English Department

Geoffrey Baker
Literature
Phone: 898-5455
Office: Siskiyou 133
gabaker@csuchico.edu

Prior to joining the English Department at Chico, Geoff Baker studied at Brigham Young University, the Freie Universität in Berlin, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2006. His scholarly and teaching interests include the novel, literary realism, theories of imperialism, and the relationship between politics and literature. While Geoff’s dissertation and recently completed book manuscript investigate the challenge posed to realist narrative by the early effects of globalization in the nineteenth century, his current project traces the history of twentieth-century debates about political art, beginning with the tension between Nietzsche and the Naturalists in the 1870s. He teaches comparative courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and world literature, and courses on later British literature.

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