Carolyn Martin Shaw
Professor, Anthropology
B.S., Ph.D. (Michigan State University)

459.4666
cmclark(at)ucsc.edu
Office: 409 Soc. Sci. 1

    Research Interests
      Teaching Specialties: African ethnography and African women, social theory, and sexuality.
      Area of Research: Political economy, women and gender, colonial discourse.
      Area of Fieldwork: Kenya and Zimbabwe.

    Selected Publications
      Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex and Class in Kenya. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

      "Louis Leakey as Ethnographer: On the Southern Kikuyu Before 1903." Canadian Journal of African Studies,       23(3):25-42, 1989.

      "Land and Food, Women and Power: A Re-Analysis of the Contribution of Domestic Activities to the Political Economy       of the Nineteenth Century Kikuyu," Africa, 80(4):357-69, 1980.

Marcia Ochoa
Assistant Professor, Community Studies


459.4356
marcia8a(at)ucsc.edu
Office: 209 Oakes

    Research Interests
      Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity,Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media,       feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studies - Colombia and Venezuela, political philsophy       and geography.

Anjali Arondekar
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies
Ph.D., English (University of Pennsylvania)

459.4748
aarondek(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 336

    Research Interests
      South Asian studies, colonial historiography; feminist theories; queer theory; critical race studies; nineteenth century       interdisciplinary studies.

    Selected Publications
      For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming).

      "The Voyage Out: Transacting Sex under Globalization," Feminist Studies, Vol. 33: 2, Summer 2007, 299-311.

      "Entangled Histories," Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Vol. 41:31, August 5, 2006, 3409-3411.

      "Border/Line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters outside the U.S.," Interventions: International Journal       of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 7 (2): 2005, 235-249.

      "Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive," Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 14: 1-2, Winter/Spring       2005, 10-27.

      "Geopolitics Alert!" GLQ, 10(2), 2004, 236-40.

      Guest Co-Editor with Cannon Schmitt and Nancy Henry, "Victorian Investments," Special Issue, Victorian Studies, Vol.       15:1, Autumn 2003.

      "Lingering Pleasures, Perverted Texts: Reading Colonial Desire in Kipling's Anglo-India Fiction," in Richard Ruppel,       ed., Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003,       pp. 65-89.

      "Too Fatally Present: The Crisis of Anglo-Indian Literature," Colby Quarterly, Volume 37:2, June 2001, 145-163.

Bettina Apthekar
Professor, Feminist Studies
Ph.D., History of Consciousness (University of California, Santa Cruz)

459.2116
bettinaf(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 340

    Research Interests
      Women's history, feminist oral history and memoir, feminist pedagogy, African American women's history, queer       studies, feminist Jewish studies, feminist critical race studies.

    Selected Publications
      Intimate Politics: Autobiography As Witness, in press, Spring 2006.

      The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, 1976; second edition, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

      Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Life, Amherst: University of       Massachusetts Press, 1989.

      Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,       1982.

      "Shirley Graham Du Bois," in Notable American Women: A biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century,       Susan Ware, ed., Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004.

Karen Barad
Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Philosophy
Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics (SUNY - Stony Brook)

459.3101
kbarad(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 330

    Research Interests
      Feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics,       cultural studies of science, feminist science studies.

    Selected Publications
      Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Durham, NC: Duke       University Press, forthcoming March 2007.

      "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter," in Signs: Journal of Women       in Culture and Society, vol. 28, no. 3, Spring 2003.

      "Re(con)figuring Space, Time, and Matter," in Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, edited by       Marianne DeKoven. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

      "Performing Culture / Performing Nature: Using the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer       Between Science Studies and Queer Theories," in Digital Anatomies, edited by Christina Lammar, Vienna: Turia &       Kant, 2001.

      "Scientific Literacy -> Agential Literacy = (Learning + Doing) Science Responsibly," in Feminist Science Studies: A New       Generation, edited by Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel. NY: Routledge Press. (Abridged       version of article published in Doing Culture + Science), 2001.

      "Reconceiving Scientific Literacy as Agential Literacy, or Learning How to Intra-act Responsibly Within the World," in       Doing Culture + Science, edited by Roddy Reid and Sharon Traweek, NY: Routledge Press, 2000.

      "Agential Realism: Feminist Interventions in Understanding Scientific Practices," in The Science Studies Reader, edited       by Mario Biagioli, NY: Routledge Press, 1998.

      "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialization of Reality," in differences: A Journal of Feminist       Cultural Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1998.

      "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction," in Feminism, Science, and       the Philosophy of Science, ed. Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson, Dordecht, Holland: Kluwer Press, 1996.

Gina Dent
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies


459.3424
ginadent(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 244

    Research Interests
      Africana studies, popular culture and social problems, feminist legal theory, postcolonial and critical area studies.

    Selected Publications
      Editor, Black Popular Culture, 1993; New York: New Press, 1999.

      Anchored to the Real: Black Literature in the Wake of Anthropology, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming.

Emily Honig
Professor, Feminist Studies and History
Ph.D., History (Stanford University)

459.3710
ehonig(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 332

    Research Interests
      Gender, sexuality and ethnicity in modern Chinese history, comparative labor history, Chicana history, nationalism       and sexuality in 3rd World, oral history.

    Selected Publications
      "Socialist Sex: The Cultural Revolution Revisited," in Modern China, 29.2, April 2003:153-75.

      "Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards," in Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities, editors       Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

      "Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution," in Barbara Gutwisle and Gail       Henderson, eds., Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work, Households, and Gender, Berkeley: University of California       Press, 2000.

      Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

      Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, with Gail Hershatter, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

      Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,       1986.

Raoul Birnbaum
Professor, Literature


459.4155
rbirnb(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 246

    Research Focus
      Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China

Murray Baumgarten
Professor, Literature


459.2566
dickens(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 335

    Research Focus
      Dickens, Victorian literature and culture, the Bible, translation, modern Jewish writing, the Holocaust.

    Selected Publications
      Understanding Philip Roth with co-author Barbara Gottfried, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 1990.

      Expectations and Endings: Observations on Holocaust Literature Working Papers in Holocaust Studies. Monograph       edited by Professors Jeffrey Gurock and Lucjan Dobroszycki. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. 1989

      City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1982.

      Carlyle: Books & Margins, Santa Cruz, CA: McHenry Library Strouse Carlyle Collection, University of California, Santa       Cruz. 1980.

      Carlyle and His Era. Santa Cruz, CA: McHenry Library Strouse Carlyle Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.       1975

      Belarmino and Apolonio by Ramon Perez de Ayala. Translated from the Spanish with Gabriel Berns. Berkeley:       University of California Press. 1971. (1983 - paperback reprint, University of California press; 1991 - British Paperback       Edition, London, Quartet Books.)

      Edited Books

      Jewish Culture and the Hispanic World: Essays in Memory of Joseph H. Silverman, ed. Samuel G. Armistead and       Mishael M. Caspi in collaboration with Murray Baumgarten and Juan de la Cuesta. Newark, DE: The Royal Academy of       Spain. 2001

      Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination, edited by Murray Baumgarten and H. M. Daleski, New York:       AMS. 1999.

      Editor-in-chief, California Strouse Carlyle Edition, published by the University of California Press, beginning with On       Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, by Thomas Carlyle, introduction and notes by Michael Goldberg, text       established by Michael Goldberg, Joel Brattin, and Mark Engel. An Approved Edition of the Committee on Scholarly       Editions of the Modern Language Association of America. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, introduction and notes       by Rodger Tarr, text established by Mark Engel, (2000). Historical Essays by Thomas Carlyle, ed. Chris R. Vanden       Bossche (2002) 8 volumes projected in all.

Amra Brooks
Lecturer, Literature
M.F.A. (Bard College)

amrairis(at)gmail.edu

    Research Focus
      Contemporary fiction; cross-genre and experimental writing; memoir, contemporary art, art history and criticism;       popular culture.

    Selected Publications
      California, Suspect Thoughts Press (Spring, 2008)

      Selected Readings from Artforum, Artinfo.com, LA Weekly, Index Magazine, zingmagazine, SPIN Magazin, Fort             Necessity, and The Rambler.

Louis Chude-Sokei
Associate Professor, Literature
B.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

459.1924
locsokei(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, 630

    Research Focus
      Modern and contemporary African American literature, Caribbean and West African literatures, post-colonial literature       and theory, modernism, black diaspora, cultural studies, popular culture.

Carla Freccero
Professor, Literature


459.3342
freccero(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, 637

    Research Focus
      Renaissance studies, French and Italian language and literature, early modern European history and literature,       postcolonial theories and literature, contemporary feminist theories and politics, queer theory, pre- and early modern       studies, contemporary fiction by women of color in the U.S., identity politics as political formations.

    Selected Publications
      Queer/Early/Modern, Duke University Press, 2005.

      Popular Culture: An Introduction. NYU Press, 1999.

      Premodern Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1996. Co-edited with Louise Fradenburg.

      Premodern Sexualities in Europe. Co-edited with Louise Fradenburg. Special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and       Gay Studies, vol. 1:4, 1995.

      Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Pascale Gaitet
Professor, Literature


459.2322
pascale(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 629

    Research Focus
      Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature, sociolinguistics, political history, Celine, Genet.

Jody Greene
Associate Professor, Literature


459.5457
jgreene(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 635

    Research Focus
      History of the book and of authorship, theories of the literary, Derrida, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British       and French literature and culture, pre- and early modern studies, early modern colonialisms, gay and lesbian cultural       studies, gender studies.

    Selected Publications
      The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730. Philadelphia: University of       Pennsylvania Press.

      Derrida's Eighteenth Century, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies in honor of the work of Jacques Derrida.       "ECS 40.3.

      In Memoriam, a special issue of GLQ in honor of Alan Bray. GLQ 10.3.

      "Ego non sum ego: John Dunton and the Consolations of Print," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.       forthcoming.

     "Autobiography and Print," PMLA 121.1.

      "Public Secrets: Sodomy and the Pillory in the Eighteenth Century, and Beyond," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and       Interpretation. 44.2-3.

      "'You Must Eat Men': The Sodomitic Economy of Renaissance Patronage," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies,       1.2. Reprinted in Shakespeare and Gender, ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen (New York: Garland Publishing,       1999).

      "New Historicism and Its New World Discoveries," Yale Journal of Criticism, 4.2.

      "Perversions of Sappho," in Love, Sex, Friendship and Intimacy Between Men, 1550-1800, ed. Katherine O'Donnell and       Michael O'Rourke (London: Palgrave/Macmillan)

      "Arbitrary Tastes and Commonsense Pleasures," in Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its Influences, ed.       Patsy Fowler and Alan Jackson (New York: AMS Press).

      Entries for Hannah Snell, Mary Collyer, Charlotte Forman, Mary Hearne, Elizabeth Thomas, Sara Paretsky, Joan Nestle,       Andrew Dworkin, Lillian Faderman, and Radclyffe Hall, Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed. Lorna Sage       (Cambridge University Press).

John Jordan
Professor, Literature


459.2704
picasso(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 333

    Research Focus
      Dickens, Victorian literature and culture, the English novel, literature of South Africa, narrative theory.

Nathaniel E. Mackey
Professor, Literature
Ph.D. (Stanford University)

459.2051
mackey(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 628

    Research Focus
      Twentieth-century American literature, Afro-American literature, creative writing.

    Selected Publications
      Four for Trane, Los Angeles, CA: Golemics (1978).

      Septet for the End of Time, Santa Cruz, CA: Boneset (1983).

      Outlantish, Tucson, AZ: Chax Press (1992).

      Song of the Andoumboutou: 18-20, Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts Press (1994).

      Four for Glenn, Tucson, AZ: Chax Press (2002).

      Eroding Witness, Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press (1985).

      School of Udhra, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books (1993).

      Whatsaid Serif, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books (1998).

      Splay Anthem, New Directions (2006)., 2006 National Book Award Winner

      Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, Musical accompaniment: Royal Hartigan, percussion; Hafez Modirzadeh,       reeds and flutes, Memphis: Spoken Engine Company (1995).

      Bedouin Hornbook, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume vol., Callaloo Fiction Series (1986), second ed. Sun &       Moon Press (1997).

      Djbot Baghostus's Run, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume vol., Sun & Moon Press (1993).

      Atet A.D., From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume vol., City Lights Books (2001).

      Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Cambridge University Press (1993),       paper ed. University of Alabama Press (2000).

Helene Moglen
Professor, Literature and Feminist Studies


459.4146
moglen(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 331

    Research Focus
      The English novel; feminist, critical, cultural, and psychoanalytic theory; gender and genre in social and psychological       contexts.

    Selected Publications
      The Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

      Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, co-editors Elizabeth Abel and Barbara Christian,       Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

      The Rights of Literacy, co-editors Andrea Lunsford and James Slevin, Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

      The Future of Doctoral Studies in English, co-editors Andrea Lunsford and James Slevin, New York: Modern Language       Association of America, 1989.

      Charlotte Bronte, the Self Conceived, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1976; Norton Library, Spring 1978;       University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

      The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1975.

      Sexual and Gender Harassment in the Academy: A Guide for Faculty, Students and Administrators, with Phyllis       Franklin, Phyllis Zatlin-Boring, Ruth Angress, New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1981.

Loisa Nygaard
Associate Professor, Literature


459.2842
nygaard(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 627

    Research Focus
      Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; romanticism; aesthetics and politics of landscape; military       theory.

Micah Perks
Associate Professor, Literature


459.4586
meperks(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 233

    Research Focus
      Reading and writing contemporary fiction, memoir, historical fiction; gender, literature and culture; alternative       communities.

    Selected Publications
      We Are Gathered Here, St. Martin's Press (1997).

      Pagan Time: An American Childhood, Counterpoint (2001).

      "Quiero Bailar Slow With You Tonight", ZYZZYVA, #70; Spring 2004.

      "We Are the Same People", The Massachusetts Review Vol. 44, Issue 4; Winter 2003.

Juan Poblete
Associate Professor, Literature


459.5734
jpoblete(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 530

    Research Focus
      Latin(o) American literatures; transnational/global cultures (literature, radio, film); Latin(o) American cultural studies;       19th-century studies; the history of reading practices.

    Selected Publications
      "Culture, Neoliberalism and Citizen Communication: the Case of Radio Tierra in Chile", Global Media and       Communication, 2:3, pp.315-333 (2006)

      "Globalización y producción de conocimientos: hacia una reconfiguración geocultural," in Sonia Baez Hernández,       Anadeli Bencomo and Marc Zimmerman, eds. Ir/venir: Migraciones transnacionales y procesos culturales entre       América Latina y el norte, Santiago: Bravo y Allende Editores. (2006)

      "Literatura, heterogeneidad y migrancia trasnacional", Nueva Sociedad, 201, pp.90-105. (2006)

      Editor, Cambio cultural y lectura de periódicos en el siglo XIX. (Cultural Change and the Reading of Periodicals in       Nineteenth Century Latin America). A Special issue of Revista Iberoamericana, 214, January-March. (2006)

      Editor with an Introduction of an interdisciplinary dossier on "Latin American and Latino Studies," Latino Studies, 4,       1-2, Spring/Summer. (2006)

Richard Terdiman
Professor, Literature


459.2030
dick(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 642

    Research Focus
      Nineteenth- and 20th-century French and European literature and culture, literary and cultural theory, contemporary       critical theory, cultural globalization.

Karen Tei Yamashita
Associate Professor, Literature


459.2167
ktyamash(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Humanities 1, room 231

    Research Focus
      History and anthropology of Japanese immigration to Brazil, Asian American literature, modern fiction, playwriting.

    Selected Publications
      Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Coffee House Press (September 1990).

      Brazil-Maru: A Novel, Coffee House Press (September 1993).

      Tropic of Orange, Coffee House Press (September 1997).

      Circle K Cycles, Coffee House Press (April 2001).

Robert Meister
Professor, Politics
Ph.D. (Harvard University)

459.4563
meister(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 228

    Research Focus
      Professor Meister’s political thought concerns the moral relations between the beneficiaries of social and political       injustice and its victims. His current book project, a critique of the late-twentieth century discourse of human rights,       weaves together topics ranging from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Dante’s Purgatorio,       from Reconstruction era American legal thought to the Nuremberg Trials, and from post-genocide Rwandan politics to       psychoanalytic accounts of trauma. His previous publications have engaged Marxist analysis, the politics of       recognition, political theology, US (and comparative) constitutional law, and legal theory.

    Selected Publications
      "Forgiving and Forgetting: Lincoln and the Politics of National Recovery." In Human Rights in Political Transitions, C.       Hesse and R. C. Post (eds.). New York: Zone Press, 1999.

      "Beyond Satisfaction-Desire, Consumption, and the Future of Socialism," Topoi, 15, 2, September 1996.

      "Sojourners and Survivors-Two Logics of Constitutional Protection," Studies in American Poltitical Development, 9, 2,       Fall 1995.

      "Is Moderation a Virtue?" In Virtue, Love, and Form, T. Irwin and M. Nussbaum (eds.), Apeiron, 26, 3-4, 1993.

      Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

      "The Logic and Legacy of Dred Scott: Marshall, Taney, and the Sublimation of Republican Thought," Studies in       American Political Development, 3, 1989.

      "Vigilante Action Against Pornography: The Symbolic Destruction of Symbols," Social Text, 12, Fall 1985.

      "Discrimination Law Through the Looking Glass," Wisconsin Law Review, no. 4, 1985.

Danny Scheie
Professor, Theatre Arts
B.A. (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Ph.D., M.A. (University of California, Berkeley)

459.4406
dscheie(at)ucsc.edu

    Research Interests
      Acting, Directing, Shakespeare, Queer Theater, Wagner, Musicals, The Pixar Feature.

Elizabeth Abrams
Lecturer, Writing


459.4188
esabrams(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 214

B.K. Faunce
Lecturer, Writing


459.4504
bkfaunce(at)earthlink.net
Office: Kresge 218

Farnaz Fatemi
Lecturer, Writing


459.4504
ffatemi(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 218

Roxanne Hamilton
Lecturer, Writing


459.5195
hamilton(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Kresge 204

Brij Lunine
Lecturer, Writing


459.1967
brij43(at)ucsc.edu
Office: Stevenson 268