ed. Shirley Samuels. London: Blackwell, 2004. 179-190.

American Sensations: Class, Race, and Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

"American Sensations: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War.” American Literary History (Spring 2001).

"Introduction” [co-author]. Post-Nationalist American Studies.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

"Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848.” Post-Nationalist American Studies.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

"Opening Up the Story-paper: George Lippard and the Construction of Class.” boundary 2 (Spring 1997).

"Haunted Houses: George Lippard, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Middle-Class America.” Criticism (Summer 1996).