# Literature

**Source**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/faculty/LIT.html
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/front/courses.html

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*All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.*

#### Professors

Mohammad Kazim Ali, MFA, *Creative Writing*

John D. Blanco, PhD, *Literatures of the Americas*

Gloria E. Chacon, PhD, *Indigenous Literatures of the Americas*

Alain J.-J. Cohen, PhD, *Comparative Literature and Film Studies*

Cristina Della Coletta, PhD, *Italian Literature; Dean, School of Arts and Humanities*

Amelia Glaser, PhD, *Slavic and Comparative Literature*

Lily Hoàng, MFA, *Literature, Creative Writing*

Sara E. Johnson, PhD, *Comparative Literature*

Lisa Lampert-Weissig, PhD, *English and Comparative Medieval Studies*

Ping-hui Liao, PhD, *Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies*

Daisuke Miyao, PhD, *Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature*

Shelley Streeby, PhD, *American Literature*

Daniel J. Vitkus, PhD, *Rebeca Hickel Chair in Early Modern Literature*

Oumelbanine Zhiri, PhD, *French Literature*

Ping Zhu, PhD, *Transnational Chinese/Sinophone Literary, Film, and Media Studies*

#### Teaching Professor

Jaclyn Jemc, MFA, *Creative Writing*

#### Associate Professors

Amy Sara Carroll, PhD, *Literature, Creative Writing*

Dennis Childs, PhD, *African American Literature and Culture*

Ben Doller, MFA, *Creative Writing, Poetry, and Poetics*

Camille Forbes, PhD, *Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture*

Edward Kelting, PhD, *Mediterranean Studies, Latin Literature*

Joo Ok Kim, PhD, *English Literature*

Jin-Kyung Lee, PhD, *Comparative Asian Literature and Culture*

Luis Martín-Cabrera, PhD, *Spanish Peninsular and Latin American Literature*

Ainsley Morse, PhD, *Slavic Literature, Translation Studies, Creative Writing*

Jacobo Myerston, PhD, *Classics and Comparative Literature*

Hoang Nguyen, PhD, *Literature, Cultural Studies*

Babak Rahimi, PhD, *Islamic and Religious Studies*

Brandon Som, PhD, *Literature, Creative Writing*

Anna Joy Springer, MFA, *Creative Writing and Literary Arts*

Erin Suzuki, PhD, *Asian American and Pacific Island Literatures*

Ameeth Vijay, PhD, *Modern and Contemporary Global Literatures in English*

Kathryn Walkiewicz, PhD, *Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures of the United States*

Megan E. Wesling, PhD, *US Literatures*

#### Associate Teaching Professors

Ryan Bessett, PhD, *Spanish Language and Literature*

Géraldine Fiss, PhD, *East Asian Literature*

#### Assistant Professors

Carol Arcos Herrera, PhD, *Latin American Culture, Gender, and Sexualities Studies*

Gabriel Bámgbóṣé, PhD, *African and Comparative Literature*

Amanda Batarseh, PhD, *Arabic and Comparative Literature*

José Carvajal Regidor, PhD, *Spanish and Comparative Literature*

Amrita Dhar, PhD, *Early Modern Literature*

Eve Eure, PhD, *English Literature, Black and Indigenous Studies*

Devin Garofalo, PhD, *Nineteenth-Century English Literature*

Casandra Lopez, MFA, *Creative Writing\*

Lillian Lu, PhD, *English Literature and Cultural Studies*

Andrea Mendoza, PhD, *Japanese and Comparative Literature*

Silpa Mukherjee, PhD, *Film and Media, Global South, and Cultural Studies*

Ariana Ruíz, PhD, *Chicanx Studies*

Jorge Sánchez Cruz, PhD, *Latin American Literature and Culture*

Nadia Villafuerte, PhD, *Central American, Mexican, and Latinx Literature and Culture, Creative Writing*

Marco Wilkinson, MFA, *Creative Writing*

#### Professors Emeriti

Rae Armantrout, MA

Ronald S. Berman, PhD

Robert Cancel, PhD

Steven Cassedy, PhD

Jaime Concha, PhD

Charles R. Cooper, PhD

Stephen D. Cox, PhD

R. Michael Davidson, PhD

Abraham J. Dijkstra, PhD

Page duBois, PhD

Anthony Edwards, PhD

Margit Frenk, PhD

Richard Elliot Friedman, ThD

Marcel Hénaff, PhD

Fanny Q. Howe

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, PhD

Stephanie H. Jed, PhD

Susan Kirkpatrick, PhD

Todd C. Kontje, PhD

Seth Lerer, PhD

Lisa M. Lowe, PhD

James K. Lyon, PhD

Jorge Mariscal, PhD

Louis Adrian Montrose, PhD

Eileen Myles, BA

Roy Harvey Pearce, PhD

Roddey Reid, PhD

Jerome D. Rothenberg, MA

Rosaura Sánchez, PhD

Kathryn Shevelow, PhD

William S. Tay, PhD

Nicole Tonkovich, PhD

Quincy Troupe

Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD

Donald T. Wesling, PhD

Wai-lim Yip, PhD

#### Associate Professors Emeriti

Jack Behar, PhD

Richard S. Cohen, PhD

David K. Crowne, PhD

Thomas K. Dunseath, PhD

Milos Kokotovic, PhD

Margaret Loose, PhD

William A. O’Brien, PhD

Max Parra, PhD

Marta E. Sánchez, PhD

Cynthia Walk, PhD

Don Edward Wayne, PhD

Winifred Woodhull, PhD

#### Lecturers

Adriana de Marchi-Gherini, PhD, *Italian Language and Literature*

Eva Fischer-Grunski, *German Language*

Jeyseon Lee, PhD, *Korean Language*

Kourtney Murray, PhD, *Ancient Greek and Latin Languages, Classical and Mediterranean Studies*

Catherine Ploye, PhD, *French Language and Literature*

Rebecca Wells, CPhil, *Russian Language and Literature*