Faculty

Born and raised in Kenya and educated in the United States (University of Hawaii, BA; Brandeis University, PhD), Abdul JanMohamed has taught in the English Department at UC Berkeley since 1983. His publications include Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa; The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (co-edited with David Lloyd); The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology Of Death; (ed.) Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste. He was the founding editor (along with Donna Przybylowicz...

Professor Jones serves as core faculty for the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and the Science, Technology and Society Center. She is on the Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major and is also affiliated with Gender and Women's Studies.

Robert Kaufman’s teaching and research emphasize several interrelated areas: 20th-21st-century American poetry and its dialogues with modern Latin American, German, French and British poetry; romantic and 19th-century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory and the history of criticism (esp. since Kant and Romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts (poetry and the other literary genres; music; cinema; painting, etc.).

Jake Kosek is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his doctorate in geography from UC Berkeley in 2002 and a master’s degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1995. After completing his PhD, he held the Lang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, where he also lectured in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. He subsequently received the Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellowship in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley before joining the University of New Mexico...