Literature
2012-13 General Catalog
303 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4778
http://literature.ucsc.edu/
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Jorge Aladro Font
Spanish mysticism; theory and historical developments of imagery in the Middle Ages to the baroque period; Renaissance and baroque Hispanic literature; Italian ideas in the Spanish Renaissance; Cervantes
George T. Amis, Emeritus
Karen Bassi
Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; historiography; visual and performance studies
Murray Baumgarten
Dickens; Victorian literature and culture; the Bible; translation; modern Jewish writing; the Holocaust
Harry Berger, Jr., Emeritus
Margaret R. Brose, Emerita
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Emerita
Christopher Connery
World literature and cultural studies; globalism and geographical thought; the 1960s; Marxism; pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies; cultural revolution
Robert M. Durling, Emeritus
John M. Ellis, Emeritus
Carla Freccero
Renaissance studies; French and Italian language and literature; early modern studies; postcolonial theories and literature; contemporary feminist theories and politics; queer theory; U.S. popular culture; posthumanism; animal studies
Pascale Gaitet, Emerita
Mary-Kay Gamel
Performance studies; ancient Mediterranean performance; Greek and Latin literatures; myth; reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts; film; feminist approaches to literature and performance
Susan Gillman
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture; theories of culture, race, and gender; world literature and cultural studies
Wlad Godzich
Theory of literature; philosophy and literature; emergent literature; translation theory; globalization and culture; European integration; knowledge society; literatures of Africa, the Caribbean, Europe (Central, Eastern, and Western), Brazil, Canada; detective and crime fiction; science fiction; medicine and literature
Jody Greene
Seventeenth- and 18th-century British and French literature and culture; pre- and early modern studies; critical theory; gay and lesbian cultural studies; gender studies; history of authorship; history of the book; human property
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Transnational Americas studies; Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures; 19th-century U.S. and Latin American literature; poetry; history of the book; reading and literacy; bilingualism
Margo Hendricks, Emerita
John O. Jordan
Dickens; Victorian literature and culture; the English novel; literature of South Africa; narrative theory
Sharon Kinoshita
Mediterranean studies; medieval Francophone and Mediterranean literature; literature, translation, and empire; postcolonial and globalization theory; Marco Polo; world literature and cultural studies
Norma Klahn
Latin American literary and cultural studies (specialization: Mexico); Chicano/Latino literature and culture from a cross-border perspective; modernity/postmodernity; poetics and politics; genre theory (novel, poetry, autobiography); contemporary critical theories (i.e., border, ethnic, feminist, transnational/global)
Kimberly J. Lau
Feminist theory; fairy tale studies; virtual worlds; social fictions; discourse analysis and ethnographic methods
H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
Psychoanalysis; poststructuralism; gender theories; theory of cultural change; cultural studies and popular culture: opera, film, American country music
John P. Lynch, Emeritus
Nathaniel E. Mackey, Emeritus
Tyrus Miller
Modernist, avant-garde, and postmodernist literature; the interrelations of the arts in the 20th century; aesthetics theory; communist and post-communist society, intellectual history, and culture, especially in East-Central and Southern Europe; cinema and film theory; the Frankfurt School; György Lukács; contemporary poetry and language arts
Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal
Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory
Helene Moglen, Emerita
Madeline Moore, Emerita
Micah Perks
Reading and writing contemporary fiction; memoir and historical fiction; alternative communities
Juan Poblete
Latin(o) American literatures; transnational/global cultures (literature, radio, film); Latin(o) American cultural studies; 19th-century studies; the history of reading practices
Daniel Selden
Afroasiatic languages and literatures; Greek and Latin; Hellenistic culture; the classical tradition; history of criticism; literary theory
Priscilla W. Shaw, Emerita
Deanna Shemek
Early modern Italian literature and culture; Renaissance feminism; humanism and gender production; letter-writing and epistolary culture; early modern literacy; historical “ideas of the Renaissance,” Renaissance drama; the northern court circles
Paul N. Skenazy, Emeritus
S. Page Stegner, Emeritus
Richard Terdiman, Emeritus
Georges Van Den Abbeele
Early modern French philosophy, literature, and culture; Francophone literature; travel narrative and tourism studies; relations between philosophy and literature; poststructuralist and postmodernist critical theory; film and film theory; East-West literary relations; West Coast regional history and literature
Thomas A. Vogler, Emeritus
Michael J. Warren, Emeritus
Rob Wilson
Transnational and postcolonial literatures; especially as located in Asia/Pacific emergences as posited against American empire of globalization; cultural poetics of America; the sublime; Longinus to Hiroshima; mongrel poetics of experimental writing, especially poetry
Karen Tei Yamashita
History and anthropology of Japanese immigration to Brazil; Asian American literature; modern fiction; playwriting
Associate Professor
Vilashini Cooppan
Postcolonial studies; comparative and world literature; literatures of slavery and diaspora; globalization studies; cultural theory of race and ethnicity
Sean Keilen
Shakespeare; Ovid; the classical tradition; early British literature; Renaissance humanism; poetry and poetics, imitation; theory of literature; interpretation and its history; the division of the arts and sciences; creative criticism; literature and the fine arts; literature and ethics; psychoanalysis; the passions; the senses; beauty
Loisa Nygaard
Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; Goethe; Romantic fiction; landscape and landscape aesthetics; xenophobia in Germany
Assistant Professor
Dorian Bell
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature and intellectual history; histories of empire and anti-Semitism; literature and science; film studies; digital humanities
A. Hunter Bivens
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Christopher Chen
Twentieth- and 21st-century African American literature; Asian American literature; 20th- and 21st-century poetry in the U.S.; comparative ethnic literary studies and theory; literary formalisms and comparative racialization; contemporary poetics and politics
Christine Hong
Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; Korean diasporic cultural production; Pacific Rim studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; human rights discourse; law and literature; narrative theory; film and visual studies
G.S. Sahota
Postcolonial studies, world literature; Indian literary and intellectual history (especially in Urdu, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, and English); religion and modernity (Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism); romanticism; Marxism; translation
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Professor
Charles W. Hedrick Jr. (History)
Greek and Roman history; epigraphy; historiography; political theory
Forrest G. Robinson (Humanities)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century American literature; including Mark Twain; the American West; and popular culture; biography and American culture theory Associate Professor
Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies)
South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; 19th-century interdisciplinary studies
Senior SOE Lecturer
Gildas Hamel (History)
History of Israel; Hebrew and Greek bible; Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and Christianity; social history of the ancient world; history of technology; classical languages; Celtic cultures
Revised: 8/29/12
