Joshua Gang

Associate Professor
Zoom OH for 2021-22
SPR22 W 345-530
jsgang [at] berkeley.edu

Specialties

?Irish
Critical Theory
20th- and 21st-Century British
Drama
Narrative & the Novel
Linguistics

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Professional Statement

I joined UC Berkeley's English department in 2015.?My research interests include: 20th- and 21st-century British literature; literature and philosophy--especially?philosophy of mind and moral philosophy; the history of the novel;?literary history; and the history of criticism and reading practice.?
My book?Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind?was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2021?(series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism). My essay "Derek Jarman and Everything That Is the Case," which brings Jarman and Wittgenstein's?Tractatus?to bear on queer theory, appears?in the Summer 2022 issue of?Critical Inquiry. I've also published my work in journals such as?ELH, Novel: A Forum on Fiction,?and?PMLA.?
I am beginning a new project on moral philosophy, aesthetic value, and modern British fiction and film.

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Books

Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind

What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature?If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds o....(read more)

FIELDS:

20th- and 21st-Century British
Critical Theory
Drama
Linguistics
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
Irish

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Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind. Johns Hopkins University Press, Nov. 2021 (series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism).?
"Derek Jarman and Everything That is the Case." Critical Inquiry?(Summer 2022 issue).
Review of?Modernism and Close Reading, ed. David James (Oxford UP, 2020). Review of English Studies 1-2?(Summer 2020).
"Consciousness in the Balance."?NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction?50.2 (Summer 2017).
“No Symbols Where None Intended.” PMLA 130.3 (Fall 2015). Contribution to "Theories and Methodologies: Learning to Read," edited by Deidre Lynch and Evelyne Ender.
“Mindless Modernism.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 46.1 (Summer 2013).
“Behaviorism and the Beginnings of Close Reading.” ELH 78.1 (Spring 2011).

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English Department Classes

fall, 2022

45C/1
Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century
Introductory Surveys

45C/101 -- discussion section
No instructor assigned yet.


200/1
Problems in the Study of Literature
Graduate Courses

spring, 2022

45C/1
Literature in English: MId-19th through the 20th Century
Introductory Surveys

45C/101 -- discussion section
Haas, Andrew J


45C/103 -- discussion section
Davidson, William


45C/105 -- discussion section
Davidson, William


45C/106 -- discussion section
Haas, Andrew J

fall, 2021

100/1
The Seminar on Criticism: Close Reading
Literary Theory

177/1
Literature and Philosophy: "Minds, Morals, and the Novel"
Novel

spring, 2021

126/1
British Literature, 1900-1945
British 20th- and 21st-Century

134/1
Contemporary Literature: Contemporary British Fiction (and a few films)
British 20th- and 21st-Century
Novel
Film

134/101 -- discussion section
Gamedze, Londiwe


134/102 -- discussion section
Gamedze, Londiwe

fall, 2020

45C/1
Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century
Introductory Surveys

45C/101 -- discussion section
Gamedze, Londiwe


45C/102 -- discussion section
Nieto, Rebecca Maria


45C/103 -- discussion section
Gamedze, Londiwe


45C/104 -- discussion section
Nieto, Rebecca Maria


45C/105 -- discussion section
Kao, Libby


45C/106 -- discussion section
Kao, Libby


203/1
Graduate Readings: Literature and Analytic Philosophy
Graduate Courses

spring, 2020

190/5
Research Seminar: British Fiction Since 1945
British 20th- and 21st-Century
Novel
Research Seminars

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