Literature
2017-18 General Catalog
303 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4778
http://literature.ucsc.edu/
Program Statement | 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
Karen Bassi
Greek and Latin literatures; gender, literary, and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; tragedy; historiography; visual and performance studies; death studies
Christopher Connery
World literature and cultural studies; globalism and geographical thought; the 1960s; Marxism; pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies; cultural revolution
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
Susan Gillman
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
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
17th- 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
Sean Keilen
Shakespeare; Ovid; history and theory of criticism; literature and the fine arts; public education; psychoanalysis; beauty
Sharon Kinoshita
Mediterranean studies; medieval Francophone and Mediterranean literature; the global Middle Ages; literature, translation, and empire; postcolonial and globalization theory; Marco Polo; world literature and cultural studies
Kimberly J. Lau
Feminist theory; fairy tale studies; politics and genre formations; U.S. popular culture; virtual worlds and digital cultures
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
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
Micah Perks
Reading and writing; U.S. fiction; creative non-fiction and historical fiction; U.S. alternative communities; U.S. captivity narratives; feminism
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
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
Marlene Tromp
Social justice, particularly gender, racial, and economic justice; marginal culture; violence against women; racially-motivated violence; the law; economics; social ethics; 19th-century literature and culture
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
Dorian Bell
19th- and 20th-century French literature and intellectual history; histories of empire and anti-Semitism; literature and science; film studies; digital humanities
A. Hunter Bivens
20th- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Vilashini Cooppan
Postcolonial studies; comparative and world literature; literatures of slavery and diaspora; globalization studies; cultural theory of race and ethnicity
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 and cultural studies; Indian literary and intellectual history (especially in Urdu, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Hindi, and English); historiography of South Asia; epic; 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
Assistant Professor
Christopher Chen
20th- and 21st-century African American literature; Asian American literature; comparative ethnic literary studies; modern and contemporary U.S. poetry and poetics; contemporary U.S. experimental writing; racial capitalism and theories of comparative racialization
Martin Devecka
Greek and Latin languages and literatures; cultural history; Arabic language and literature; animal studies; history of technology; Renaissance studies
Renee Fox
Victorian literature and culture; 19th- through 21st-century Irish studies; the Gothic; poetry; Neo-Victorian fiction and adaptation; history of science; queer theory
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
Amanda Smith
Contemporary Latin American literatures; indigeneity and shamanism; ecocritical theory; geocriticism; space and mapping
Zac Zimmer
Contemporary and comparative colonial-contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies; science and technology in society; politics, aesthetics and technology; new media; science fiction
Literature Emeriti Faculty
George T. Amis, Emeritus
Murray Baumgarten, Emeritus
Harry Berger, Jr., Emeritus
Margaret R. Brose, Emerita
Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Emerita
John M. Ellis, Emeritus
Pascale Gaitet, Emerita
Mary-Kay Gamel, Emerita
Margo Hendricks, Emerita
John O. Jordan, Emeritus
Norma Klahn, Emerita
John P. Lynch, Emeritus
Nathaniel E. Mackey, Emeritus
Helene Moglen, Emerita
Loisa Nygaard, Emerita
Paul N. Skenazy, Emeritus
S. Page Stegner, Emeritus
Richard Terdiman, Emeritus
Thomas A. Vogler, Emeritus
Michael J. Warren, Emeritus
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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; Latin American critical race theory; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, cinema and social change in Cuba; gender and dissident sexualities in Latin American literature and cinema; queer theory in/and Latin America
Associate Professor
Anjali Arondekar (Feminist Studies)
South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; 19th-century interdisciplinary studies
Revised: 09/01/17
