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Carla Freccero
Professor
freccero@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, French, Queer Studies, Animal-Human Relationships, Feminist Theory, European Studies, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies
Biography, Education and Training
1984 Ph.D. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1980 M.Phil. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1977 B.A. cum laude Harvard University, History & Literature Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include Father Figures (Cornell,1991); Popular Culture (NYU, 1999); and Queer/Early/Modern (Duke, 2006). She co-edited Premodern Sexualities (Routledge, 1... more »
Areas of expertise: Writing, Poetry, Literature, Personal and Social Identities, Diversity, Digital Humanities, Social Justice
Biography, Education and Training
Lindsay Knisely has taught writing and social justice at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 2004. She is a two-time winner of the UC Santa Cruz Excellence in Teaching Award. Lindsay is a Continuing Lecturer at Oakes College and in the Writing Program, where she focuses on supporting the academic success of first-generation students. • B.A. in Creative Writing, Minor in Psychology, Oberlin College, May 1999. Concentrations... more »
Areas of expertise: Classical Studies, Ancient World / Classics, Literature, Visual Culture, Museum Studies, Classics, Critical Theory, Drama, Gender Studies, Death/Mortality Studies
Biography, Education and Training
I received my BA in Classics from UCSC in 1980 and my Ph.D. in Classics from Brown University in 1987. I have taught at UCSC since 1989 where I am Professor of Classics and Literature. I served as chair of the Literature Department (2008-2012), as Director of the Classics Program, and as director of the EAP Program in the Netherlands. I have also served as Chair of the Senate Committee on Faculty Welfare, as Senior Co-Chair of the Women's Classical Caucus of th... more »
Areas of expertise: German Studies, Literature, Marxism, Critical Theory
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BA Bard College; PhD University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: Ancient World / Classics, Literature, Middle East Studies, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Film, Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies and Judaism
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Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature) B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)
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Susan Gillman
Areas of expertise: Literature, African American / Black Studies, American Studies, Race, US History, Slavery, Ocean Studies, Language and Linguistics, Popular Culture, Atlantic World
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I am a scholar of race and slavery in the United States, the Americas, and beyond. From my usual base in the nineteenth century, I approach the study of national literatures and cultures from a “worlded” perspective developed by the cluster in World Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSC. My first book – focusing on Mark Twain’s lifelong interest in identity and imposture - explores his engagement with the changing systems of racial classification in the late nineteenth-... more »
Areas of expertise: Writing, Literature, Modernism, Fiction, Nationalism
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Cornell University M.A., Comparative Literature, Cornell University M.A., English Literature, CSUDH M.A., Spanish Literature, UCLA B.A., Classical Civilizations and Spanish and Linguistics, UCLA
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Allison Arteaga Soergel
Public Information Representative, Social Sciences
asoergel@ucsc.edu
831-459-4399
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Border Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Literature
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I'm Professor and chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2013 to 2018, I directed UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Chicano Latino Research Center).In 2014, my colleagues and I launched our doctoral program, the first in the world to link Latinx studies and Latin American studies. I help shape and expand these fields and I work for a more diverse, equita... more »
Areas of expertise: Italian Studies, Film, History, Literature, Ethnomusicology
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A native of Italy, I graduated from the University of Bari, Italy, with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, majoring in English. I taught for several years at UC Davis and then moved to UC Santa Cruz where I have been teaching all levels of Italian for over two decades. I have an immense dedication for teaching, one of my goals is to provide my students with language skills that they may not encounter in the textbook. This includes using idioms and common catch phrases/words. I ... more »
Areas of expertise: Asian American Pacific Islander History, African American / Black Studies, Poetry, Literature
Director, The Writing Center, Lecturer and Core Course Coordinator, Oakes College, Lecturer, The Writing Program
Oakes College, Writing ProgramInstructor, Teaching Assistant, Doctoral Candidate
Literature Department, Critical Race and Ethnic StudiesAreas of expertise: Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, War
Biography, Education and Training
Talib is a doctoral candidate, teaching assistant, and instructor in literature and critical race and ethnic studies. He focuses on the racial and queer politics of American imperial militarism in Asia and its diasporas, with special attention to under-theorized regions of the so-called “war on terror,” e.g. Pakistan and the Philippines. He got his BA from UCSC and MS in social policy from Lund University (Sweden).
Areas of expertise: Writing, Literature
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Ph.D., Literature, UC Santa Cruz M.A., English, San Francisco State University B.A., Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Areas of expertise: Literature, Renaissance Studies, Affect Studies, Religion and Secularism, Poetry, Digital Humanities, Italian Studies
Areas of expertise: Classics, Literature
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Yale University (1995) B.A., Classics, summa cum laude, Princeton University (1990)
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Shannon Deoul
shannon@razpr.com
Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Performance, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Digital Humanities, Writing, Direction (Theater), Literature, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media
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Samantha Gorman is an interdisciplinary writer, director and artist who does practice-based research in interactive narrative, games, digital performance/theater, and the theory and practice of immersive media (AR/VR). Since 2014, she has been the co-lead of established art/game studio Tender Claws. She is known for projects that make critical, creative interventions in form/technology (e-readers, mobile VR, AR, machine learning, biometrics), while also functioning as commercially relea... more »
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