Chair: Elisabeth Weber
Vice-Chair and Graduate Advisor: Sydney Lévy

ADVISORY BOARD

Michael Berry
berry@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, popular culture in modern China, fiction and drama of late imperial China, and translation studies

Julie Carlson
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
British Romanticism, Feminist and Queer theories, early nineteenth-century British theatre, Black Romanticism

Susan Derwin
derwin@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Holocaust studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European novel, film studies, autobiography, psychoanalysis, critical theory

Ronald Egan
ronegan@eastasian.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, East Asian Studies
Chinese literature, aesthetics

Yunte Huang
yhuang@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Asian-American literature, American modernism, twentieth-century American poetry

Wolf Kittler
kittler@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Eighteenth- nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, art history, media technology, science and philosophy

Sydney Lévy
slevy@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor
Professor, French and Italian
Contemporary poetry, literary theory, fantastic literature, science and literature

Sara Lindheim
lindheim@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Classics
Latin poetry, critical and feminist theory

Dwight Reynolds
dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
Arabic languages and literatures, folklore and folk life

Harvey Sharrer
sharrer@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Medieval Spanish and Portuguese literatures, comparative medieval literature, Catalan

Jon Snyder
snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Italian literature and comparative European literature, early-modern and modern periods

Sven Spieker
spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
East-Central European literatures, contemporary art (especially in the East-Central-European context), the theory and practice of the historical avant-gardes in East-Central Europe and the US, and the interplay of media, art, and critical theory.

Elisabeth Weber
weber@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Chair
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
French philosophy and theory, German Judaism of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature

Simon Williams
sjwill@dramadance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Dramatic Art
European theatre history, dramatic literature

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Geraldo Aldana
gvaldana@chicst.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Maya hieroglyphic history, Mesoamerican art, experimental archaeology, science studies, culture theory

Silvia Bermúdez
bermudez@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth-century peninsular and Latin American poetry and poetics, literary and cultural theory, Galician poetry, popular culture

Maurizia Boscagli
boscagli@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Gender studies and Feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, fin de siecle literature, critical and cultural theory, theories of mass culture

Edward Branigan
branigan@filmstudies.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film theory, aesthetics, narrative, point-of-view, Japanese cinema

Leo Cabranes-Grant
cabranes@dramadance.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Dramatic Art
Spanish and Latin-American drama and theatre history, “minority” theatre

João Camilo dos Santos
jcamilo@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Portuguese and Brazilian literature, comparative literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, “neo-realismo”, literary theory, analysis and criticism of narrative, poetry, and drama

Thomas Carlson
tcarlson@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Christianity and culture, religion, and philosophy

Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
ecook@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, English
Eighteenth-century British and French literature and cultural studies

Richard Corum
corum@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Lecturer, English
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, critical theory

James Donelan
donelan@writing.ucsb.edu (CV)
Lecturer, Writing Program
English and German romanticism, Victorian literature, poetics, aesthetics, interdisciplinary humanities research writing, literary theory, idealist philosophy, autobiography, history and culture of technology, world literature, opera, science fiction

Enda Duffy
duffy@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Post-colonial literatures and cultures, modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies, James Joyce

Francis Dunn
fdunn@classics.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Classics
Greek drama, Greek poetry and Latin poetry, time, narrative and closure

Jody Enders
jenders@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Medieval literature, history of rhetoric, performance theory, interrelations of law and literature

Claudio Fogu
cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Relationship between Italian modernism and mass culture; rascist forms of imaginary and their relations to representations of fascism; relationships between 20th-century continental philosophy and visual culture

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg
lfraden@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Medieval English and Scottish literature, critical theory, gender and sexualities, psychoanalysis

Colin Gardner
colinrgardner@cox.net (CV)
Professor, Department of Art
Critical theory, film studies, the culture of the Cold War, visual literacy, Deleuze and minor literatures

Giles Gunn
ggunn@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
American literature, literary theory and criticism, American cultural and religious studies, literature and religion

Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Chicano studies, contemporary fiction, Pan-American studies, critical legal studies

Richard Hecht
ariel@religion.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Religious Studies
History of religions, Judaic studies

Richard Helgerson
rhelgers@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Renaissance literature and culture

Jocelyn Holland
holland@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Goethe, German romanticism, rhetoric, philosophy of nature

Dolores Hsu
dhsu@music.ucsb.edu
Professor, Music
Text and music, nineteenth-century music, organology, ethnomusicology

Dominique Jullien
djullien@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, Proust studies, Borges studies, intertextuality and rewriting, travel narratives, representation of the artist in prose fiction

Stephanie LeMenager
slemen@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century U.S. literature and cultures, literatures of the North American West, environmental theories and representations, and rhetorics of slavery and freedom

Suzanne Jill Levine
sjlevine@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American literature, comparative literary studies, translation studies, literary theory

Didier Maleuvre
maleuvre@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Professor, French and Italian
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, aesthetic theory, philosophy, art history

Harold Marcuse
marcuse@history.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, History
Modern German history

David Marshall
dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature and aesthetics

Anne Maurseth
amaurseth@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Assistant Professor, French and Italian
Eighteeenth-century French and comparative literature, Enlightenment studies, literary theory, aesthetics, epistemology and science

Ellen McCracken
emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American and U.S. Latino literature, literary theory

Catherine Nesci
cnesci@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Modern French literature and intellectual history, literary theory, feminist and gender studies, French and Francophone women writers and film directors

Ēlide Oliver
elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, literary theory, theory and practice of translation, history of ideas, history of art and music, philosophy, aesthetics, art, music, musicology

Sara Poot-Herrera
spooth@spanport.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Mexican and Spanish-American literature

William Powell
bpowell@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Cultural Studies
History of Chinese religion, Buddhist studies, sacred geography and the production of space

Eric Prieto
prieto@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Twentieth-century literature and theory, Francophone literature and culture, music, narrative poetics, aesthetics

Laurence Rickels
rickels@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Technology and melancholia, group and adolescent psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the Third Reich, genealogy of media, vampirism

Mark Rose
mrose@english.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, English
Dramatic and non-dramatic Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, science fiction, history and theory of intellectual property

Katherine Saltzman-Li
ksaltzli@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and drama

Cynthia Skenazi
cskenazi@french-ital.ucsb.edu (CV)
Professor, French and Italian
Renaissance literature and culture, Belgian literature in French

Sven Spieker
spieker@gss.ucsb.edu (CV)
Associate Professor, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
European modernism, with an emphasis on the European avant-gardes, postwar and contemporary literature and art (especially in Eastern and Central Europe), and critical theory

Candace Waid
waid@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
American literature and culture, gender studies, African-American literature, Southern literature, and regional literature

Janet Walker
jwalker@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Film History and Historiography, Documentary Film, Film and Ethnography, the Western, and Trauma and Memory

William Warner
warner@english.ucsb.edu
Professor, English
Eighteenth-century literature, the novel, media history and theory, technology and literature

Kay Young
kayyoung@english.ucsb.edu
Associate Professor, English
Victorian studies, the novel, Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s, narrative theory, the relationship of narrative to architecture, philosophy, music, and dance