Janet Sarbanes (Ph.D. English, UCLA) teaches fiction, special topics and narrative theory courses in the MFA Writing Program, and cultural studies in the BFA program of the School of Critical Studies. She is the author of the story collection Army of One,  (http://www.laweekly.com/2008-07-10/art-books/into-the-wild/), and is working on a book of critical essays concerning the role of aesthetic practice in utopian, sub-cultural and countercultural social formations,  two of which have recently appeared in Utopian Studies and Popular Music  and Society. She has also published in Black Clock, Afterall, Merge, Plum Ruby Review, Zyzzyva and the anthologies Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography and the nOulipan Analects. An excerpt from her novel in manuscript, Wendy’s America: The Adventures of the President’s Daughter, is forthcoming from the Chicago Review. She serves on the board of Les Figues Press. 

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