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; TU 10-11:30 & 2:30-4:00 & Appt
jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu

Courses:

Fall 2008

Mixed Race Experience in Asian American Literature and Culture (EGL 390)
Literatures of the Pacific and the Transatlantic (EGL 587)

Selected Publications:

“Feeling Ancestral: The Emotions of Mixed Race and Memory in Asian American Cultural Productions.” positions: east asia cultures critique 16.2 (Autumn 2008).
“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 Racial Feelings: Minority Subjectivity, Migration, and the Politics of Emotion. His book analyzes racial minority identification and the commercialization of human feeling in popular culture and in literature by and about Asian Americans and African Americans. Focusing on feelings of shame, anger, and trauma, Racial Feelings examines the anxiety and distress of racialized subjection and Asian migration within the cultures of U.S. capitalism. Santa Ana is also at work on a second book project provisionally 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.