English Department Faculty

Jeffrey Santa Ana

Assistant Professor. PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2003. American literature and culture; Asian American literature and film; Filipino diaspora; global migration and transnationalism; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnicity; emotion studies.

2096 Humanities; M 10:30-12:00 / 12:30-2:00, and by appointment
jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu

Courses:

Fall 2009

Literary Analysis & Argumentation: Expression and the American Dream in Literature (EGL 204.03) MW 2:20AM - 3:40PM
Some (Post) Modernisms in Recent American Literature and Criticism (EGL 606) W 3:50 – 6:40PM

Selected Publications:

“Commodity Race and Emotion: The Racial Commercialization of Human Feeling in Corporate Consumerism.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 33. Ed. Norman K. Denzin. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009. 109-128.
“Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions.” positions: east asia cultures critique 16.2 (Autumn 2008): 457-483.
“Affect-Identity: The Emotions of Assimilation, Multiraciality, and Asian American Subjectivity.” Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen. Ed. Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 15-42.
Sau-ling C. Wong and Jeffrey J. Santa Ana. “Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature.” Review Essay. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 25.11 (Autumn 1999): 171-226.
“Cannibalism, Tattooing, and the Construction of White American Selfhood in Herman Melville’s Typee.” Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory 6.1 (Spring 1998): 80- 124.

Jeffrey Santa Ana received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to Stony Brook, he taught at Mount Holyoke College and Dartmouth College. Currently, he is completing a manuscript entitled Critical Feeling: Race, Consumer Capitalism, and the Politics of Emotion. His book examines how the emotions that are generated and used by global consumer capitalism affect racial representation and experience in American popular culture and literature. Critical Feeling analyzes, in particular, the cultural politics of the emotions in depictions of racialized black subjection and Asian American subjectivity by U.S. ethnic writers. Santa Ana is also at work on a second book project entitled Empire's American Sons: The Transnational Origins of Masculinity in Filipino America. The project examines Filipino American masculinity in literature, film, and culture as a postcolonial condition expressing hybrid origins in globalization, as well as in Spanish and U.S. imperialisms.