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Jorge Aladro-Font Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 527 Phone:  (831) 459-3832 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  jaladro@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: WF 12-1:30 Research Focus:  Spanish mysticism; theory and historical developments of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period; Renaissance and baroque Hispanic literature; Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance; Cervantes

Karen Bassi Title:  Professor, Department Chair Office:  Cowell 228 Phone:  (831) 459-2586 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  bassi@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Tu 1:30-3 & by appt Research Focus:  Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies

Murray Baumgarten Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 335 Phone:  (831) 459-2566 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  dickens@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: N/A Research Focus:  Dickens; Victorian literature and culture; the Bible; translation; modern Jewish writing; the Holocaust

A. Hunter Bivens Title:  Assistant Professor Office:  Cowell 110 Phone:  (831) 459-4037 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  abivens@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Tu Th 2-3 & by appt Research Focus:  Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel

Julianne Burton-Carvajal Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 227 Phone:  (831) 459-4560 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  julianne@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: N/A Research Focus:  Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; literature, arts, and social history of California

Louis Chude-Sokei Title:  Associate Professor Office:  Humanities 1 630 Phone:  (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  locsokei@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Modern and contemporary American literature; literatures of the African diaspora (Caribbean, African-American, and West African); Africana criticism and theory; media and popular culture; music and cultural politics

Christopher Connery Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 641 Phone:  (831) 459-2761 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  cconnery@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W 1:35-3:15 Research Focus:  World literature and cultural studies; globalism and geographical thought; the 1960s; Marxism; pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies; cultural revolution

Vilashini Cooppan Title:  Associate Professor Office:  Humanities 1 633 Phone:  (831) 459-5632 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  vcooppan@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 3:20-5 & by appt Research Focus:  Postcolonial studies; comparative and world literature; literatures of slavery and diaspora; globalization studies; cultural theory of race and ethnicity

Nathaniel Deutsch Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 331 Phone:  (831) 459-4146 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  ndeutsch@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W 12-2 Research Focus:  Hebrew Bible; rabbinic literature; Jewish mysticism; Hasidism; Eastern European Jewish life; ethnography

Dion Farquhar Title:  Lecturer Email:  dnfarquhar@sbcglobal.net Research Focus:  Experimental writing; contemporary fiction; contemporary poetry; plays; the prose poem; the short-short; classic literature

Maria Frangos Title:  Instructor Email:  mef@ucsc.edu

Carla Freccero Title:  Professor / Director, UCSC Center for Cultural Studies Office:  Humanities 1 637 Phone:  (831) 459-3342 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  freccero@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: N/A Research Focus:  Renaissance studies; French and Italian language and literature; early modern studies; postcolonial theories and literature; contemporary feminist theories and politics; queer theory; U.S. popular culture; posthumanism; animal studies

Pascale Gaitet Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 629 Phone:  (831) 459-2322 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  pascale@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature; sociolinguistics; political history; Celine; Genet

Mary-Kay Gamel Title:  Professor Office:  Cowell 226 Phone:  (831) 459-2381 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  mkgamel@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Tu 4-6 & by appt Research Focus:  Performance studies; ancient Mediterranean performance; Greek and Latin literatures; myth; reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts; film; feminist approaches to literature and performance

Susan Gillman Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 640 Phone:  (831) 459-4199 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  sgillman@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Nineteenth-century American literature and culture; theories of culture, race, and gender; world literature and cultural studies

Wlad Godzich Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 514 Phone:  (831) 459-1771 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  bogusz@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W 10-12 & by appt Research Focus:  Theory of literature; philosophy and literature; emergent literature; translation theory; globalization and culture; European integration; knowledge society; literatures of Africa, the Caribbean, Europe (Central, Eastern, and Western), Brazil, Canada; detective and crime fiction; science fiction; medicine and literature

Jody Greene Title:  Associate Professor Office:  Humanities 1 635 Phone:  (831) 459-5457 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  jgreene@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Seventeenth- and 18th-century British and French literature and culture; pre- and early modern studies; critical theory; gay and lesbian cultural studies; gender studies; history of authorship; history of the book; human property

Kirsten Silva Gruesz Title:  Professor, Personnel Director Office:  Humanities 1 636 Phone:  (831) 459-2225 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  ksgruesz@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W 1:30-3 & by appt Research Focus:  Transnational Americas studies; Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures; 19th-century U.S. and Latin American literature; poetry; history of the book; reading and literacy; bilingualism

Margo Hendricks Title:  Professor Office:  Cowell 229 Phone:  (831) 459-2258 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  margoh@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Early modern English literature and culture; theories and discourses of race, gender, drama, and theory; women playwrights; pre- and early modern studies

Christine Hong Title:  Assistant Professor Office:  Humanities 1 634 Phone:  (831) 459-2920 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  cjhong@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Th 4-6 & by appt Research Focus:  Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; Korean diasporic cultural production; Pacific Rim studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; human rights discourse; law and literature; narrative theory; film and visual studies

Theo Honnef Title:  Lecturer Office:  Stevenson 235 Phone:  (831) 459-2623 Office (831) 459-3408 Message Email:  thonnef@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: MW 12:15-1:15 & by appt

John O. Jordan Title:  Professor, Undergraduate Program Director Office:  Humanities 1 333 Phone:  (831) 459-2704 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  picasso@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: F 9-11 & by appt Research Focus:  Dickens; Victorian literature and culture; the English novel; literature of South Africa; narrative theory

Katalin Kallay Title:  Instructor Email:  katalin_g_kallay@yahoo.com

Sharon Kinoshita Title:  Professor, Graduate Program Director Office:  Humanities 1 632 Phone:  (831) 459-2395 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  sakinosh@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W Th 2-3 & by appt Research Focus:  Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature; Mediterranean studies; globalism; postcolonial theory; world literature and cultural studies

Norma Klahn Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 329 Phone:  (831) 459-3452 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  nklahn@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: W 1-3 & by appt Research Focus:  Latin American literary and cultural studies (specialization: Mexico); Chicano/Latino literature and culture from a cross-border perspective; modernity/postmodernity; poetics and politics; genre theory (novel, poetry, autobiography); contemporary critical theories (i.e., border, ethnic, feminist, transnational/global)

H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. Title:  Professor Office:  Cowell 201 Phone:  (831) 459-2146 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  hml@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Psychoanalysis; poststructuralism; gender theories; theory of cultural change; cultural studies and popular culture: opera, film, American country music

Nathaniel Mackey Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 628 Phone:  (831) 459-2051 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  mackey@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: N/A Research Focus:  Twentieth-century American literature, Afro-American literature, creative writing

Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal Title:  Associate Professor / Merrill College Provost Office:  Humanities 1 528 Phone:  (831) 459-2701 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  lourdes@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory

Tyrus Miller Title:  Professor of Comparative Literature / Cowell College Provost / Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Office:  Cowell 112 Phone:  (831) 459-5031 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  tyrus@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 1-5 by appt only at Cowell Research Focus:  Modernist, avant-garde, and postmodernist literature; the interrelations of the arts in the 20th century; aesthetics; cinema and film theory; the Frankfurt School; philosophy and social theory; contemporary poetry and language arts

William Nickell Title:  Lecturer Office:  Cowell 103 Phone:  (831) 459-4551 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  bnickell@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Leo Tolstoy; Russian cultural history; 1920's-30's Soviet Russia; Russian/Soviet Film; Russian language and pedagogy

Loisa Nygaard Title:  Associate Professor Office:  Humanities 1 627 Phone:  (831) 459-2842 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  nygaard@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 3-5 & by appt Research Focus:  Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; romanticism; aesthetics and politics of landscape; military theory

Micah Perks Title:  Associate Professor / Kresge College Provost Office:  Humanities 1 233 Phone:  (831) 459-4586 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  meperks@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Th 12-2 by appt only Research Focus:  Reading and writing contemporary fiction; memoir; historical fiction; gender, literature, and culture; alternative communities

Juan Poblete Title:  Associate Professor / Kresge College Provost Office:  Humanities 1 530 Phone:  (831) 459-5734 Message (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  jpoblete@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 9:30-10:30 @ HUM1 530, W 11-12 @ Kresge College--call 459-4792 for appt Research Focus:  Latin(o) American literatures; transnational/global cultures (literature, radio, film); Latin(o) American cultural studies; 19th-century studies; the history of reading practices

Melissa Sanders-Self Title:  Lecturer Office:  Humanities 1 238 Phone:  (831) 459-5247 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  Sanderself@gmail.com Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 7-9, W 4-5 & by appt Research Focus:  Contemporary fiction; modern American Southern literature; classic literature; screenplays

Daniel Selden Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 639 Phone:  (831) 459-2175 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  dselden@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Afroasiatic languages and literatures; Greek and Latin; Hellenistic culture; the classical tradition; history of criticism; literary theory

Deanna Shemek Title:  Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Graduate Placement Director / Cowell College Provost Office:  Cowell 111 Phone:  (831) 459-2716 Office (831) 459-2609 Message Email:  shemek@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 1-3 & by appt @ Cowell Provost Office Research Focus:  Renaissance studies (specialization: Italy); early modern feminism; humanism and gender production; Renaissance narrative genres and technologies; early modern popular culture; letter-writing and epistolary culture; early modern literacy and non-canonical producers of writing (women, children, marginalized communities); historical transmission of “ideas of the Renaissance”; Renaissance Italian drama and performance genres; the northern court circles

Richard Terdiman Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 642 Phone:  (831) 459-2030 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  dick@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: TBA Research Focus:  Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture; literary and cultural theory; contemporary critical theory; cultural globalization; digital humanities and digital publication

Georges Van Den Abbeele Title:  Professor / Dean of Humanities Office:  Humanities 1, Room 503D Phone:  (831) 459-2696 Office Email:  humdean@ucsc.edu Research Focus:  Early modern French philosophy, literature, and culture; Francophone literature; travel narrative and tourism studies; relations between philosophy and literature; poststructuralist and postmodernist critical theory; film and film theory; East-West literary relations; West Coast regional history and literature

Rob Wilson Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 631 Phone:  (831) 459-2401 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  rwilson@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Th 1-3:30 & by appt Research Focus:  Transnational and postcolonial literatures; especially as located in Asia/Pacific emergences as posited against American empire of globalization; cultural poetics of America; the sublime; Longinus to Hiroshima; mongrel poetics of experimental writing; especially poetry

Karen Tei Yamashita Title:  Professor Office:  Humanities 1 231 Phone:  (831) 459-2167 Office (831) 459-1924 Message Email:  ktyamash@ucsc.edu Office Hours:  FALL 2009: M 3-4:30, W 10:30-12 & by appt Research Focus:  History and anthropology of Japanese immigration to Brazil; Asian American literature; modern fiction; playwriting

Gary Young Title:  Lecturer Office:  Humanities 1 229 Phone:  (831) 459-5261 Office (831) 459-1924 Office Email:  GYoungGRP@aol.com Office Hours:  FALL 2009: Tu 10-2 & by appt Research Focus:  The prose poem; fine printing; print making; publishing and book design