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Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Writing Program

Title Lecturer

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Cowell College

Faculty Type Lecturer

Primary Office Location Crown College Faculty Wing
127

Office Hours All meetings for the winter 2023 quarter are via Zoom or in person on Wednesdays from 12-2 PM PT. I am also available by appointment if those hours do not work with your schedule. Please email me for the office hours sign-up sheet and the Zoom link at lgalas@ucsc.edu.

Mail Stop Writing Program

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. in Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz (2019) 

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. American Literature, Modes of Reading (Landscape Literature as a Mode of Reading), Translation Studies, Chicana/o Literature, and Borderland Studies

Teaching Interests

First-year composition; critical reading and writing; genre studies; feminist, intersectional, and de-colonial pedagogies and practices; Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century Latina/o Literature; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. American Literature; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Courses WRIT 2: Re-memory as a Tool of Empowerment through Writing
Cowell College One
WRIT 1: Introduction to Composition