Tiffany Ana López, Associate Professor
Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara

(951) 827-1929
tiffany.lopez@ucr.edu

Tiffany Ana López is Associate Professor in the Department of English where she teaches courses on Latina/o literature and cultural studies. Among her accomplishments, Dr. López is a high school drop out and community college transfer student who earned her Bachelor’s degree from the California State University at Sacramento and her Ph.D from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She completed her dissertation while under fellowship at Dartmouth College where she held the distinction of being their first Cesar Chavez Dissertation Fellow. She has been faculty at UCR since 1995 where, for over the past decade, she has developed new courses in American literature that include such topics as: Chicana/o children’s literature; Chicana/o autobiography and social protest; trauma narratives in Latina/o literature; African American and Latina/o prison narratives; discourses of violence in drama and performance; and the evolution of Chicana feminist theory and literature. Dr. López's research and teaching focus largely on writing as a social document that expands and enriches thinking about the relationship between the self and culture. She is editor of the collection Growing Up Chicana/o (William Morrow & Co.), author of the forthcoming scholarly volume The Alchemy of Blood: Violence as Critical Discourse in U.S. Latina/o Writing (Duke University Press), and coeditor of Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. In 2004, Dr. López was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain for her work on violence in Latina/o literature. Among her professional involvements, she is founding president of the Latina/o Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association and a consulting writer for the Mark Taper Forum’s educational outreach program, Performing for Los Angeles Youth (P.L.A.Y.). Dr. López is also an active participating faculty member in UCR’s prestigious Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CHASS) First Year Experience Program. As part of her work in the Department of English, Dr. López has also chaired numerous MA and PhD exams, directed many PhDs into faculty positions, and ushered well over two-dozen UCR undergraduates into advanced degree programs.