UC Irvine Student Center
Name Title Specialty Email

 

Jonathan Alexander

Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics
Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education
 Published Books

 

Writing Studies
Rhetoric/Composition
Sexuality Studies

 

jfalexan@uci.edu

 

Bridget R. Cooks

Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art History
 Published Books
African American Art and Culture
Black Visual Culture
Museum Criticism

 

b.cooks@uci.edu

 

Sora Han

Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
 Published Books
Slavery and American Law
Critical Theory
Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies

 

sora.han@uci.edu

 

Sandra Harvey

Assistant Professor of African American Studies Black diaspora and Native Studies
Post-colonial theory
Black feminist thought

 

slharvey@uci.edu

 

Rodrigo Lazo

Associate Professor of English
 Published Books
American Studies
Latino Studies
19th Century U.S. Literature and Culture

 

rlazo@uci.edu

 

James Kyung-Jin Lee

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English Asian American Literature and Culture
Contemporary US Literature
Race and Ethnic Studies

 

jkl@uci.edu

 

Jerry Won Lee

Assistant Professor of English
 Published Books
Sociolinguistics of globalization
Critical applied linguistics
Cultural theory

 

jwl@uci.edu

 

Julia Lee

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
 Published Books
Asian American literature and culture
Ethnic American literature and culture
Early 20th Century African American literature

 

juliahl1@uci.edu

Annie McClanahan

Associate Professor of English                           Published Books

Contemporary American literature and culture
Economic thought and history
Marxist theory
annie.mcc@uci.edu

 

John Murillo

Assistant Professor of African American Studies
 Published Books
Black (in) Time
Quantum Blackanics

 

murilloj@uci.edu

 

Kevin Olson

Professor of Political Science Contemporary Political Theory
Insurgent and Popular Politics
Postcoloniality

 

kevin.olson@uci.edu

 

R. Radhakrishnan

Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature
 Published Books
Postcoloniality
Nationalisms and Diasporas
Poststructuralism

 

rradhakr@uci.edu

 

Jared Sexton

Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies
 Published Books
Race and Sexuality
Policing and Imprisonment
Contemporary U.S. Cinema and Political Culture

 

jcsexton@uci.edu

 

John Smith

Professor of German
 Published Books
18th-20th Century Literature
Philosophy and intellectual history
Literary theory

 

jhsmith@uci.edu

 

Rei Terada

Professor of Comparative Literature
 Published Books
Theory
History of Philosophy
19th and 20th Century Poetry

 

terada@uci.edu

 

Keith Topper

Associate Professor of Political Science Political and Critical Theory
Poststructuralism
Theories of Power

 

ktopper@uci.edu

 

Georges Van Den Abbeele

Professor of Comparative Literature & English French and European philosophical literature
travel narrative and tourism/migration studies
critical theory

 

gvandena@uci.edu

 

Frank B. Wilderson

Professor of African American Studies
 Published Books
Afro-Pessimism
Film Theory
Marxism

 

fwilders@uci.edu

 

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Associate Professor of African American Studies
 Published Books
Comparative Racial Politics
Third World Feminisms
Black Political Thought

 

twilloug@uci.edu

 

Judy Wu

Professor of Asian American Studies
 Published Books
Asian American History
Comparative Racialization and Immigration
Empire and Decolonization

 

j.wu@uci.edu