Regular Faculty

• Professor

• Literature Department

• jaladro@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 527

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Jewish Studies
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• dbell1@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu page
• Curriculum vitae

• Humanities Building 1, Room 227

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 ...

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department

• abivens@ucsc.edu

• Cowell College Academic Building, 110

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 ...

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department

• cche75@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 628

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 ...

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• harcole@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, Room 329

Environmental humanities; plant studies; 20th-century Caribbean literature; the aftermaths of the plantation system; postcolonial theories and literatures; climate change

• Professor, Literature
• Professor, History of Consciousness

• Literature Department
• History of Consciousness Department

• cconnery@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 641

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• vcooppan@ucsc.edu

• UCSC Graduate Division Video Profile

• Humanities Building 1, 633

• Associate Professor
• Classical Studies Director

• Literature Department

• mdevecka@ucsc.edu

• Cowell College Academic Building, 226

Greek, Latin, Ancient Iranian Languages

• Associate Professor, Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies
• Co-Director, The Dickens Project
• Co-Director, The Center for Monster Studies

• Literature Department

• rafox@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, n/a

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

• Distinguished Professor

• Literature Department
• History of Consciousness Department

• freccero@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

• Humanities Building 1, Humanities I 637

Early Modern Cultural Studies
Literary and Cultural Theory
French
Queer Theory
Feminism
Popular Culture and Cultural Studies
Affect
Animal Studies

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• fgianfer@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 627

Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature, History, and Culture; History of Education (Middle Ages and Renaissance); Paleography and History of the Book.

• Distinguished Professor

• Literature Department

• sgillman@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 640 Humanities 1

Race, Black Studies, transnational studies, multilingualism

• Associate Campus Provost
• Professor of Literature

• Literature Department

• jgreene@ucsc.edu

• UCSC Academic Success
• Teaching and Learning Center

• Kerr Hall, 281

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 ...

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Oakes College

• ksgruesz@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 636

• 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 ...

• Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies

• Literature Department

• cgomezri@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, Room 642

Medieval Mediterranean; Spain and North Africa; Arabic Literature; Islamic Law and Society

• Professor

• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
• Literature Department

• cjhong@ucsc.edu

• Korea Policy Institute
• Legacies of the Korean War
• Critical Ethnic Studies Journal

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Transnational Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; comparative ethnic studies; critical race theory; critical Korean Read more ...

• Professor of Literature
• Associate Dean & Chair, Council of Provosts (2024-25)

• Literature Department
• Cowell College
• Porter College

• keilen@ucsc.edu

• Shakespeare Workshop

• Humanities Building 1, 629

Shakespeare. Classics. History, theory, and practice of literary criticism. Liberal education (paideia, humanitas). Humanities in the public sphere. Analog humanities.

• Distinguished Professor of Literature
• Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
• Co-director, The Mediterranean Seminar

• Literature Department

• sakinosh@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 632

Old French literature (12-13th century epic and romance), medieval Mediterranean Studies, medieval comparative literature; postcolonial theory. The Global Middle Ages, Marco Polo.

• Professor, Literature
• Provost, College Nine and John R. Lewis College

• Literature Department

• lau@ucsc.edu

• kimberlyjlau.com

• Social Sciences 1, 214

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Latin American & Latino Studies

• rolazo@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 639

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 ...

• Professor
• Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Humanities

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program

• meperks@ucsc.edu

• Author Site
• UCSC Creative Writing

• Humanities Building 1, 233

Creative/Critical Writing; Reading and Writing U.S. fiction and creative non-fiction; U.S. gender, literature and culture; U.S. utopian communities.

• Professor and Chair

• Literature Department
• Spanish Studies
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• jpoblete@ucsc.edu

• Juan Poblete's web page

• Humanities Building 1, Humanities 1 530

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 ...

• Associate Professor, Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies

• Literature Department
• History of Consciousness Department
• History Department
• History of Art/Visual Culture

• sahota@ucsc.edu
• gssahota@gmail.com

• G.S. Sahota Website

• Humanities Building 1, 630

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department

• asmith25@ucsc.edu
• ams@ucsc.edu

• Twitter

• Humanities Building 1, 333

20th- & 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures, Amazonia, Andes, Environmental Humanities, Liquid Humanities, Spatial Humanities, Sound Studies, Indigenous Studies, Archival Read more ...

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department

• jetseng@ucsc.edu

• author website

• Humanities Building 1, Hum I - rm 234

• Distinguished Professor of Literature

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program

• rwilson@ucsc.edu
• robseanwilson@gmail.com

• Academia.edu page for Rob Wilson
• Facebook, Rethinking World Literature group (admin with David Palumbo Liu, Wai-chee Dimock and Francois Lionnet)
• Facebook Group-- Beat Attitude: World Becoming
• https://twitter.com/poesispoesis/status/610444102698545152

• Humanities Building 1, Humanities 631

• Professor, Director Creative Writing Program

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program

• rvwilson@ucsc.edu

• Ronaldo V. Wilson

• Humanities Building 1, HUM 1 238

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 ...

• Associate Professor of Literature

• Literature Department

• zaazimme@ucsc.edu
• zaz@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 528 Humanities 1

Latin American literature and cultural studies; contemporary-colonial comparison; hemispheric studies; science fiction; science and technology in society; aesthetics and politics; digital Read more ...