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Onita Vaz-Hooper

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

Office:  Chambers 3289  Ext:  2771
email: Onita Vaz-Hooper
(on sabbatical 2009-10)

Professor Vaz-Hooper specializes in the Long Eighteenth Century, particularly Romanticism, and the ways in which the practice of textual revision among the Romantics traces their pre-occupation with imagination. Her teaching interests also include Victorian literature, textual criticism, canon-formation, colonial/postcolonial studies, and literature and medicine.

Courses taught:

  • The Ethics and Technologies of Medicine (Eng 101W)
  • Literary Analysis
  • British Literature since 1800
  • British Romanticism
  • Writing High and Low: Literary Taste and Mass Appeal (The Eighteenth Century)
  • Colonial/Postcolonial Literature (Studies in Modern Literature)
  • 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)
  • Seminar for Fall 2008
    Firing the Romantic Canon