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Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
4 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Jeffrey.Santa.Ana@Dartmouth.EDU
Interests
I am an Americanist who specializes in multi-ethnic fiction and film of the United States, especially Asian American and Pacific Islander literature. I also have research and teaching interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, and transnationalism and globalization. Currently I am writing a book entitled Feeling Multiracial: On the Cultural Politics of Emotions and Mixed Race in Global America. My manuscript examines the ways in which representations of mixed race people in consumer culture and in literature express anxieties about life in the United States under globalization. I am also working with Filipino studies scholars on a book that examines the formative roles of imperialism and colonialism in the Philippines and in the diaspora of Filipino people. The collection engages with theoretical debates in Asian, Asian American, postcolonial, and globalization studies.
Courses
English 67.4 A History of Asian America in Novels and Prose (Introduction to Asian American Literature) (05F)
In this course we will read a survey of literature by various Asian American writers (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian). We will examine and situate this literature within the social contexts of important moments in Asian American history. Requirements: oral presentations, midterm exam, and research paper. Texts include Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, John Okada's No-No Boy, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. Course Group III, CA tags Genre-narrative, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies.
English 72.5 Transnationalism in Asian American Literature and Cultural Criticism (06W)
Drawing on contemporary debates about transnationalism in Asian American cultural criticism, this course will examine narratives and films by Asian Americans that feature the experience of crossing national borders and living in global America. Requirements: oral presentations, analytical essay, and research paper. Texts include Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Andrew Pham's Catfish and Mandala, Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, David Mura’s Turning Japanese, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, and the films Fire and First Person Plural. Course Group III, CA tags Cultural Studies and Popular Culture, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies.
Selected Publications
“Shameful Hybridity: The Dialectic of Emotion and Filipino/Chicano Masculinities in Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son and Gil Cuadros’s City of God.” Serpentine Thoughts, Teoría Emplumada: Queer Chicano Writing, Politics, and Criticism. Ed. Michael Hames-García, Eric-Christopher García, and Ernesto J. Martínez. (Under review by New York University Press.)
“Elizabeth Bishop.” In the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Volume 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. 145-146
“Affect-Identity: The Emotions of Assimilation, Multiraciality, and Asian American Subjectivity.” Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen. Ed. Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 15-42.
Co-authored with Sau-ling C. Wong. “Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25.11 (Autumn 1999): 171-226.
“Cannibalism, Tattooing, and the Construction of White American Selfhood in Herman Melville’s Typee.” Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory 6.1 (Spring 1998): 80- 124.
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