Core Faculty
Name | Title/Interest | |
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Elizabeth Allen | Ph.D. University of Michigan Professor of English Interests: Middle English Literature and Reception, Medieval Literature, Exemplary and Didactic Literature, Law and Narrative Published Books | eallen@uci.edu |
Luis Avil�s | Ph.D. Brown University Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Interests: Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Literature, Literary Theory Published Books | laviles@uci.edu |
Alice Berghof | Ph.D. UCI Lecturer, Humanities Core Course Interests: Milton, Shakespeare, Augustine, Women Lyric Poets, Women and Science, History of Grammar, Art History | aberghof@uci.edu |
Sharon Block | Ph.D. Princeton University Professor of History Interests: Early American Social and Economic History, Digital Humanities, Race & Sexuality Published Books | sblock@uci.edu |
James T. Chiampi | Ph.D. Yale University; Professor of Italian Interests: Dante, Renaissance Epic and Pastoral, Modern Italian Novel, Italian Language Published Books | jtchiamp@uci.edu |
Touraj Daryaee | Howard C. Baskerville Professor of History in Iran and the Persionate World; Associate Director, Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture. Ph.D. UCLA Interests: Ancient History, Late Antiquity, Persianate World, Zoroast Published Books | tdaryaee@uci.edu |
Rebecca Davis | Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor, Department of English Old and Middle English literature; Piers Plowman; medieval religious culture; women's writing; medieval philosophy; nature and animals in literature. Interests: Nationalism and National Identities, Nationalism and National Identities Published Books | radavis@uci.edu |
Peter Frei | Assistant Professor of French Interests: Early Modern and Modern French Literature, Renaissance Culture, The Body and its Representations, The Politics of Literature Faculty Website Published Books | |
Michael Fuller | Ph.D. Yale University; Associate Professor of Chinese Interests: Classical Chinese Poetry and Poetics, The Cultural and Intellectual Contexts for Poetry, Aesthetic Theory, Linguistic issues in Classical Chinese Published Books | mafuller@uci.edu |
Zina Giannopoulou | PH.D. University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Classics Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy, esp. Plato, Reception of Classical Antiquity in Modern and Contemp. Prose Literature, Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy Published Books | zgiannop@uci.edu |
James B. Given | Professor Emeritus Published Books | jbgiven@uci.edu |
Sean Greenberg | Associate Professor of Philosophy | greenbes@uci.edu |
Daniel M. Gross | Associate Professor of English Interests: History and Theory of Rhetoric, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Heidegger and Rhetoric Published Books | dgross@uci.edu |
Rebeca Helfer | Ph.D. Columbia University Associate Professor of English Interests: Renaissance Literature, especially Spenser, History of Memory Published Books | rhelfer@uci.edu |
Ivette N. Hernández-Torres | Ph.D Brown University Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Interests: Colonial Latin America and Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Culture Published Books | ivetteh@uci.edu |
Lamar M. Hill | Ph.D. University of London Professor of History Interests: Tudor-Stuart England, Early Modern Europe | lmhill@uci.edu |
Susan Jarratt | Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature Interests: Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Women and Gender in the History of Rhetoric Published Books | sjarratt@uci.edu |
Joseph Jenkins | Ph.D. UCLA; JD Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education Interests: English Legal History, Focusing on Inheritance Law and Royal Prerogative Jurisdictions Faculty Website | j.jenkins@uci.edu |
Andromache Karanika | Ph.D. Princeton University Assistant Professor of Classics Interests: Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry, Women in Antiquity, Oral Tradition and Folklore, Ancient Greek Religion Published Books | karanika@uci.edu |
Susan B. Klein | Ph.D. Cornell University Director of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Japanese Interests: Premodern and Modern Theater and Dance, Medieval Commentaries, Japanses Religions, New Historicism and Feminist Critical Theory Published Books | sbklein@uci.edu |
Jayne Lewis | Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of English Interests: Restoration/Eighteenth Century British Literature, Natural Philosophy and the Supernatural, Early Modern Meteorology, Historical Fiction Published Books | jelewis@uci.edu |
Christophe Litwin | Assistant Professor of French. Christophe Litwin joins us from Princeton University where he was a Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Interests: Early Modern French Literature and Culture Faculty Website | |
Julia R. Lupton | Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Humanities and the Public Sphere Published Books | jrlupton@uci.edu |
Lyle Massey | Director, Center for Early Cultures and Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies Interests: European Renaissance and early modern art , Art and Science, Gender Studies Published Books | lmassey@uci.edu |
Nancy McLoughlin | Assistant Professor of History Interests: Late Medieval Intellectual and Gender History Published Books | nmclough@uci.edu |
Margaret M. Miles | Ph.D. Princeton University Professor Emerita of Art History Interests: Greek and Roman Art, Architecture and Archaeology Published Books | mmmiles@uci.edu |
Laura Mitchell | Ph.D., UCLA Assistant Professor of History Interests: African and Southern African History, Colonialism, Environment, Labor and Slavery, Families and Household Formation Published Books | mitchell@uci.edu |
Ian Munro | Ph.D. Harvard University Associate Professor, Department of Drama, Bren School of the Arts Interests: Shakespeare, Early Modern Theater and culture Faculty Website | |
Jane O. Newman | Ph.D. Princeton University; Professor of Comparative Literature Interests: Comparative Renaissance and Baroque Literary and Cultural Studies, Walter Benjamin and the Baroque, History and Theories of Comparative Literature, Afterlives of the Greeks Published Books | jonewman@uci.edu |
Rachel O'Toole | Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Assistant Professor of History Interests: Colonial Latin America, Indigenous Histories, Andrean Society, African Diaspora Published Books | rotoole@uci.edu |
Kevin Olson | Associate Professor, Political Science Interests: Contemporary Political Theory, Insurgent and Popular Politics, Citizenship, Social Democracy, Cultural Politics, Poststructuralism, Critical Theory, 19th and 20th Century Political Theory | kvein.olson@uci.edu |
Maria Pantelia | Ph.D. Ohio State University, Department Chair and Professor of Classics and Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® Interests: Greek Epic Poetry, Hellenistic Poetry, Computer Applications to Classics Published Books | mcpantel@uci.edu |
Renee Raphael | Assistant Professor of History Interests: Early Modern History of Science, Early Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, History of the Book and its Readers, Social and Visual Culture Faculty Website Published Books | renee.raphael@uci.edu |
Bryan Reynolds | Ph.D. Harvard University Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies in Drama, Bren School of the Arts Interests: Shakespeare, Early Modern Theater and culture, Transversal Poetics Faculty Website | breynold@uci.edu |
Deanna Shemek Pronouns: she/her/hers | Professor, European Studies and Languages Faculty Website Published Books | dshemek@uci.edu |
Victoria Silver | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Associate Professor of English Interests: Renaissance Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Criticism, History of Literary Theory, Histories and Theories of Rhetoric | vasilver@uci.edu |
James Steintrager | Ph.D. Columbia University Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Interests: Eighteenth-Century English, French and German Literature and Aesthetics, Amatory, Erotic and Libertine Fiction Published Books | jsteintr@uci.edu |
Keith Topper | Associate Professor, Political Science Interests: History of Political Thought and Political Theory, American Political Thought, Contemporary Political and Social Theory, Democratic Theory, The Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Theories of Power | ktopper@uci.edu |
Andrew Zissos | Assistant Professor of Classics PhD Princeton University Interests: Roman Literature and Culture, Classical Reception, Latin Epic Published Books | pzissos@uci.edu |