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Onita Vaz-Hooper

Associate Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D University of Southern California

Office: Chambers 3289 Ext: 2771
email: Onita Vaz-Hooper

Professor Vaz-Hooper specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth century British Literature, particularly Romanticism. Her teaching interests also include colonial/postcolonial literature, textual criticism, canon-formation, and literature and medicine.

Courses taught:

Writing Medicine (WRI 101)
Literary Analysis
British Literature since 1800
British Romanticism
Writing High and Low: Literary Taste and Mass Appeal (The Eighteenth Century)
Fictions of Empire
Seminar: “Multiple Personality (Dis)Order: Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues”
Seminar: "Firing the Romantic Canon"
Seminar: Romance and Realism: Negotiating Literary and Social Conventions (Studies in British Literature)
Literature and Medicine: Ways of Reading, Ways of Knowing

Courses for Fall 2011:
ENG 110, Literature and Medicine
ENG 262, Fictions of Empire
ENG 362, British Romanticism

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