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Regular Faculty

Hannah Cole
  • Pronouns she/her/hers
  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Phone
    (831) 459-3452 (Office)
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, Room 329
  • Office Hours Tuesdays 2-4. Please schedule on my Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ3mJV7s4ZT8ifXnH6kEPL7QclBDJbLe2Vgi3fHppy6wap46lQsx0PrJRKaS-GXDx8J9fEDGP6Sh?gv=true
  • Mail Stop Literature Department

Summary of Expertise

Environmental humanities; plant studies; 20th-century Caribbean literature; the aftermaths of the plantation system; postcolonial theories and literatures; climate change

Biography, Education and Training

Hannah Rachel Cole holds a a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Before joining UCSC, she taught in Harvard University’s History & Literature program and served as Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and the Yale Environmental Humanities Program.