Dr. 巴里Laga teaches Composition, Introduction to Film Studies, Literary Theory and a wide range of courses in American Literature and Cultural Studies.
Laga's courses focus on what Robert Scholes calls a "canon of methods." "I like the 'toolbox metaphor'," Laga said. "My students fill their intellectual toolbox with strategies that help them write, 解释, 创建, 和批判. I'm less interested in what my students 'know' than what they can 'do' with what I teach them. I like to think that my classes empower students in that my methods provide more ways to read and write."
While seemingly eclectic, Laga's scholarly interests take a cultural studies approach, and he has published essays and presented papers at conferences on a range of topics and texts, from Gerald Vizenor's "Heirs of Columbus", Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and the Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" to religious art, 大屠杀纪念碑, cosmopolitanism and experimental literature.
选定的出版物
Using Key Passages to Understand Theory, Literature, and Criticism. 劳特利奇,2018.
“Aestheticizing Loss: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes,” Modern Language Studies. (即将出版)
“In Lieu of History: Mormon Monuments and the Shaping of History.” 对话43.4 (2010): 131-153.
“Making the Absent Visible: The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Religious Art.” 对话40.2 (2007): 47-77.
“Maus, Holocaust, and History: Redrawing the Frame.” 亚利桑那季刊.1 (2001): 61-90.
“Decapitated Spectators: Posthistory, Barton Fink, and Cinematic Pleasure.” Postmodernism in the Cinema. Ed. 克里斯蒂娜Degli-Esposti. Providence: Berghahan Books. 1998. 181-201.
“A Postmodern Quest for More Discourse: Gerald Vizenor’s Heirs of Columbus.” American Indian Quarterly 18.1(1994年冬):71-86.
“Cultivating Identities: Reflections on Mormon Root Metaphors.” 日长石. 2004年3月/. 32-39.
“Weaving a Novel Nation: Metaphors of Belonging.”
富布赖特50岁. Ed. Rudiger Kunow. 波茨坦大学. 2002.
“Swapping Memories” (nonfiction narrative) Weber: The Contemporary West (Fall 2015) 32.2: 48-52.
Review of Deconstruction: An American Institution. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, (即将出版)
Review of The Jewish Graphic Novel. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 29.2 (2011): 169-71.
Review of Comics as Philosophy. MELUS 32.3 (2007): 308-309.
金伯利M. Blaeser’s Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. 中美民间传说. 25.1 (1997): 40-41.
Review of Gerald Vizenor’s Manifest Manners. American Indian Quarterly 20.1 (Winter 1996): 119-121.
Review of Gerald Vizenor’s Shadow Distance. American Indian Quarterly 20.1 (Winter 1996): 121-123.