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Pronouns she/her/hers

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Literature Department

Title Assistant Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
Room 329

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Literature Department

Biography, Education and Training

Hannah Rachel Cole is a scholar of environmental humanities and Caribbean literature. Her current book project examines representations of plant life in Caribbean literature in the aftermath of the plantation system. She serves as co-PI of the More-Than-Humanities Laboratory, a cluster of The Humanities Institute. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Before joining UCSC, she taught in Harvard University’s History & Literature program and served as Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration and the Yale Environmental Humanities Program.