Ursula K. Heise, Professor Primary Office: 460-419 At Stanford Since: 2004 Email: uheise@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Concepts of Modernity II: The Study of Culture in the Age of Globalization Science Fiction: Techno Dreams and Nightmares Degrees: Ph.D. English, Stanford University, 1993 M.A., Romance Philology, University of Cologne/Germany, 1987 M.A., English, UC Santa Barbara, 1985 Titles: Director, Program in Modern Thought & Literature Professor of English |
Ursula Heise specializes in contemporary American and European literature and literary theory; her major fields of interest are theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization, ecology and ecocriticism, literature and science, narrative theory, science fiction, and media theory. Her publications include articles on contemporary authors from the US, Latin America and Western Europe. She is the author of a book on the postmodern novel, Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press,1997) and, more recently, a book on environmentalism, ecocriticism, and globalization, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is currently working on two book projects. Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur [After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture] is forthcoming from the German publisher Suhrkamp in Spring 2010. The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature, currently in progress, deals with the role of biological form in works of the European, Latin American and North American avantgardes of the twentieth century.
Ursula Heise is Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature, member of the Executive Committee of the Program in Science, Technology & Society, and Affiliated Faculty of the Woods Institute for the Environment. Links: |
