On Leave 2025-27
Critical Theory Advisory Committee
Critical Theory Advisory Committee
Interim Director of Critical Theory, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Herschel Farbman
Interim Director of Critical Theory, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Yale University
Comparative Modernisms; critical theory; film and media studies; psychoanalysis
Director of Critical Theory Emphasis, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Liron Mor
Director of Critical Theory Emphasis, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Cornell University
Modern Hebrew and Arabic literature and film; critical theory; political theory; conflict; law and colonization; translation studies; visual studies; Mizrahi studies
Associate Professor, Department of Global and International Studies
Yousuf Al-Bulushi
Associate Professor, Department of Global and International Studies
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
political geography, urban geography, political theory, racial regimes, global capitalism, africa, african diaspora, the americas, middle east, indian ocean, intellectual history & geography, comparative anti-systemic movements, black radical tradition, global black geographies, peace and conflict studies
On Leave 26-27
Writing Director / Academic Coordinator / Lecturer, Humanities Core Program
Tamara Beauchamp
Writing Director / Academic Coordinator / Lecturer, Humanities Core Program
Ph.D., UC Irvine
Global modernisms; psychoanalysis as theoretical and clinical practice; critical theory; medical humanities; digital literacy and multimodal writing instruction
Professor, Department of African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religion
J. Kameron Carter
Professor, Department of African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religion
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Black study of religion, blackness, race, colonialism, political theology and ecology
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; African American Studies
Sora Han
Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; African American Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Slavery and American Law; Critical Theory; Race, gender, sexuality studies; Psychoanalysis
Professor, Art
Simon Leung
Professor, Art
The field of art, contemporary art history, critical theory
Associate Professor, French, European Studies, and Philosophy
Christophe Litwin
Associate Professor, French, European Studies, and Philosophy
Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
Ph.D., New York University
Early Modern European/French moral and political philosophy. La Boétie, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Malebranche, Hume, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Hegel...
Associate Professor, English
Annie McClanahan
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Contemporary American literature and culture; Economic thought and history; Marxist theory; Theory of the novel
On Leave 26-27
Professor, Political Science
Kevin Olson
Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Contemporary Political Theory, Insurgent and Popular Politics, Colonialism and Postcoloniality, Cultural Politics, Poststructuralism, Critical Theory
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Braxton Soderman
Professor, Film and Media Studies
Ph.D., Brown University
Digital and New Media Studies, Video Games, Networks, Digital Art & Electronic Literature, Media Archaeology, Critical Theory
Graduate Student Representative
Jonah Henkle
Graduate Student Representative
Comparative Literature PhD Student at UCI
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