Faculty

Janine Tobeck

Visiting Instructor

Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. Macalester College

Janine Tobeck is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has taught courses in British and American literature and composition. Her area of concentration is twentieth-century American literature, and she minored in theories of narrative (through the departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature). Her dissertation, "Altered States:  A Textual Ethics of the Inhuman," examines responses to a perceived crisis in humanism after World War II in texts by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson, William S. Burroughs, and Kathy Acker, drawing upon the late-Romantic work of Thomas De Quincey to address their uses of the altered state as both a literal and structural concept to disrupt traditional literary subjectivity and progressive narrative forms. 

Areas of Study

• American literature (esp. twentieth-century)
• Narrative theory
• Science in literature

Spring 2006 Courses

• The American Novel
• Short Story

Past Macalester Courses

• The Novel
• 20th Century British Literature

Awards/Honors

• Departmental fellowship to attend the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, 2003