Regular Faculty
Jorge Aladro Font
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-3832 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Humanities 1 527
- Office Hours Monday and Wednesday 2 to 3:30
Dorian Bell
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Jewish Studies
- Phone 215-840-7542
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities 1 227
- Office Hours Winter 2022: Mon. 10:45am-12:15pm by Zoom (email for link) and by appt
- Summary of Expertise
19th-21st century French culture and history; histories of empire, race, and antisemitism; racial capitalism; postcolonial theory; spatial theory; globalization and migration; digital culture; Read more ...
Hunter Bivens
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-4037 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 110
- Office Hours Tu/Th 1:00-2:00 pm 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)
- 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 ...
Christopher Connery
- Title
- Professor, Literature
- Chair and Professor, History of Consciousness
- Department
- Literature Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 831-459-2761 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- 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
- Assistant 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
- Assistant Professor
- Co-Director, The Dickens Project
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2609
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, #638
- Office Hours M 2-4 (please use https://calendly.com/rafox to sign up for a meeting time)
- 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 Freccero
- Title
- Chair, Literature Department
- Distinguished Professor, Literature & History of Consciousness
- Department
- Literature Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 831-459-4129 (message)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities I 328 (chair's office)
- 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 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), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 640 Humanities 1
- Summary of Expertise
Race, Black Studies, transnational studies, multilingualism
Jody Greene
- Title
- Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
- Founding Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
- Professor of Literature
- Department
- Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-1694 (CITL Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Website
- 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 Winter 2022: Tuesdays 12-1; email me for zoom link or request appt via G-Cal
- Summary of Expertise
Hemispheric and comparative studies of the Americas, colonial period to present. Chicano/Latino(a/x) literary cultures. 19th-century US literature. History of the book and print culture. 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 Winter 2022 Wednesdays 2-3 pm or by appointment
- Summary of Expertise
Medieval Mediterranean; Spain and North Africa; Arabic Literature; Islamic Law and Society
Christine Hong
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-2920 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 634
- 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 Keilen
- Title
- Professor of Literature
- Founding Director, Shakespeare Workshop
- Founding Co-Director, The Deep Read
- Department
- Literature Department
- Porter College
- Cowell College
- Phone 831-459-2322
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 629
- Office Hours Spring 2022: T, 10:00-11:00 (Hum 1, 629 or Zoom)
- Summary of Expertise
Shakespeare, British Literature, Greek and Roman classics, history and theory of criticism, humanities in the public sphere, analog humanities, canonical authors, great books, the Western Read more ...
Sharon Kinoshita
- Title
- Professor of Literature
- Co-director, UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies
- Co-director, The Mediterranean Seminar
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2395 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 632
- Office Hours M 2-3:30 and by appointment via Zoom ( https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95269658732?pwd=dmFKejZWcXF6Sml0Q3dZL01wMFVMdz09)
- 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
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-5145
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 239 Humanities 1
- Office Hours by appointment
H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2146 (Office), 831-459-2609 (Message)
- Office Location
- Cowell 201
Micah Perks
- Title
- Professor
- Director of Creative Writing
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-4586: no messages
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 233
- Office Hours Winter '22 M drop in 2-3; W by appt 1-2 all on zoom, email me for link
- 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 Poblete
- Title
- Professor
- 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
- Phone 831-459-2487 (office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 630
- Office Hours W 10am-noon, and by appointment
Amanda M. Smith
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2704 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 333
- Office Hours Spring 2022: Tuesday 10-11:20am at Stevenson Café by Google appointment slot
- Summary of Expertise
20th- & 21st-century Latin American and Latinx literatures and cultures, Indigenous studies, Amazonia, the environmental humanities, the spatial humanities, sound studies.
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Jennifer Tseng
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2030
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Hum I - rm 234
- Office Hours Tuesdays 1-3 IRL or Zoom. Email for appointment.
Rob Sean Wilson
- Title
- Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-2401 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message), 831-535-2929
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Humanities 631
- Office Hours Via Zoom in relation to class sessions for 2021-2022: meetings to be arranged via email or online.
Ronaldo V. Wilson
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Creative Writing Program
- Phone 831-459-5247 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, HUM 1 238
- Office Hours On Leave until Winter Quarter, 2021
Zac Zimmer
- Title
- Assistant Professor of Literature
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2701 (office)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 528 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Spring 2022: Tuesdays 10:00-11:00am or email for Zoom appointment.
- 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 ...