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UC Santa Barbara General CatalogUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

English

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
South Hall 2500-2700 (Faculty Offices and Research Centers)
South Hall 3400 Suite (Advising & Administrative Offices)
Telephone: (805) 893-7488
E-mail: englishinfo@english.ucsb.edu
Website: www.english.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook

 


 
Faculty
Heidi Amin-Hong, Assistant Professor
Bernadette Andrea, PhD, Cornell University, Professor (Renaissance/early modern studies, Middle East studies, women's studies, literary/cultural theory)
Stephanie Batiste, PhD, George Washington University, Professor (performance studies, Black cultural studies, critical race theory, African American literature and American studies)
Felice Blake, PhD, UC Santa Cruz, Associate Professor (African American Literature, gender and sexuality studies)
Heather Blurton, PhD, Columbia University, Professor (medieval literature)
Maurizia Boscagli, PhD, Brown University, Professor (gender studies, modern literature)
Julie Carlson, PhD, University of Chicago, Professor (British romantic literature, theater studies, trauma studies, imagination and social justice)
E. Heckendorn Cook, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor (18th-century British literature and culture, theater history and literature & environment)
Jeannine DeLombard, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Professor (pre-1900 American history & literature, African American history & literature, legal humanities, slavery studies)
James Donelan, PhD, Yale University, Continuing Lecturer (interdisciplinary humanities writing, Romanticism, aesthetics, literature and music, philosophical approaches to writing and literature)
Brian Donnelly, PhD, University of York, Continuing Lecturer (Victorian Literature, Science Fiction)
Jeremy Douglass, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Associate Professor (Literature and Technology, Digital Humanities)
Enda Duffy, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (English literature, post-colonial literature, Irish literature)
Patricia Fumerton, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Renaissance literature and culture, popular culture, broadside ballads and print history)
Bishnupriya Ghosh, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (global media theory, 20th-century British and postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality studies) Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Andrew Griffin, PhD, McMaster University, Associate Professor (early modern drama, early modern historiography)
Kenneth Hiltner, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (literary theory, Renaissance literature, literature and the environment)
Yunte Huang, PhD, State University of New York, Professor (Asian-American literature, American modernism, 20thh-century American poetry, trans-Pacific literature)
Melody Jue, PhD, Duke University, Associate Professor (ocean humanities, environmental humanities, media theory, science fiction, contemporary American literature, science and technology studies)
Jim Kearney, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor (English Renaissance, Shakespeare)
Rachael King, Associate Professor
Alan Liu, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Digital humanities, the humanities in public life, Romantic literature, literary theory)
David Marshall, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Professor (18th-century fiction and aesthetics; narrative theory; Shakespeare; lyric poetry; autobiography; philosophy and literature)
Mark Maslan, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (American literature; contemporary literature in English; literary theory; Jewish studies)
Cherrie Moraga, Professor
Ben Olguin, Professor
Sowon Park, DPhil, Oxford University, Assistant Professor (Cognitive Literary Criticism, Global Modernism, Suffrage Literature, Medical Humanities)
Rita Raley, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (digital humanities, new media, electronic literature, contemporary cultural studies, Global English, 20th-21st century Anglophone literature)
Swati Rana, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (Comparative Ethnic Literature, Asian American Literature, Transnational American Studies, Literary Theory and Methods, Creative Writing)
Daniel Reeve, DPhil, University of Oxford, Assistant Professor (Medieval literatures, literary theory)
Amrah Salomon Johnson, Assistant Professor
Russell Samolsky, PhD, University of Colorado, Associate Professor (convergence of postcolonial discourse, modernism, and Jewish studies)
Teresa Shewry, PhD, Duke University, Associate Professor (Anglophone literatures, literature and environment)
Cathy Thomas, Assistant Professor
Candace Waid, PhD, Yale University, Professor (American Literature, 19th- and 20-century, Southern literature; African-American literature, Labor History, History of Cultures and Native American/American Indian Literatures)

 
Emeriti Faculty
H Abbott, PhD, University of Toronto
Steven Allaback, PhD, University of Washington
Sheridan Blau, PhD, Brandeis University Joint Appointment: EDUC
Robert Erickson, PhD, Yale University
Michael Fernandez, MA, CSU San Francisco
Louise Fradenburg Joy, PhD, University of Virginia
Giles Gunn, PhD, University of Chicago Joint Appointment: GLOBL
Carl Guterrez-Jones, PhD, Cornell University
Paul Hernadi, PhD/PhD, University of Vienna/Yale University
Shirley Lim, PhD, Brandeis University
William Marks, PhD, Stanford University
Stephen Miko, PhD, Yale University
Christopher Newfield, PhD, Cornell University
Michael Oconnell, PhD, Yale University
Anne Pidgeon, MA, University of Michigan
Mark Rose, PhD, Harvard University
Logan Speirs, MA, Cambridge University
William Warner, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Kay Young, PhD, Harvard University

 
Affiliated Faculty
Susan Derwin, PhD (Germanic and Slavic Studies)
Jody Enders, PhD (French and Italian)
Constance Penley, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Erika Rappaport, PhD (History)
Chela Sandoval, PhD (Chicana and Chicano Studies)