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Kimberly J Lau

Kimberly J Lau

Professor, Literature, Provost, College Nine and John R. Lewis College

Literature Department

Areas of expertise: Feminist Theory, Race, Popular Culture


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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: Activism, Art Theory, Feminist Theory, Aesthetics, American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts


Biography, Education and Training

Jennifer A. González, Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture, is affiliated with the History of Consciousness, Latin American/Latinx Studies, and Feminist Studies. She also teaches annual seminars at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has published widely in journals such as Camera Obscura, Bomb, Ope... more »


Areas of expertise: Religion and Secularism, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexuality


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Harvard University M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Benjamin L Carson

Benjamin L Carson

Professor, Music Department, Director, Graduate Studies in Music, Director, Creative Technologies

Music Department

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Ben Leeds Carson

Professor, Director

blc@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Music Composition, Experimental Music, Improvisation, Perception, Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis


Biography, Education and Training

Ben Carson is a composer and theorist specializing in perception studies and popular culture studies in music. His music is available on Sideband Records, Centaur Records, Albany Records, and on other labels, and has been performed throughout the US and at international festivals, including "June in Buffalo," Gerngesehen (Köln), New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for the Contemporary Piano, at the Smithsonian, Blurred Edges in Hamburg, and at REDCAT in LA, where crit... more »


Areas of expertise: Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Film and Politics, Globalization, Nationalism, Colonialism, Media Studies, Race


Biography, Education and Training

  My research and teaching interests center on popular media, nationalism, globalization, feminism, postcolonial theory, cultural theory, and modalities of difference such as race, caste, and gender. My book, Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, May, 2022), focuses on the intertwined projects of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India and their narration in popular culture. https://www.rutgersuniver... more »


Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism


Biography, Education and Training

(On sabbatical until Fall 2023) I trained in critical theory, black radical thought, and feminist theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and served as a founding coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Research Cluster and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective. After two years as faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at th... more »

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criticalrealitiesstudio@gmail.com


Areas of expertise: Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental Justice, Digital Arts, Digital Humanities, Digital Media, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory


Biography, Education and Training

micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (forthcoming October AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Glor... more »


Areas of expertise: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Ethics, Feminist Theory


Biography, Education and Training

Prior to arriving in Santa Cruz, I was at Brown doing postdoctoral research funded by SSHRC. I have received my PhD from the University of Alberta. I work on contemporary issues in value theory, in particular moral psychology and aesthetics, and on the history of these fields.

Lisa Marie Rollins

Lisa Marie Rollins

Assistant Professor, Playwriting and Black Drama

Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)

Areas of expertise: Theater, Playwriting, Direction (Theater), African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Feminist Theory, Writing


Biography, Education and Training

Professor Rollins (she/her) is a writer, director and new work developer. She is a Member of Dramatist Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers. She has been a writing resident with Djerassi, Hedgebrook, CALLALOO London and more.  She received a Wallace Gerbode Playwright Award for a commission with Crowded Fire Theater for her new play KARA. She was honored with a “Bay Brilliant” Artist Award from San Francisco’s KQE... more »

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