Regular Faculty
Jorge Aladro Font
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-3832 (Office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 527
- Office Hours Monday and Wednesday 2 to 3:30
Dorian F Bell
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Jewish Studies
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Room 227
- Office Hours Fall 2024: Mon. 2-3:30pm and by appt
- Summary of Expertise
19th-21st century French culture and history; histories of empire, race, and antisemitism; critical race and whiteness studies; racial capitalism; postcolonial theory; spatial theory; Read more ...
Hunter Bivens
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-4037 (Office)
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 110
- Office Hours T/Th 2-3:00pm and by appointment
- Summary of Expertise
Twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, culture, and film; Marxism and critical theory; socialist realism and proletarian literature; modernism and left avant-gardes; novel Read more ...
Christopher S Chen
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2051
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 628
- Summary of Expertise
20th- and 21st-century African American literature; Asian American literature; Modern and Contemporary US Poetry and Poetics; Comparative Ethnic Literary Studies; Racial Capitalism and Read more ...
Hannah Cole
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone (831) 459-3452 (Office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Room 329
- Office Hours On leave fall 2024
- Summary of Expertise
Environmental humanities; plant studies; 20th-century Caribbean literature; the aftermaths of the plantation system; postcolonial theories and literatures; climate change
Christopher L Connery
- Title
- Professor, Literature
- Professor, History of Consciousness
- Department
- Literature Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 831-459-2761 (Office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 641
- Office Hours By appointment
Vilashini Cooppan
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-5632 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 633
- Office Hours Wednesday 4-5 (remote)
Martin J Devecka
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Classical Studies Director
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2381
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 226
- Office Hours WF, 12:30-2:30
- Summary of Expertise
Greek, Latin, Ancient Iranian Languages
Renee A Fox
- Title
- Associate Professor, Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Co-Director, The Dickens Project
- Co-Director, The Center for Monster Studies
- Department
- Literature Department
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, n/a
- Summary of Expertise
19th-century British literature and culture, Irish literature and culture (19th-century to the present), the gothic, monsters, popular culture, adaptations and adaptation theory, fantasy
Carla A Freccero
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 8314295364
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities I 637
- Office Hours By appointment;
- Summary of Expertise
Early Modern Cultural Studies
Literary and Cultural Theory
French
Queer Theory
Feminism
Popular Culture and Cultural Studies
Affect
Animal Studies
Filippo Gianferrari
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 8314592842
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 627
- Office Hours Monday and Wednesday 1:00-2:00 pm (or by appointment)
- Summary of Expertise
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, History, and Culture; History of Education (Middle Ages and Renaissance); Paleography and History of the Book.
Susan Gillman
- Title
- Distinguished Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-4199 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 640 Humanities 1
- Summary of Expertise
Race, Black Studies, transnational studies, multilingualism
Jody Greene
- Title
- Associate Campus Provost
- Professor of Literature
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone (831) 459-4230
- Website
- Office Location
- Kerr Hall, 281
- Office Hours by appointment
- Summary of Expertise
Research: Critical theory, especially poststructuralism; history of literature; history of authorship and publishing; history of the book; ethics; human rights; international law; intellectual Read more ...
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Oakes College
- Phone 831-459-2225
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 636
- Office Hours Spring 2024: in person Thursdays 11:30-1; remote by Zoom Mondays 11-12. Please email me for the Zoom link (current students may access through Canvas)
- Summary of Expertise
- Hemispheric studies of the Americas
- Contemporary Chicanx/Latinx cultural studies
- 16th-19th century American histories and literatures
- History of the book and print Read more ...
Camilo Gómez‑Rivas
- Title
- Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-5223
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Room 642
- Office Hours Fall 2023 Thursdays 1:15-2:15 pm or by appointment
- Summary of Expertise
Medieval Mediterranean; Spain and North Africa; Arabic Literature; Islamic Law and Society
Christine J Hong
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2920 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- ,
- Office Hours By Zoom appt.
- Summary of Expertise
Transnational Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; comparative ethnic studies; critical race theory; critical Korean Read more ...
Sean P Keilen
- Title
- Professor of Literature
- Associate Dean & Chair, Council of Provosts (from 2024)
- Department
- Literature Department
- Cowell College
- Porter College
- Phone 831-459-2322
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 629
- Office Hours By appointment. For Literature, contact me. For Council of Provosts, contact Carrie Malcom (cmalcom).
- Summary of Expertise
Shakespeare. Classics. History, theory, and practice of literary criticism. Liberal education (paideia, humanitas). Humanities in the public sphere. Analog humanities.
Sharon A Kinoshita
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of Literature
- Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
- Co-director, The Mediterranean Seminar
- Department
- Literature Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 632
- Office Hours Fall quarter by appointment (sakinosh@ucsc.edu)
- Summary of Expertise
Old French literature (12-13th century epic and romance), medieval Mediterranean Studies, medieval comparative literature; postcolonial theory. The Global Middle Ages, Marco Polo.
Kimberly J Lau
- Title
- Professor, Literature
- Provost, College Nine and John R. Lewis College
- Department
- Literature Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Social Sciences 1, 214
- Office Hours by appointment
Rodrigo Lazo
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Latin American & Latino Studies
- Phone (949) 468-8648
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 639
- Office Hours Tuesday 1-2, Thursday 5-6 and by Appointment
- Summary of Expertise
I am a scholar of American literature broadly conceived across the Americas, with specialties in the nineteenth century, print culture, and archival studies. Most of my rearch is on writers who Read more ...
Micah E Perks
- Title
- Professor
- Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Humanities
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-4586: no messages
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 233
- Office Hours Spring '24, W 230-430 on zoom or in person by appointment, email me for more info
- Summary of Expertise
Creative/Critical Writing; Reading and Writing U.S. fiction and creative non-fiction; U.S. gender, literature and culture; U.S. utopian communities.
Juan E Poblete
- Title
- Professor and Chair
- Department
- Literature Department
- Spanish Studies
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-5734 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities 1 530
- Office Hours Monday: 11:30-12:30 or Wednesday 2-3pm. All via zoom and by appointment only. Please email me.
- Summary of Expertise
Nineteenth century Latin America and contemporary Latino American (US-Latin America) culture. The first focuses on the study of literature as a disciplinary discourse for the formation of national Read more ...
G.S. Sahota
- Title
- Associate Professor, Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
- Department
- Literature Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- History Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Phone 831-459-2487 (office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 630
- Office Hours W 10am-noon, and by appointment
Amanda M Smith
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2704 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 333
- Office Hours Fall 2024: Mondays 2-4pm by appointment https://calendar.app.google/SCAYgS2nVauGDcBU9
- Summary of Expertise
20th- & 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures, Amazonia, Andes, Environmental Humanities, Liquid Humanities, Spatial Humanities, Sound Studies, Indigenous Studies, Archival Read more ...
Jennifer Tseng
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2030
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Hum I - rm 234
- Office Hours IRL Mondays 2:15-4:15pm Drop-in & by appt.
Robert J Wilson
- Title
- Distinguished Professor of Literature
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-2401 (Office), 831-535-2929
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities 631
- Office Hours Spring 2024: 2-4 PM on Thursdays, or by arrangment.
Ronaldo V Wilson
- Title
- Professor, Director Creative Writing Program
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-5247 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, HUM 1 238
- Office Hours Wednesdays 2-4 Zoom, By APPT.
- Summary of Expertise
Black Diasporic Poetics; 20th and 21st Century African American Poetry and Visual Culture; Contemporary US Experimental and Received Poetry and Poetics; Black Feminist Theories, Queer Read more ...
Zachary Allen Zimmer
- Title
- Associate Professor of Literature
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2701 (office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 528 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Spring 2024: Mondays 2-3pm; or by appointment (email to schedule).
- Summary of Expertise
Latin American literature and cultural studies; contemporary-colonial comparison; hemispheric studies; science fiction; science and technology in society; aesthetics and politics; digital Read more ...