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Eric Prieto is a Professor of French, Francophone, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He currently serves as Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor in the Department of French and Italian and chairs the Comparative Literature Program. His research focuses on contemporary literature with an emphasis on music and literature, postcolonial studies, spatial studies, and urban literature. Key areas of expertise include Caribbean studies, geocriticism, the environmental humanities, and Beckett studies.
Dr. Prieto is the author of two monographs: Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative (2003) and Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2013). He has also edited a special issue of Small Axe titled “Rethinking Césaire” (2015) and contributes to the Literary Urban Studies series at Palgrave-Macmillan. His current projects include Literature, Urban Informality, and the Postcolonial City and a co-edited volume on Cities Under Stress.
His scholarship bridges interdisciplinary approaches, particularly in analyzing how spatial, urban, and musical frameworks intersect with literary narratives. Recent work explores informality in global cities, the relationship between jazz and political identity, and postcolonial reimaginings of space and place. Courses taught span postcolonial literature, world literature, and urban studies.
Dr. Prieto’s writings frequently engage with critical theories such as geocriticism, ecocriticism, and poststructuralism. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, special issues, and edited collections, demonstrating a commitment to rethinking literary analysis through lenses of place, sound, and transnationalism.
