Regular Faculty

• Professor

• Literature Department

• jaladro@ucsc.edu

• Humanities 1 527

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• Jewish Studies

• dbell1@ucsc.edu

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• Curriculum vitae

• Humanities Building 1, Humanities 1 227

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 ...

• Associate Professor

• Literature Department
• German Studies

• 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
• Chair and Professor, Hisory 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

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• Humanities Building 1, 633

• Assistant 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

• 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

• Literature Department
• Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

• 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 (literae humaniores)
• Founding Director, Shakespeare Workshop
• Founding Co-Director, The Deep Read

• Literature Department
• Porter College
• Cowell 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, wisdom

• 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

• 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

• Assistant Professor

• 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, the environmental humanities, the spatial humanities, sound studies.

• Assistant Professor

• Literature Department

• jetseng@ucsc.edu

• author website

• Jack Baskin Engineering Building, Courtyard

• 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

• Assistant 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 ...