KarenJacobs
- Associate Professor
Karen Jacobsreceived her BA from Washington University (1982) and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1993). Dr. Jacobs specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, visual culture studies, and critical theory. She is the new editor of the journalGenders Future Tense. She is the author ofThe Eye’s Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture(Cornell 2001); the editor of theEnglish Language Notesspecial issue,Photography and Literature(2006), andImaginary Cartographies(2014); and the editor of a translation of French critic Liliane Louvel’sPoetics of the Iconotext(Ashgate 2011). She has also written on queer theory, collective memory, and public art. She is currently completing two books:Afterimages: Nabokov • Sebald • Cole; andTrace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space, for which she recently won an NEH. In Summer 2014 she received the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her article “Sebald’s Apparitional Nabokov,” which appears in the journalTwentieth-Century Literature.
Areas of Specialty
- American Literature
- Environmental Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary Theory
- Modern and Contemporary Literature