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.

1094 Humanities; W 11:00-12:00 & 1:00-3:00
jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu

Courses:

Spring 2011

EGL 587: Queer Transnationalisms: Gender and Sexuality in Migrant and Immigrant Literature and Culture

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 Feeling in Capitalism: Critical Theory of the Emotions in Race, Migration and Literature. His book examines how the emotions that are generated and used by consumer capitalism affect the representation and formation of racial and immigrant identities and subjectivities in American popular culture and literature. Feeling in Capitalism analyzes, in particular, the cultural politics of emotional commodification and commercialized human feeling in depictions of racialized black and Latino subjectivities, transnational migration, and Asian American identities 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.