UC Berkeley Department of English

Professor
Wheeler Hall, room 336
Fall 2017: sabbatical in residence. Tuesday 3:30-5:00 & by appt.
gastarr@berkeley.edu

Specialties

	Title	Fields
	Christianity Not as Old as the Creation: the Last of Defoe's Performances, ed. G. A. Starr ....	18th-Century British

Biblical and other features of 17th- and 18th-century prose style.

Prudential calculation and risk-taking (e.g. in investing, insuring, gambling, &c.), as applied by Defoe and others to questions of religious belief

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
84/2	Sophomore Seminar: Modern Utopian and (mostly) Dystopian Movies	Sophomore Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
190/13	Research Seminar: California Literature & Film Since WWI	American Literature Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
190/11	Research Seminar: Modern California Literature and Film	Novel Film Research Seminars
190/12	Research Seminar: Modern Utopian and Dystopian Literature and Film	Novel Film Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
165/7	Special Topics: Later 17th-Century Nonfictional Prose	Pre-1800 Requirement Renaissance and Early Modern Special Topics
190/12	Research Seminar: Daniel Defoe and the Rise of the 18th-Century Novel	Pre-1800 Requirement British 18th-Century Novel Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
165/7	Special Topics: Modern California Books and Movies	American Literature Novel Film Poetry Special Topics
190/14	Research Seminar: Modern Utopian and Dystopian Books and Movies	Novel Film Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
125A/2	The English Novel (Defoe through Scott)	Pre-1800 Requirement British 18th-Century Novel
190/10	Research Seminar: Utopian and Dystopian Literature and Film	Novel Research Seminars

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University of California, Berkeley
English Department
322 Wheeler Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1030
general phone: 510-642-3467