research overview
- Dr. Jacobs specializes in 20th- to 21st-century American literature, visual culture, and critical and environmental theory.
- Contact Info
Jacobs, Karen
Positions
- Associate Professor, English
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, modernism and postmodernism, visual culture and text-image studies, postmodern space, postmodern body, contemporary ecofictions, posthumanist theory, the experimental novel, women writers, critical theory, literary and narrative theory, environmental and ecological theory, feminist, gender and sexuality theory, literature and representations of the Holocaust
Publications
selected publications
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book
- Poetics of the Iconotext. Ed. Jacobs, Karen. 2013
- Infinite Dialogues Introduction 2011
- The Eye's Mind 2001
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chapter
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journal article
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RETOUCHING QUEER KINSHIIP Sontag, Leibovitz, and the Ends of the Photographic Lens.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
1-29.
2017
- The New Geomancy 2017
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Theorising the new geomancy: the case of HAARP.
Culture, Theory and Critique.
330-356.
2017
- “Morton Feldtfos Thomsen, Scenes of Writing, Scenes of Looking: Don DeLillo, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and the Politics of the Novel” 2017
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Sebald's Apparitional Nabokov.
Twentieth Century Literature.
137-168.
2014
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Introduction: (Dis)Orientations.
English Language Notes.
1-15.
2014
- “Cole’s Photographic Afterimages”. Image & Narrative. 87-105. 2014
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RESPONSES TO ERINA DUGANNE, "FAMILY FOLKTALES: CARRIE MAE WEEMS, ALLAN SEKULA, AND THE CRITIQUE OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY.
English Language Notes.
55-66.
2012
- Flies in Amber: Documentary Objects as Subjects in Carrie Mae Weems. English Language Notes. 55. 2012
- Flies in Amber: Documentary Objects as Subjects in Carrie Mae Weems.. English Language Notes. 55-66. 2012
- Optical Miniatures in Text and Image: Detail and Totality in Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Sebald's The Emigrants. Études Britanniques Contemporaines. 105-115. 2006
- A conversation with Mark Amerika. English Language Notes. 145-155. 2006
- Cluster 2: Photography narrating trauma - Introduction. English Language Notes. 229-230. 2006
- Visual developments and narrative exposures. English Language Notes. 1-5. 2006
- Photography and Literature. English Language Notes. 1-330. 2006
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Optic/haptic/abject: Revisioning indigenous media in Victor!Masayesva, Jr and Leslie Marmon!Silko.
Journal of Visual Culture.
291-316.
2004
- Speaking 'Chrissandra': Christa Wolf, Bakhtin, and the politics of the polyvocal text. Narrative. 283-304. 2001
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From "spy glass" to "horizon": Tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale!Hurston (African-American womens' literature).
Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
329-360.
1997
- Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisibility. Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences. 21-46. 1990
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RETOUCHING QUEER KINSHIIP Sontag, Leibovitz, and the Ends of the Photographic Lens.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
1-29.
2017
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 1993
- B.A., Washington University 1982
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Americas Transnational Region
- Estonia Country
- Netherlands Country
- Sweden Country
- northern Europe Transnational Region
- western Europe Transnational Region