Faculty at the EMC
William Beatty Warner
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1977)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: warner@english.ucsb.edu
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1977)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: warner@english.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest
- Eighteenth-century British and American literature and cultural studies
- History and theory of Media
- Digital Culture
| Books and Recent Articles |
- The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History,"
ELH, 59, 1992, 577-596.
- "Social Power and the Novel: Foucault and Transparent Literary
History," Eighteenth Century Fiction, 3:3, 1991, 185-203.
- "The Resistance to Popular Culture," American Literary
History, 2:4, 1990, 726-742.
- "Dior's Designs," Word & Image, 2:3, 1985, 351-379.
- "The Transport of the Novel," (Introduction with Diedre
Lynch), Cultural Institutions of the Novel, Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1996, 1-10.
- "Spectacular Action: Rambo, Reaganism, and the Cultural Articulations
of the Hero," Cultural Studies, ed. Nelson, Grossberg, and
Triechler, Routledge, 1992, 672-688.
- "Staging Readers Reading," ECF 2000:1.
- Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (Yale University
Press, New Haven, 1979)
- Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare's
Hamlet (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986)
- Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998)
Current Projects
- Media Determinism
- The Digital Cultures Project: Director of University of California
Multi-Campus Research Group
Recent Courses Taught
- History and Theory of Media Culture
- 18th Century Media Culture: from the Battles of the Ancients and Moderns to the Rise of the Novel
- Cyborg Genealogies: the Gothic
- Free Speech and censorship: Milton to Mapplethorpe
- 17th- and 18th-Century British Literature
