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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Tyler, Carole-Anne

Associate Professor of English
Associate Director, Center for Ideas and Society

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

English


Biography

Carole-Anne Tyler (B.A. Williams; M.A., Creative Writing, Ph.D., English, Brown) has a book forthcoming from Routledge, Female Impersonation, for which she was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 1991. Recent essays include "Death Masks," in Rrose Is a Rrose Is a Rrose, the catalog for a Guggenheim Museum exhibition on gender performance in photography (1997), "Passing: Narcissism, Identity, and Difference," in differences 6:2-3 (1994), and "Boys Will Be Girls: The Politics of Gay Drag," in Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories Gay Theories, ed. Diana Fuss (1991). Her teaching and research interests include gender and sexuality, literary theory, cultural studies (particularly film and visual culture), and 20th-Century fiction. She is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside.

Degrees

Ph.D. English Literature 1989

Brown University

M.A. Creative Writing 1982

Brown University

B.A. English Literature 1978

Williams College

Awards

Associate Director, Center for Ideas and Society, 1999-Present
UC President's Research Fellowship, 1998-1999
Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, Spring 1998
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., academic year 1991-1992
Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, Winter 1992


Research Area

Gender and sexuality; film and visual Culture; literary and cultural theory; modern and contemporary fiction