Regular Faculty

• Professor

• Literature Department

• jaladro@ucsc.edu

• Humanities 1 527

• Associate Professor

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

• dbell1@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu homepage
• 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 ...

• 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

• Assistant Professor
• Co-Director, The Dickens Project

• Literature Department

• rafox@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, #638

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

• Chair, Literature Department
• Distinguished Professor, Literature & History of Consciousness

• Literature Department
• History of Consciousness Department

• freccero@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

• Humanities Building 1, Humanities I 328 (chair's office)

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 Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
• Founding Director, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
• Professor of Literature

• Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
• Literature Department

• jgreene@ucsc.edu
• citl@ucsc.edu
• avpaa@ucsc.edu

• Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
• Keep Teaching UCSC

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 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 ...

• 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

• Associate Professor

• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
• Literature Department

• cjhong@ucsc.edu

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

• Humanities Building 1, 634

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
• Chair, Council of Provosts (2022-24)
• Interim Provost, Porter College (2022-24)

• Literature Department
• Cowell College
• Porter College

• keilen@ucsc.edu

• Shakespeare Workshop

• Humanities Building 1, 629

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 ...

• Professor of Literature
• Co-director, UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies
• 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

• Literature Department

• lau@ucsc.edu

• Humanities Building 1, 239 Humanities 1

• Professor

• Literature Department

• hml@ucsc.edu

• Cowell 201

• Professor
• Director of Creative Writing
• 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

• 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

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

• G.S. Sahota Website

• Humanities Building 1, 630

• Associate Professor
• Faculty Director of Undergraduate Honors Programs

• Literature Department

• asmith25@ucsc.edu
• ams@ucsc.edu

• Twitter

• Humanities Building 1, 333

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

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• jetseng@ucsc.edu

• author website

• Humanities Building 1, Hum I - rm 234

• Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies

• 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

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program

• rvwilson@ucsc.edu

• Poetry Foundation - Harriet: The Blog
• Best American Poetry Interview
• Center for Art and Thought -

• Humanities Building 1, HUM 1 238

• 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 ...