Writing Program
2011-12 General Catalog
166 Kresge College
(831) 459-2431
http://writing.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
James Wilson, Lecturer with Security of Employment, Chair
Modern European literary, artistic, intellectual, and political movements (especially of France, Italy, and Spain); poetry of Ezra Pound; Chinese poetry and philosophy; translation; argument in popular culture; the rhetoric of sports
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Elizabeth Abrams
Composition and rhetoric; writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum; 19th-century and 20th-century American history and literature, especially concerning the Civil War
Carol M. Freeman, Emerita
Donald L. Rothman, Emeritus
Roswell Spafford, Emerita
Lecturer
Sondra Archimedes
Victorian literature and culture; gender studies; cultural studies
Jeffrey M. Arnett
Creativity and well-being
Derede Arthur
Cultural studies, 18th20th-century British literature, theory of the novel, theories of education, cognitive ethology
Mark Baker
Media and democracy, postmodernism, 20th-century literature and culture of the Americas , community participation, writing and social responsibility
Farnaz Fatemi
Comics and graphic novels, poetry, Middle East issues and cross-cultural perspectives, writing pedagogy
BK Faunce
Late 18th-century and early 19th-century British literary culture, film, literary theory
Timothy Fitzmaurice, Emeritus
Susan Gorsky
Composition and rhetoric, writing pedagogy, 19th-century and 20th-century British and American literature, social justice and community
Roxanne Power Hamilton
Writing, poetry, magazine editing, inter-arts performance, gender and queer studies
Robin King
Visual arts, media criticism, sociology of learning and emotions, multi-cultural studies, politics of food
Nancy Krusoe, Emerita
Brij Lunine Writing pedagogy; w
riting across the curriculum, teaching research; writing pedagogy, reception studies, cultural studies, popular culture and youth subcultures
Patrick McKercher
Virtual reality educational environments, outreach projects, collaborative research with James Burke, environmental education
Ellen Newberry
Educational partnerships with K12 schools, transfer/re-entry student writing, womens studies, and queer studies
Sarah-Hope Parmeter, Coordinator, Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR)
Writing and democracy; multilingual, multicultural rhetorics; cross-age writing partnerships and public school collaboratives; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender young adult literature; rhetoric of the sciences
Annalisa Rava
Animals and human society, science fiction studies, literature and postmodernism
Dan Scripture, Emeritus
Jude Todd
Philosophies of nature, ecopsychology, Native American world views, permaculture, visual arts, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies
Amy Weaver
Creative nonfiction, writing pedagogy
Revised: 8/13/12
