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

• Eighteenth-century British and American literature and cultural studies
• History and theory of Media
• Digital Culture

• 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