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
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