Michael D. Rubenstein, Assistant Professor

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Office: 442 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-7519

Email: mdru@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

20th-Century British Literature. Postcolonial & World Literature. Narrative & the Novel. Cultural Studies. Irish Literature. James Joyce.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial.  Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Urban Planner: Joyce and Dublin’s Engineering Cultures,” in Valérie Bénéjam and John Bishop, eds., Making Space in the Works of James Joyce. London: Routledge, forthcoming. 

“Light Reading: Public Utility, Urban Fiction and Human Rights.” Social Text, Winter 2008.

“Revisiting the City, Revising Nationalism: Andrew Kincaid’s Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment.” The Field Day Review, vol. 3, 2007.  

"The Waters of Civic Finance: Moneyed States in Joyce's Ulysses." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 36 (3) Summer 2003.

Office Hours

T 5-6:30, Th 5-6