Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Literature Department
- Affiliations History of Art/Visual Culture, History of Consciousness Department
- Phone
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 110
- Office Hours T/Th 2-3:00pm and by appointment
- Mail Stop Cowell Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise German Studies, Literature, Marxism, Critical Theory
Summary of Expertise
Twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, culture, and film; Marxism and critical theory; socialist realism and proletarian literature; modernism and left avant-gardes; novel theory
Research Interests
Anna Seghers; Bertolt Brecht; GDR literature and film; work and culture
Biography, Education and Training
BA Bard College; PhD University of Chicago
Selected Publications
The East German Construction Novel of the 1950s: Work, Affect, and Obstinacy (forthcoming from Camden House)
Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front (Northwestern UP 2015)
"Obstinacy and Allegory in Eduard Claudius's East German Construction Novel Menschen an unsrer Seite." German Studies Review. 44.3 (2021), 545-564
"Brecht and German Studies" in Brecht in Context, ed. Stephen Brockmann (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021), 242-248
"Revisiting German Proletarian-Revolutionary Literature," in Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. Volume 2, ed. John Lennon and Magnus Nilsson (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 83–113
"Notes on Seghers and Adorno: Marxism, Post-Fascism, and the Question of Culture" in Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History (German Monitor v. 80), ed. Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero, and Amy Kepple Strawser (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 243-260
"Brecht’s Cruel Optimism or, What are Socialist Affects? / Der unbarmherzige Optimismus Bertolt Brechts oder, Was ist ein sozialistischer Affekt?" The Brecht Yearbook 43 (2018), 118-136
"Affective Labors of Socialist Construction in Early East German Literature." Marc Silberman, ed. Back to the Future: Tradition and Innovation in German Studies (New York: Peter Lang 2018), 147-172
"Aufbauzeit oder flaue Zeit?: Anna Seghers's GDR Novels." Kristey boney and Jennifer William, ed. Dimensions in Storytelling: A Festschrift for Helen Fehervary (Suffolk: Camden House, 2018), 70-81
"Socialist Cinema and Modernity." Marc Silberman and Henning Wrage, ed. at the Crossroads of East German and International Film Culture: A Companion (Berlin: De Gruyter 2014) pp. 24-44
"Neustadt: Architecture and Affect in Brigitte Reimann's East German Novel Franziska Linkerhand," The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 83:2, 139-166
"Anna Seghers' 'The Man and His Name': Heimat and the Labor of Interpellation in Postwar East Germany," German Studies Review 30.2, 311-330
Teaching Interests
nineteenth to twenty-first century German literature and culture; Marxism and critical theory; film; Bertolt Brecht; Franz Kafka; cultures of socialism; represntations of work
