Project Team
From left to right: Carl, Ben, Katherine, Susan, and David
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Director
email: carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
Carl Gutierrez Jones is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1990. He pursued his undergraduate degree in English and American literature at Stanford University. He also attended Cornell University where he completed his Ph.D. His interests include American studies; Chicano studies; contemporary fiction; Pan-American studies; and critical race studies. He is the author of Critical Race Narratives: A Study of Race, Rhetoric, and Injury (2001), Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Narrative and Legal Discourse (1995), as well articles on contemporary literature, film, and cultural theory. Professor Gutierrez-Jones is currently at work on a book that will treat questions of cultural literacy and humor.
Susan Cook, Project Researcher
email: scook@umail.ucsb.edu
Susan Cook is a graduate student in the English Ph.D. program at UCSB, where she studies Victorian and Modernist fiction. Her research interests currently include theories of pain, pleasure, and sadomasochism; fictional representations of geography; and the literary uses of light and dark. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Boston College, and she enjoys hiking and playing the violin in her “free time.”
David Roh, Project Developer/Researcher
email: roh@umail.ucsb.edu
David Roh is a graduate student in the English MA/PhD program, exploring notions of ownership and authorship in new media. He is especially interested in subversive and democratizing literary technologies, as well as Asian American literature. After receiving his BA from UCLA, he lived two years in Japan and Boston, only to realize that there’s no place like California.
Benjamin Shockey, Project Researcher
email: bshockey@umail.ucsb.edu
Benjamin Shockey is a graduate student in the English Ph.D. program at UCSB. His areas of study include 20th century British, American, and Anglophone literatures, critical theory, and gender and sexuality. He is currently interested in modernist aesthetics and the fetish, the city, and how the production and representation of space (architecture, enclosure, design, etc.) constructs identity.
Katherine Voll, Project Researcher
email: katherinevoll@umail.ucsb.edu
Katherine Voll is an M.A./Ph.D. candidate in the UCSB English Department. Her focus is on modernism and postmodernism with a possible emphasis on the works of James Joyce. She is also interested in postcolonial theory and Latin American literature. She recieved her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2003. When she is not buried in the books, Katherine can be found biking, hiking or climbing in the hills around Santa Barbara.