UC Berkeley Department of English

Professor
Wheeler Hall, room 336
Tues./Thurs. 3:30-5:00
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
165/8	Special Topics: American Humor	Special Topics
190/5	Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I	American Literature Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
165/7	Special Topics: Utopian and (mostly) Dystopian Movies	Film Special Topics
190/12	Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I	Research Seminars

Course & Section	Course Name	Course Areas
190/12	Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I	American Literature Film Research Seminars

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

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