Regular Faculty

• Professor

• Literature Department

• jaladro@ucsc.edu

• Professor

• Literature Department

• bassi@ucsc.edu

• Mortailty: Facing Death in Ancient Greece
• The History of Mortality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• T.B. L. Webster Fellowship 2016-17

Classics; Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies; death studies; tragedy. 

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Jewish Studies

• dbell1@ucsc.edu

• Curriculum vitae

19th-21st century French culture and history; histories of empire, race, and anti-Semitism; racial capitalism; postcolonial theory; spatial theory; globalization and migration; digital culture; Read more ...

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• German Studies

• abivens@ucsc.edu

• Hunter Bivens Personal Site

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 ...

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• cche75@ucsc.edu

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 Department

• cconnery@ucsc.edu

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• vcooppan@ucsc.edu

• UCSC Graduate Division Video Profile

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• mdevecka@ucsc.edu

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• rafox@ucsc.edu

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 and History of Consciousness
• Affiliated Faculty, Feminist Studies

• Literature Department
• History of Consciousness Department

• freccero@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

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

• Professor

• Literature Department

• sgillman@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

Race, Black Studies, transnational studies, multilingualism

• Distinguished Professor

• Literature Department

• bogusz@ucsc.edu

General and Comparative Literature; Philosophy and Literature; Theory of Literature and Culture; Medical Humaities; Philosophy of Technology. Cultural Studies: Politics of Culture and Literature; Read more ...

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

• Center for Teaching & Learning
• Literature Department

• jgreene@ucsc.edu
• citl@ucsc.edu

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 ...

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Oakes College

• ksgruesz@ucsc.edu

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 ...

• Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies

• Literature Department

• cgomezri@ucsc.edu

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

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• cjhong@ucsc.edu

• Korea Policy Institute
• Critical Ethnic Studies Association
• National Campaign to End the Korean War
• Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific
• Legacies of the Korean War

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
• Provost, Porter College
• Director, Shakespeare Workshop

• Literature Department

• keilen@ucsc.edu

• Shakespeare Workshop

Shakespeare, Ovid, British Literature to 1800, history and theory of criticism, literature and the fine arts, literature and philosophy, humanities in the public sphere, analog humanities, Read more ...

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

• Literature Department

• sakinosh@ucsc.edu

• Academia.edu

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

• Professor

• Literature Department

• hml@ucsc.edu

• Professor
• Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies

• Literature Department
• Graduate Studies Division
• Humanities Division

• tyrus@ucsc.edu

• UCSC Division of Graduate Studies

Modernism and avant-garde movements, in international, interdisciplinary, and intermedial contexts
Neo-avant-gardes and 1960s culture
Frankfurt School critical theory
Philosophical Read more ...

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program
• Kresge College

• meperks@ucsc.edu

• Author Site
• UCSC Creative Writing

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

• Professor

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

• jpoblete@ucsc.edu

• Juan Poblete's web page

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

• Literature Department

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

• G.S. Sahota Website

• Professor

• Literature Department

• dselden@ucsc.edu
• dlselden@sbcglobal.net

• Academia.edu

Classics
Egyptology
Hellenistic Literature
Mediterranean Studies
Poetics
Literary Theory
Philosophy
Opera
Film Studies
Reception Studies
Politics Read more ...

• Professor and Chair, Department of Literature
• Co-Director, IDEA: Isabella d'Este Archive

• Literature Department
• Cowell College

• shemek@ucsc.edu

• http://isabelladeste.web.unc.edu

 Renaissance studies (Italy); early modern feminism; humanism and gender culture; early modern narrative genres; early modern popular culture; letter-writing and epistolary culture; Read more ...

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• asmith25@ucsc.edu
• ams@ucsc.edu

• www.amandamignonnesmith.com

Latin American literatures and cultural studies, Amazonia, the Andes & Quechua studies, Indigenous studies, shamanism, plant studies, literature and extractivism, mapping & the spatial Read more ...

• 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

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program

• rvwilson@ucsc.edu

• Poetry Foundation - Harriet: The Blog
• Best American Poetry Interview
• Center for Art and Thought - "Grey" by Ronaldo Wilson

• Professor

• Literature Department
• Creative Writing Program
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• ktyamash@ucsc.edu

• Assistant Professor of Literature

• Literature Department

• zaazimme@ucsc.edu
• zaz@ucsc.edu

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