Vincent P. PECORA
Professor
English
BIO
Vincent P. Pecora has taught at the University of Arkansas (1984-85), the University of California, Los Angeles (1985-2005), and has directed summer seminars for the School of Criticism and Theory (2002) and the Social Science Research Council (2010 and 2014). Since 2005, he has taught at the University of Utah. He is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), and Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the editor of Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), and a founding co-editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism; and he is the author of over 50 essays on modern literature and culture.
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- ProfessorEnglish1 Jul 2005 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ChairUniversity of Utah, Linguistics, Salt Lake City, United States1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2025
- ChairUniversity of Utah, English, USA1 Jan 2006 - 30 Jun 2012
- Assistant ProfessorUCLA, English, Los Angeles, USA1 Jul 1985 - 30 Jun 1990
- Associate ProfessorUCLA, English, Los Angeles, United States1 Jul 1990 - 30 Jun 1995
- Full ProfessorUCLA, English, Los Angeles, United States1 Jul 1995 - 30 Jun 2005
DEGREES
- BA, English and American LiteratureBrown University, English, Providence, RI, USA9 Sep 1971 - 1 Jun 1975
- PhD, English and Comparative LiteratureColumbia University, English, New York, NY, USA1 Jul 1978 - 30 Jun 1983
- MA, English and Comparative LiteratureColumbia University, New York, NY, USA1 Jul 1977 - 30 Jun 1978
LANGUAGES
- FrenchCan read, understand and peer review
- GermanCan read, understand and peer review
- LatinCan read, understand and peer review