| Name | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|
| Zanny Allport | aallp001@ucr.edu | 19th-20th Century American Literature, Material and Labor History, Theory and Critiques of Historicism, Black and Atlantic Radical Tradition, Queer & Feminist Theory |
| Gabriela Almendarez | galme002@ucr.edu | 20th-century American literature, Latino/a and Chicano/a Literature, Queer studies, hybridity, border studies |
| Stina Attebery | satte001@ucr.edu | Biopolitics, Indigenous Studies, Media and Technoculture |
| Allie Arend | allie.arend@email.ucr.edu | |
| Jose Arellano | jose.arellano@email.ucr.edu | The critical study of the U.S. as an early republic and its empire-building efforts; critical ethnic studies; Latinx studies (19th-century Mexican-American literary history and culture); Indigenous studies. |
| Angelica Maria Barraza | angelica.barraza@email.ucr.edu | Contemporary Race-Critical Innovative Poetry, 20 & 21st Century Poetry, Queer Theory, Xicana & Border Studies, Avant Garde |
| Aaron Brown | aaron.brown@email.ucr.edu | |
| Paris Brown | pbrow003@ucr.edu | Mid-20th-Century American Literature, Film Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Fashion Studies |
| Sarah Buckner | sarah.buckner@email.ucr.edu | |
| Miranda Butler | mbutl003@ucr.edu | 19th-Century British Literature, Victorian Studies, Literature and Science, Science Fiction |
| Brittany Carlson | brittany.carlson@email.ucr.edu | Victorian literature, British modernism, History and Cultures of Mathematics and Science, Science Studies |
| Nancy Carranza | ncarr007@ucr.edu | 20th and 21st century Asian American literature, postcolonial theory and neocolonialism/neoliberalism, inter- and multi-racial dynamics, narrative theory & spatial theory |
| Brandy J Lewis | brandy.lewis@email.ucr.edu | Animal studies, speculative fiction, cultural and media studies. |
| Misha Choudhry | misha.choudhry@email.ucr.edu | Postcolonial studies, Race and Islam, Contemporary American literature, Cultural Studies, Visual and Media Studies |
| Nicholas B. Clark | nicholas.clark003@ucr.edu | Speculative Fiction, Cognitive Narratology and Poetics, Philosophy of Evolution and Paleontology, Monstrosity, American Literature. |
| Jonathan Donabo | jonathan.donabo@ucr.edu | |
| Evan Duncan | evan.duncan@email.ucr.edu | |
| Tara Dybas | tara.dybas@email.ucr.edu | Corpses, Gender, Religious Culture, and the Supernatural in Early Modern Drama. |
| Kirstoffer S. Ekroll | kristoffer.ekroll@email.ucr.edu | Trans representation in gothic and horror stories. Architectural spaces in gothic and horror stories especially haunted castles and houses. |
| Jeshua Enriquez | jenri006@ucr.edu | Science Fiction, 20th Century American Lit, Postmodernism, Cultural Studies |
| Leslie Fernandez | lfern010@ucr.edu | Asian-American Literature, Science-Fiction, Postcolonial Theory and Posthumanism |
| Nicole K. Furtado | nicole.furtado@email.ucr.edu | |
| Mariam Galarrita | mgala007@ucr.edu | 16th and 17th Century English Literature | Premodern Critical Race Studies | Anglo-Asian Contact | Techno-Orientalism |
| Ian Galbraith | igalb001@ucr.edu | Digital and Technocultures, Video Game Studies, Visual and Media Cultures |
| Nolan Goetzinger | nolan.goetzinger@email.ucr.edu | Postcolonialism, Environmental Humanities, Irish Studies, Indigenous Studies |
| Jekara N. Govan | jekara.govan@email.ucr.edu | Black Queer Cultural Production, Afrolatinx Studies, Performance Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Sound Studies, Speculative Enactment, Black Ecologies of Death, Black Ecologies of Care |
| Mackenzie Gregg | mgreg003@ucr.edu | Victorian Literature and Culture, Queer and Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis |
| Kin Fai Hao | kinfai.hao@email.ucr.edu | British Romanticism, Gothic Literature, Affect Studies, Philosophy and Literature, Marxism |
| Lauren Hammond | lauren.hammond@email.ucr.edu | Digital Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural and Sub-Cultural Studies, Critical Race Studies |
| Graham Hall | Interiority and Exteriority, Class and Space, Race/Gender/Sexuality | |
| Kathy Hardun | katherine.hardun@email.ucr.edu | Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Sexuality, Queer Theory |
| Celeste Jackson | celeste.jackson@email.ucr.edu | Indigenous Poetry, Gender and Sexuality and Eco-Criticism |
| Robyn Johnson | robyn.johnson@email.ucr.edu | Native American narratives, postmodern Native American literature, early American, manga, popular culture, young adult fiction, European folklore, Asian folklore, Shakespeare, domestic dramas |
| Amy D. Juarez | amy.juarez@email.ucr.edu | |
| Chelsea E. Keane | chelsea.keane@email.ucr.edu | Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Gender |
| Rudi Kraeher | rkrae001@ucr.edu | Film and Visual Culture, 20th and 21st century US American and Latin American Literature |
| Brandy J Lewis | brandy.lewis@email.ucr.edu | Critical Posthumanities, Human-Animal Theory, Ecofeminist Belongings, and Queer and Sexual Identities. |
| Sarah Line | sarah.line@email.ucr.edu | |
| Hannah Manshel | hannah.manshel@email.ucr.edu | American literature before 1900, African-American Literature, Legal studies |
| Jasmine A. Moore | jasmine.moore001@email.ucr.edu | African-American Literature, Afrofuturism, Afrodiaspora, Postcolonialism, Speculative Fiction |
| Emily Mulvihill | emily.mulvihill@email.ucr.edu | |
| Aran Park | aran.park@email.ucr.edu | Nineteenth-century British Poetry and Culture |
| Heejoo Park | heejoo.park@email.ucr.edu | 20th & 21st Century American Literature, Asian American Literature, Latina/o Literature |
| Grant Palmer | gpalm002@ucr.edu | Memory and Publics |
| Joshua J. Prindle | joshua.prindle@email.ucr.edu | 19th Century Literature, Victorian Studies, Medicine and Culture, Disability Studies |
| Kayleigh Quarterman | kquar001@ucr.edu | Late 19th-20th Century Anglophone Literature; Poetics; Modernism; Postmodernism; Queer Studies/Literature; Black Studies/Literature; Modern Art History |
| Christopher Queen | cquee001@ucr.edu | Late Medieval English Literature, Queer Theory, Visual Culture, Materiality, Medievalism, Textual and Editorial Criticism |
| Lisa Ramapuram | lisa.ramapuram@email.ucr.edu | |
| Amanda L. Riggle | amanda.riggle@email.ucr.edu | Early Modern English Drama, Modernity, Marxism, Feminist, Poststructuralism |
| Rusty Rust | rusty.rust@email.ucr.edu | |
| Kameron Sanzo | ksanz001@ucr.edu | Victorian Studies, Science and Technologies Studies, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Science, Energy Humanities, Classical Energy Physics |
| Courtney Naum Scuro | courtney.scuro@email.ucr.edu | Early Modern Literature, Time, Theories of History, Material Print Culture, Queer Studies, Shakespeare in Performance |
| Chelsea Rae Silva | csilv008@ucr.edu | Medical humanities; Middle English literature; Manuscript studies; Disability studies. |
| Kali Simmons | ksimm006@ucr.edu | Indigenous Feminisms, Genre Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Theories of Monstrosity and Spectrality |
| Samarth Singhal | samath.singhal@ucr.edu | Intermediality, Picturebooks, Detective Fiction, Cartooning, Book Illustration, Children's Fiction |
| David Siglos | david.siglos@email.ucr.edu | Asian American Literature, Filipino American Literature, Asian American Theater and Performance, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Kristen-Skjonsby | kristen.skjonsby@email.ucr.edu | |
| Miranda Steege | miranda.steege@email.ucr.edu | Queer Theory, Victorian Studies, Fan Studies |
| Summer C. Sutton | summer.sutton@email.ucr.edu | Posthumanism, Science Fiction, Feminist Science Studies, Critical Race Studies, Indigenous Studies |
| Stefan Torralba | stefan.torralba@email.ucr.edu | Digital media studies, cinema studies, critical race, queer of color theory, Asian American studies |
| Felix Vargas | felix.vargas@email.ucr.edu | |
| Preston Waltrip | preston.waltrip@email.ucr.edu | 21st century historical fiction, U.S. Latina/o studies, hemispheric American studies, biopolitical theory. |
| Leah Washburn | leah.washburn@email.ucr.edu | Gender studies, Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies |
| Sang-Keun Yoo | syoo015@ucr.edu | 20th century American Science Fiction, Asian American Literature, Postcolonialism, Posthumanism, Korean Studies |
| Gnei Soraya Zarook | gzaro001@ucr.edu | Sri Lankan / South Asian Anglophone literature, Sri Lankan / South Asian North American literature, the Sri Lankan civil war, trauma studies, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, Trauma studies Research Interests My interests lie at the intersection of language, trauma, and otherness. I’m currently interested in examining how South Asian American / Anglophone literature depicts life lived within and around trauma. Specifically, I look at how these depictions illustrate trauma as operating differently from its theorizations by traditional, Western-oriented trauma studies. By examining how Sri Lankan Anglophone literature depicts the negotiation of the trauma of both human-created and natural disasters, I trace how representations of trauma by Sri Lankan authors push against trauma studies as it is understood and practiced within its Euro-American theorizations. I am invested in abiding by the ways in which the literary, the ‘real,’ and the clinical intersect to muddy our understanding of what forms of knowledge and practice are accepted and privileged in responding ethically to violence. My work pushes me to think about what it means to consistently read a body of literature that depicts trauma, and about how this literature is one of the few ways in which the object of Sri Lanka and its people become legible to the world. Thus, while I suggest that Sri Lankan Anglophone literature depicts trauma in ways unaccounted for in Western trauma theory, I also insist on thinking through the ways in which this literature also depicts happiness, pleasure, and joy as sitting alongside trauma. Recent Activity “In front of us the way is seen, but behind us the road is gone”: Counter-Moments to Trauma in Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts and Jean Arasanayagam’s “All is Burning.” Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Society’s Annual Conference. University of California, Los Angeles, March 2018. “‘I try to explain love in shillings’: Harboring Love and Remittances in Shailja Patel’s Migritude.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2017. “The Global South Speaks Back: Queering Love and Remittances in Shailja Patel’s Migritude.” The Deep South in the Global South Conference. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, April 2017 “Killing Theory: A Defiance of Trauma Theory in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors.” (E)racing Theory, (En)gendering Praxis Conference. University of California, Irvine, March 2017. “Humanity for Robots: A Guide to Passing as a Person.” Paper co-presented with Ande Murphy at the 30th Annual California State University Student Research Competition. California State University Bakersfield, April 2016. Co-Founder, Explosions and Survival Reading Group at UC Riverside, (2017-present) President, Graduate Students in English Association at UC Riverside (2017-2018) Co-Chair, (Dis)junctions Graduate Conference at UC Riverside (2017-2018) Representative, Graduate Student English Association at UC Riverside (2016-2017) Co-Founder, Asian American / Anglophone Literature Reading Group at UC Riverside (2016-2017) Co-Chair, “The Inadequate Human: A Mini Symposium on Gender, Disability, and Robots” at California State University Channel Islands (2015) |
| Students on Leave | ||
| Aaron Roberts | arobe012@ucr.edu | Biopolitics, Colonialism/Postcolonialism |
| Daniel Valencia | dvale007@ucr.edu | Science Fiction, Chicano Literature and Culture, Media Studies |
| José Alfaro | jalfa011@ucr.edu | Trans-temporal, Transamerican Literature; Queer Latinidades; Dance and Performance |
| Eric Atkinson | eatki004@ucr.edu | African American Literature, Griot Studies, Comic books, SF, and Young Adult Fiction |
| Jennifer Avila | javil013@ucr.edu | Sports Studies, U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/o Literature, 20th-century American Literature |
| Lisa Brown Jaloza | lbrow008@ucr.edu | 20th-Century–Contemporary American Literature, Scottish Literature, Media Studies |
| Cyra Emery | cemer002@ucr.edu | Early Modern Literature, History of Medicine, History of Science, Rhetoric |
| Jennie Friedrich | jfrie005@ucr.edu | Manuscript Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Medieval Travel Literature |
| Laura Fussell | lfuss001@ucr.edu | Native American Studies; Trauma Studies; Indigenous Studies; 20th- and 21st- Century American Literature, Film, and Culture |
| Morgann Havig | mhavi001@ucr.edu | Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare Studies; Restoration Literature; Disability Studies |
| Tracy Zuniga | tzuni001@ucr.edu | Visual Art and Media Studies, Chicana/o Cultural Studies, 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature |
| Ryan D. Sullivan | rsull001@ucr.edu | American Poetry and Poetics, Lyric Theory, Queer Theory, Queer Pedagogy |
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