Writing Program
2012-13 General Catalog
166 Kresge College
(831) 459-2431
http://writing.ucsc.edu/
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
James Wilson, Senior 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
Heather Shearer
Roswell Spafford, Emerita
Lecturer
Margaret Amis
Writing; pre- and early modern English literature; prose style
Sondra Archimedes, College Nine Writing Coordinator
Victorian literature and culture; gender studies; cultural studies
Jeffrey M. Arnett
Creativity and well-being
Derede Arthur
Cultural studies, 18th–20th-century British literature, theory of the novel, theories of education, cognitive ethology
Mark Baker, Oakes College Writing Coordinator
Media and democracy, postmodernism, 20th-century literature and culture of the Americas, community participation, writing and social responsibility
Francesca Caparas-Hardwick
Catherine Carlstroem
American literature and culture, science/speculative fiction; American drama; human biological sciences (e.g. evolutionary history, physiology, neurology).
Dina El Dessouky
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
James Fazzino
Veronica Flanagan, Kresge College Writing Coordinator
19th- and 20th-century American literature; translation; French literature
Maureen Foster
The novels and short stories of American visionary Philip K. Dick, and the films based upon his work; independent films and women filmmakers
Joy Hagen, College Eight Writing Coordinator
Ecological risks of genetically engineered organisms; population dynamics; agroecology and food systems; science and uncertainty
Erica Halk, College Ten Writing Coordinator
Post-secondary reading and writing pedagogy; American literature; cultural criticism; gender studies
Roxanne Power Hamilton
Writing, poetry, magazine editing, inter-arts performance, gender and queer studies
Noria Jablonski
Creative writing; contemporary American literature; disability studies
Robin King, Oakes College Writing Coordinator
Visual arts, media criticism, sociology of learning and emotions, multi-cultural studies, politics of food
Lindsay Knisely
Digital identity production in youth; establishing ethos in writing; writing of witness; African-American literature and literary theory; writing as social activism; writing as identity development; poetry analysis and interpretation; development of critical consciousness
Toby Loeffler
Writing pedagogy; early 20th-century British and Spanish literature; history and theory of the British and European novel; British and European modernism; literature and nationalism; ideology; cultural studies
Philip Longo
Composition; 20th-century American literature; African American literature; sexuality and gender; critical theory; the 1960s
Brij Lunine, Cowell College Writing Coordinator
Writing pedagogy; writing 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
Ingrid Moody Lariviere, Porter College Writing Coordinator
Emily Murai
First-year composition and writing; International and global affairs; Science and technology studies; Human geography
Ellen Newberry, Merrill College Writing Coordinator
Educational partnerships with K–12 schools, transfer/re-entry student writing, women’s 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, Crown College Writing Coordinator
Animals and human society, science fiction studies, literature and postmodernism
Jessica Samuels
Denise Silva
Cultural studies, urban studies, gender studies, 19th and 20th century British literature, composition & rhetoric
Kiva Silver
Modern European History; Nation-state Development & Nationalism; Immigration & Integration in Europe; Immigration & Integration in the Building Trades; Rhetoric and Composition; Comparative Religion
Robin Somers
Sustainable agriculture and cooking organically; online journalism (blogging), Native American literature, culture and politics
Stephen Sweat
The foundations of the novel; literacy and the lower-classes in England in the eighteenth-century; figurations of the monstrous; satire; anarchism in education
Terry Terhaar
Writing in the sciences; inquiry-based (research) writing; environmental writing and thought; biodiversity conservation; environmental science and policy; environmental ethics; religion, spirituality, and nature.
David Thorn
Amy Weaver, Stevenson College Writing Coordinator
Creative nonfiction, writing pedagogy
Lothlorien Watkins
Lene Whitley-Putz
Revised: 8/31/12
