Vincent Pecora
Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture, English
Department Chair, English
Program Director, British Studies Program
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3519 LNCO
Office Hours: Fall 2009: Wed, 10 am-12 noon; Thurs., 2-4 pm
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>> Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
1983 Ph.D. English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
1975 B.A. English and American Literature Brown University
Before coming to the University of Utah in 2005, Vincent Pecora taught for twenty years at UCLA. He works primarily in the areas of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, critical theory, and intellectual history, and most recently on the question of secularization in modernity. He is currently serving as department chair.
Selected Publications:
Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity
(Book), 2006
Nations and Identities: Classic Readings
(Book), 2001
Households of the Soul
(Book), 1997
Self and Form in Modern Narrative
(Book), 1989
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
19th-C. and 20th-C. Literature; Anthropology and Religion (2); Intellectual History (4); Secularization
Regions:
British Isles (15); Europe, Western (21)
Current Courses
ENGL 5950-1 Theories Of Culture
Courses I Teach
ENGL 5600 Honors Sem Brit Stds
ENGL 5630 Adv Seminar in British Studies
ENGL 5950 Theories Of Culture
ENGL 7080 Sem-Comp Lit Traditions
ENGL 7740 Sem-Literary Theory