Rita Keresztesi

E-mail: ritak@ou.edu
Office: Gittinger Hall, Room 113
Phone:405/325-7938

Rita Keresztesi’s research and teaching focus primarily on 20th Century American literature and culture with an emphasis on issues of ethnicity, race, and class.  Her interests also include theory, cultural studies, contemporary North American culture (particularly visual culture and the politics of power), theories of modernity and postmodernity, and the politics and poetics of globalization and neocoloniality.  Her articles and publications include: the English translation of an early Hungarian-language essay of György Lukács, "Aesthetic Culture, " with an Introduction by Tyrus Miller, in Yale Journal of Criticism 11 (1998); “Writing Culture and Performing Race in Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, The Half-Blood (1927)” in Literature and Racial Ambiguity, edited by Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002); and “Romancing the Borderlands: Josephina Niggli’s Mexican Village ” in Doubled Plots: Romance and History, edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003).  Her book, Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars, was published by the University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2005.  She is also affiliated with the Film and Video Studies Program here at the University of Oklahoma.