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Neil Larsen
Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Email: nalarsen@ucdavis.edu
Office: 906 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Introduction
Neil Larsen works and writes extensively in the areas of Latin
American literature, postcolonial studies, and general literary and
critical theory. He is the author of Modernism and Hegemony (1990),
Reading North by South (1995), and Determinations: Essays on Theory,
Narrative and Nation in the Americas (2001).
His current projects include a book of essays on changes in the written
form of dialectical thought in Hegel, Marx, Lukács and Adorno.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Critical Theory and its philosophical sources
- Marxism
- Comparative literature
- Post-colonial and Latin-American literary studies (including Brazil)
Education:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
- B.A., Philosophy, Reed College
Selected Publications
- Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative and Nation in the Americas (London, NY: Verso Press, 2001)
- Reading North by South: On Latin American Literature, Culture and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
- Modernism and Hegemony: a Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990) Theory and History of Literature Series, vol. 71
- "Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America, in Light of Arno Mayer's The Furies", in A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War, Greg Grandin and Gilbert Joseph eds, (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming)
- "O 'Híbrido' como Fetiche: 'Raça', Ideologia e Narrativa em Casa-grande & senzala," Gilberto Freyre y los Estudios Latinoamericanos, Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee, eds. (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Latinoamericana, forthcoming)
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Neil LarsenProfessor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Email: nalarsen@ucdavis.edu |
Introduction
Neil Larsen works and writes extensively in the areas of Latin
American literature, postcolonial studies, and general literary and
critical theory. He is the author of Modernism and Hegemony (1990),
Reading North by South (1995), and Determinations: Essays on Theory,
Narrative and Nation in the Americas (2001).
His current projects include a book of essays on changes in the written
form of dialectical thought in Hegel, Marx, Lukács and Adorno.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Critical Theory and its philosophical sources
- Marxism
- Comparative literature
- Post-colonial and Latin-American literary studies (including Brazil)
Education:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
- M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
- B.A., Philosophy, Reed College
Selected Publications
- Determinations: Essays on Theory, Narrative and Nation in the Americas (London, NY: Verso Press, 2001)
- Reading North by South: On Latin American Literature, Culture and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
- Modernism and Hegemony: a Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990) Theory and History of Literature Series, vol. 71
- "Thoughts on Violence and Modernity in Latin America, in Light of Arno Mayer's The Furies", in A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War, Greg Grandin and Gilbert Joseph eds, (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming)
- "O 'Híbrido' como Fetiche: 'Raça', Ideologia e Narrativa em Casa-grande & senzala," Gilberto Freyre y los Estudios Latinoamericanos, Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee, eds. (Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Latinoamericana, forthcoming)