Ben Xu  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Professor

Department:
English
   School of Liberal Arts

Office:
Dante Hall - 314

Contact:
Phone: 4274
Fax: 631-4471
Email: bxu@stmarys-ca.edu
Mail: P.O. Box 4730

Courses Recently Taught:

• 19th and 20th Century Literary Theory and Criticism
• College Writing I and II
• Ethnic Autobiographies
• Introduction to Literary Analysis
• Issues in Contemporary Literary Theories
• Literary Criticism (19th and 20th century criticism and aesthetics)
• Literary Movements (Existentialism; Modernism, etc.)
• Literature of Theme (Heroism in Minority Experience; Escape in Literature; Making Sense through Interpretation, Money and work, etc.)
• Major British Writers (from Romantic period to the age of Modernism)
• Men and Women in Literature
• Society and Literature
• The Downfall of the Last Certitude: Anti-Scientific Fiction
• The Future as Nightmare: Twentieth-Century Anti-Utopian Literature
• The Grotesque and the Comic: 20th Century Literature