Eva Cherniavsky

Professor
PDL A-411
543-2287 (voice mail)
Email: ec22@u.washington.edu

Degrees

A.B., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1982
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1990

Areas of Specialization

American studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, 18th, 19th, and 20th C. U.S.literatures; film and television

Activities and Interests

My current research centers on transformations in citizenship -- as a legal and juridical formation; as a normative category of political identity and a variegated field of cultural and political disidentification -- in the context of wider transformations, particularly the delinking of nation (as imagined community) from state (as administrative apparaturs), and the declining position of the bourgeoisie in the emergent class structures of transnational capital. Another (related) interest is in the proliferation (with substantial U.S. State Department funding) of American Studies programs in the academies of the former Soviet bloc, and in the modes of citizenship and sociality disseminated and engaged in these institutional contexts.

Selected Publications

"The Canny Subaltern." Theory After Theory. Eds. Jane Elliot and Derek Attridge. Routledge, Taylor, and Francis. (forthcoming 2011).
"Neocitizenship and Critique." Social Text 99 (Summer 2009): 1-23.
"Race." Blackwell Encylopedia of the Novel. Eds. Susan Hegeman and Peter Logan. (Basel Blackwell Publishers). 2010.
Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital. University of Minnesota Press. 2006.
That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in 19th C. America. Indiana University Press. 1995.
"The Romance of the Subaltern in the Twilight of Citizenship." Global South 1:1 (forthcoming autumn 2006).
"Visionary Politics: Feminist Interventions in the Culture of Images." (review essay) Feminist Studies 26:3 (Summer 2000).
"Real Again: Melodrama and the Subject of HIV/AIDS." GLQ 4:3 (Summer 1998).
"Subaltern Studies in a U.S. Frame." boundary 2 23:2 (Summer 1996).

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