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Cynthia Dobbs is an Associate Dean and Professor at the University of the Pacific. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley (1998) and a BA in English from Pomona College (1987). Her roles include teaching and leading initiatives in interdisciplinary scholarship.
- PhD, English, University of California, Berkeley (1998)
- BA, English, Pomona College (1987)
Her teaching philosophy emphasizes student empowerment through conversational learning, including collaborative assignments and individual writing conferences. Courses she teaches span American literature, creative writing, gender studies, and interdisciplinary seminars.
Research focuses on the intersection of aesthetics and trauma in modern/contemporary American literature, with attention to racial and sexual trauma, affect theory, and cultural resistance. She has analyzed works by Faulkner, Ellison, Morrison, and Claudia Rankine’s exploration of race, gender, and diagnosis narratives.
Her methodological approach integrates American cultural studies, modernist studies, critical race theory, and gender theory to examine how literature engages with trauma, migration, and identity.
She contributes to academic discourse through narrative nonfiction and lyric essays on illness, language, and identity.
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