k.arens@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: Germanic Studies

Additional department affiliations: Comparative Literature, Science, Technology, and Society


Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Research interests:Theories of literature, texts, and culture; European and Euro-American intellectual and cultural history (1740 - present); psychoanalytic theories (Freudianism, Lacanianism); (post)colonial theories and identity politics; science and culture

Courses taught:
WGS 390 Foundations I: Intro to Women's and Gender Studies

GER 382N
Intellectual History WGS Foundations II CL 382: Zizek, Kristeva, Lacan



Recent Publications:Arens, K and Janet Swaffar. Remapping the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Multi- Literacies Approach (October 2005)