Literature
2014-15 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 literature and culture; pre- and early modern studies; critical theory, especially Derrida; poststructuralism and ethics; 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, Emeritus
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); critical theory (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; history, theory, and interpretation of horror film; affect and affect theory
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
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; film history, theory, and analysis
Priscilla W. Shaw, Emerita
Deanna Shemek
Renaissance Italian literature and culture; early modern feminism; humanism; letter-writing and epistolary culture; early modern literacy and media; Renaissance theater; the northern court circles; digital humanities
Paul N. Skenazy, Emeritus
S. Page Stegner, Emeritus
Richard Terdiman, Emeritus
Thomas A. Vogler, Emeritus
Michael J. Warren, Emeritus
Rob Wilson
Transnational and postcolonial literatures, especially as located and transformed in Asia/Pacific; cultural-political emergences as posited against empires of globalization; cultural poetics of America in the Pacific and Oceania; the sublime, Longinus to Hiroshima; poetics of experimental writing, especially poetry; the poetry and cultural poetics of Bob Dylan; Beat beatitude, social and literary, from Jesus to Juliana Spahr et al; San Francisco as Global City, with its literature read as archive of vision and critique; Pacific Rim cities from Hong Kong and Seoul to Taipei, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
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 US multiethnic poetry and poetics; comparative ethnic literary studies; literary formalisms and comparative racialization; contemporary experimental poetics and political theory
Martin Devecka
Greek and Latin languages and literatures; cultural history; Arabic language and literature; animal studies; history of technology; Renaissance studies
Camilo Gomez-Rivas
Medieval and Mediterranean studies; western Mediterranean historical and cultural studies; refugees, law and society, and religious identity; Arabic literature and cultural history; medieval Iberian literature and culture
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
Ronaldo V. Wilson
20th-century and contemporary African American literature; poetry; contemporary American poetry and poetics; Black visual culture; recent experimental writers and artists
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Professor
Charles W. Hedrick Jr. (History)
Greek and Roman history; epigraphy; historiography; political theory
Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal (Latin American and Latino Studies)
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
Associate Professor
Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies)
South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; 19th-century interdisciplinary studies
Revised: 09/01/14
