Professor of French
Specialization:
Eric Prieto is a professor of French, Francophone, and comparative literature. His areas of interest include music and literature, postcolonial studies, spatial studies, and urban literature.
Research:
He is currently preparing for publication a monograph titled Literature, Urban Informality, and the Postcolonial City.
Publications:
He is the author of:
- Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)
- Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative (Nebraska, 2003).
He edited a special issue of the journal Small Axe titled “Rethinking Césaire" (Nov. 2015) and is a series editor of the Literary Urban Studies list at Palgrave-Macmillan.
He is also co-editor of:
- Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance (Springer 2025), with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela.
Courses:
He teaches courses on a range of topics including postcolonial literature, French literature, world literature, and urban literature and is currently chairing the Comparative Literature Program at UCSB.