Literature

303 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4778
http://literature.ucsc.edu/

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
Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; literature, arts, and social history of California

Christopher Connery
World literature and cultural studies; globalism and geographical thought; the 1960s; Marxism; pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies; cultural revolution

Nathaniel Deutsch
Hebrew Bible; rabbinic literature; Jewish mysticism; Hasidism; Eastern European Jewish life; ethnography

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
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature; sociolinguistics; political history; Celine; Genet

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

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

James B. Hall, Emeritus

Margo Hendricks
Early modern English literature and culture; theories and discourses of race, gender, drama, and theory; women playwrights; pre- and early modern studies

John O. Jordan
Dickens; Victorian literature and culture; the English novel; literature of South Africa; narrative theory

Sharon Kinoshita
Intercultural relations in 12th- and 13th-century literature; Mediterranean studies; globalism; postcolonial theory; 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)

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
Twentieth-century American literature; Afro-American literature; creative writing

Tyrus Miller
Modernist, avant-garde, and postmodernist literature; the interrelations of the arts in the 20th century; aesthetics; cinema and film theory; the Frankfurt School; philosophy and social theory; contemporary poetry and language arts

Helene Moglen, Emerita

Madeline Moore, Emerita

Marta Morello-Frosch, Emerita

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
Renaissance studies (specialization: Italy); early modern feminism; humanism and gender production; Renaissance narrative genres and technologies; early modern popular culture; letter-writing and epistolary culture; early modern literacy and non-canonical producers of writing (women, children, marginalized communities); historical transmission of “ideas of the Renaissance”; Renaissance Italian drama and performance genres; the northern court circles

Paul N. Skenazy, Emeritus

Greta Slobin, Emerita

S. Page Stegner, Emeritus

Richard Terdiman
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture; literary and cultural theory; contemporary critical theory; cultural globalization; digital humanities and digital publication

Thomas A. Vogler, 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

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

Louis Chude-Sokei
Modern and contemporary American literature; literatures of the African diaspora (Caribbean, African-American, and West African); Africana criticism and theory; media and popular culture; music and cultural politics

Vilashini Cooppan
Postcolonial studies; comparative and world literature; literatures of slavery and diaspora; globalization studies; cultural theory of race and ethnicity

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

Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
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

Loisa Nygaard
Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; romanticism; aesthetics and politics of landscape; military theory

Micah Perks
Reading and writing contemporary fiction; memoir; historical fiction; gender, literature, and culture; 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

Assistant Professor

A. Hunter Bivens
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel

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

Lecturer

George P. Hitchcock, Emeritus

Professor

Michael H. Cowan (American Studies)
American cultural theory and history; history of American studies; symbolic expression in American life; urban cultural studies; American literary studies; studies in the institutional culture of higher education

Teresa de Lauretis, Emerita

Charles W. Hedrick Jr. (History)
Greek and Roman history; epigraphy; historiography; political theory

Akasha Hull, Emerita

Gary B. Miles, Emeritus

Forrest G. Robinson (American Studies)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century American literature, including Mark Twain; the American West, and popular culture; biography and American culture theory

David Swanger, Emeritus

Lecturer

Roswell Spafford, Emerita