This site provides the current research and course materials of James Luberda, PhD candidate in English at the University of Connecticut.

My research interests currently center on:

Narratology
Cognitive science (general)
Pedagogy (comp/lit)
Metacognition (comp/lit)
Evolution (history of, narratives of, discourse of)
Genetics (narratives of, discourse of, role in determining behavior)
Victorian studies

The above "center" holds reasonably well, as multiple research and teaching threads connect the various subjects.

For the academic year 2006-2007, I was awarded a dissertation fellowship at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute to aid in the completion of my dissertation, "Social Statics and Evolutionary Discourse, 1844-1859."

I have also (long) been developing a composition textbook with a distinctly cognitive science bent. The preface and first two chapters are available for review and use here.

James Luberda (mail to firstname dot lastname @uconn.edu)

Click here for my current cv in html, here for a copy in Word format.

Various cheap books resources:

www.labyrinthbooks.com
Had an excellent remainders/closeouts sale annex with new titles frequently added--I say had because the prices of "remainders" seem to have, on average, significantly increased over the last few years. But still worth a look.

kaboombooks.com (an ever-changing inventory of heavily discounted academic books)
Kaboombooks has been down for a while now... I'm leaving the link on in hopes it will return.

bookpricer.com (a useful service that returns the price of any book at twenty or thirty on-line retailers)
Bookpricer quoted the parenthetical above (and this site) as a review. How very odd. For future use, let me offer this: bookpricer.com is a fantastically useful service that returns the price of any book... Update: This site too, has departed.

Last updated August 27, 2007.