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 Fall 2020: Wed. 2:30-4 Zoom only; email for link
- 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
- German Studies
- Phone 831-459-4037 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 110
- Office Hours Tu/Th 2:00-3:00 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
- Assistant 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
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2761 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 641
- Office Hours T Th 12:00-1:30
Vilashini Cooppan
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-5632 (Office)
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 633
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
- 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
- Associate Dean, Humanities Division
- 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
- 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 Thursday 1:30-3:00 pm (or by appointment)
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
- 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)
- Office Hours by appointment
- Summary of Expertise
Critical theory, especially poststructuralism; history of literature; history of authorship and publishing; history of the book; ethics; human rights; international law; intellectual property; Read more ...
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- Title
- Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Oakes College
- Phone 831-459-2225 (Office), 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 636
- Office Hours on sabbatical fall 2020
- 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 Spring 2020, 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 Fridays 10:30 a.m. to noon, and 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 (Humanity and Belles Lettres)
- Director, Shakespeare Workshop
- Department
- Literature Department
- Porter College
- Cowell College
- Phone 831-459-2322
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 629
- Office Hours On sabbatical, 2020-21
- 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, wisdom
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 TTh after class and by Zoom 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
- 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 Fall 20, W 2-4 PM email for appointment
- 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. No appointment needed
- 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 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 2021: Appointment slots Thursdays 11:30am-1pm: https://tinyurl.com/SmithOfficeHours2021spring
- Summary of Expertise
20th- & 21st-century Latin American literature and cultural studies, Amazonia, Indigeneity, ecocritical theory, sound studies, mapping and the spatial humanities.
Jennifer Tseng
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-2030
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 234
- Office Hours Tuesdays, 3-5pm & by appt. Email me to schedule a Zoom meeting.
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 Thursdays, 2:00-5:00PM or by appointment
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 Spring Quarter: Wednesdays 12:45-2:45 PM By Appointment
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 Winter 2020: Tuesdays 1-3pm, email for 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 ...