History of Consciousness
2017-18 General Catalog
415 Humanities 1
(831) 459-2461
http://histcon.ucsc.edu/
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Gopal Balakrishnan, Professor of History of Consciousness
Classics of political thought from Plato to Rousseau, early modern and modern European intellectual history, historical sociology, the history and future of capitalism, nationalism
Banu Bargu, Professor of History of Consciousness
Political theory, especially modern and contemporary thought; critical theory; theories of sovereignty and subjectivity; biopolitics and the body; resistance movements and practices; prisons and political prisoners; Middle East politics
Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature
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
David S. Marriott, Professor of History of Consciousness
Poetics, black cultural studies, literary and psychoanalytic theory, visual culture studies, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, Caribbean modernism, Fanon studies
Robert L. Meister, Professor of Politics and History of Consciousness
Critical human rights theory; moral philosophy; political jurisprudence; political theology; political economy; psychoanalysis; Marxian theory; financialization; 21st-century capitalism; institutional analysis; historical justice; antidiscrimination law
Eric Porter, Professor of History, and History of Consciousness
Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; jazz and popular music studies; urban studies
Massimiliano Tomba, Professor of History of Consciousness
Intellectual and modern history, political and critical theory, theories of the state, continental philosophy, particularly modern and contemporary philosophy
Victor Burgin, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
James T. Clifford, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
Angela Y. Davis, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Barbara L. Epstein, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness
Teresa de Lauretis, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, Literature, and Film and Digital Media
Donna J. Haraway, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Hayden White, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
Affiliated Faculty
Martin Berger, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Gender, race, and representation in U.S. culture
Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature
World literature and cultural studies, globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, cultural revolution
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History
Modern Jewish history; Eastern European Jewish culture; ethnography, Hasidism; history of religions
Jennifer A. González, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
Deborah Gould, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Political emotion; social movements and contentious politics; classic and contemporary social theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queer theory
Megan Thomas, Associate Professor of Politics
Political theory, especially of the 19th century; nationalist thought; Orientalism; comparative colonialism; Southeast Asia
Tyrus Miller, Professor of Literature
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
Jennifer Reardon, Professor of Sociology
Issues of social identity as influenced by the new sciences of genetics and genomics; intersection of the sociology of science and knowledge and the sociology of race, gender, and class
Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics
Early modern and modern political theory, feminist theory, cultural history, race politics, postcolonial theory
Associated Faculty
Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies
South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; 19th-century interdisciplinary studies
Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies
Feminist science studies, materialism, deconstruction, poststructuralism, posthumanism, multi-species studies, science and justice, physics, 20th-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, ethics, philosophy of physics, feminist, queer, and trans theories
A. Hunter Bivens, Associate Professor of Literature
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Vilashini Cooppan, Associate Professor of Literature
Postcolonial studies, comparative and world literature, literatures of slavery and diaspora, globalization studies, cultural theory of race and ethnicity
Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture
Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology of religion, secularism, Islam, multiculturalism/pluralism; colonial and post-colonial France, Europe
Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Professor Emerita of Latin American and Latino Studies
Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature
Transnational American studies; literatures of the 19th-century Americas; critical race studies; translation theory; comparative history of slavery and emancipation; world literature and cultural studies
Wlad Godzich, Professor of Literature
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
Herman S. Gray, Professor of Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory
Jody Greene, Professor of Literature and Feminist Studies
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
Susan Harding, Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Gail Hershatter, Professor of History
Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; gender history; history of sexuality; feminist theory; history, memory, and nostalgia
David C. Hoy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Kimberly Jannarone, Professor of Theater Arts
Directing, performance history, dramatic criticism, modernism
Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature
Mediterranean studies; medieval francophone and Mediterranean literature; literature, translation, and empire; postcolonial and globalization theory; Marco Polo; world literature and cultural studies
Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature; Provost, Oakes College
Feminism, discourse, and power; feminist theory; discourse, analysis, and ethnographic methods; folklore and narrative; globalization
Dean Mathiowetz, Associate Professor of Politics
Political theory, contemporary and historical; theories of affect, agency, citizenship, democracy, language, and subjectivity; classical and critical political economy
Helene Moglen, Professor Emerita of Literature and Feminist Studies
Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Ravi Rajan, Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics
B. Ruby Rich, Professor of Community Studies
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
Warren Sack, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory
Daniel Selden, Professor of Literature
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
Richard Terdiman, Professor Emeritus of Literature
Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology
Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Revised: 09/01/17
