Jonathan Alexander

Jonathan Alexander
jfalexan@uci.edu
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Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics

Director, Humanities Core

Interests: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Language/Writing/Rhetoric, Film/TV/New Media, 20th- and 21st- Century American, Creative Writing, Literary Journalism

 

Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth Allen
eallen@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Medieval , Law and Literature, Religious Studies

 

Jami Bartlett

Jami Bartlett
j.bartlett@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: 19th-Century British, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Critical Theory

 

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Srimayee Basu 
srimayeb@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of English

Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century American, African American Studies, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Critical Theory

 

 

Nahum Dimitri Chandler

Nahum Dimitri Chandler
chandlen@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: 18th- and 19th-Century American, Critical Theory, African American Studies

On leave through 2027.

 

Miles Corwin

Miles Corwin
corwinm@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Literary Journalism

 

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Rebecca Davis
radavis@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English
Vice Chair and Chair of Undergraduate Studies

Interests: Medieval , Poetry/Poetics, Religious Studies

 

 

Christopher Fan

Christopher Fan
chris.fan@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: Asian American Studies / Global Asias, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Film/TV/New Media, 20th- and 21st-Century American

 

Kyle Grady

Kyle Grady
kyle.grady@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of English

Interests: Early Modern, African American Studies

 

 

Daniel M. Gross

Daniel M. Gross
dgross@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Affiliated Faculty, Critical Theory Emphasis
Campus Writing & Communication Coordinator
Director, Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication

                                  Interests: Early Modern, Restoration and 18th-Century British, Critical Theory, Language/Writing/Rhetoric

 

Erika Hayasaki

Erika Hayasaki
ehayasak@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: Literary Journalism

 

 

Rebeca Helfer

Rebeca Helfer
rhelfer@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: Early Modern Literature, Memory/Mnemonics, Poetics

 

 

Andrea Henderson

Andrea Henderson
akhender@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: 19th-Century British, Poetry/Poetics

 

 

Oren Izenberg

Oren Izenberg
o.izenberg@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, Poetry/Poetics, Critical Theory, 20th- and 21st-Century British

 

Virginia Jackson

Virginia Jackson
vwjackso@uci.edu
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature
UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Communication

Interests: Poetry/Poetics, Critical Theory, 18th- and 19th-Century American, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, 20th- and 21st-Century American, history of American poetics and the history and theory of Black poetics.

 

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Joseph Jeon
jjjeon@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Graduate chair

 

Interests: Film/TV/New Media, 20th- and 21st-Century American, Asian American Studies / Global Asias

 

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Michelle Latiolais
latiolai@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Director of the MFA Programs in Writing

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, 20th- and 21st-Century British, Creative Writing

 

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Jerry Won Lee
jwl@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Critical Theory, Asian American Studies / Global Asias, Language/Writing/Rhetoric

 

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Jayne Lewis
jelewis@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century British, 19th-Century British, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Religious Studies

 

Julia Reinhard Lupton

Julia R. Lupton
jrlupton@uci.edu
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Distinguished Professor, English

Interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance Literature; Religious Studies; Jewish Studies; Humanities and the Public Sphere; design and everyday life.

 

Theodore Martin

Theodore Martin
theodojm@uci.edu
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Associate Professor English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, 20th- and 21st-Century British, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Film/TV/New Media, Critical Theory

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Annie McClanahan
amcclana@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Film/TV/New Media, Critical Theory

 

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Tyrus Miller
tyrus@uci.edu
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Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of English and Art History

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century British, Critical Theory

 

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Valentina Montero Roman
monterov@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, African American Studies, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

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Cole Morgan
morganc2@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of English

Interests: African American Studies, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Film/TV/New Media, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory, Critical Theory

 

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Laura O'Connor
loconnor@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century British, Poetry/Poetics, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic

 

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Bradley Queen
bradley.queen@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of Teaching
Director of Composition

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, Language/Writing/Rhetoric, Law and Literature

 

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R. Radhakrishnan
rradhakr@uci.edu
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Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Interests: Critical Theory, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, Poetry/Poetics, Asian American Studies / Global Asias

 

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Hugh Roberts
hroberts@uci.edu
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Associate Professor Emeritus of English
                    Advisor for English Majors' Association (EMA)

                    Interests: Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Restoration and 18th-Century British, Poetry/Poetics

 

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Natalie Shapero
nshapero@uci.edu
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Associate Professor of English

Interests: Poetry/Poetics, Creative Writing

 

 

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Barry Siegel
bsiegel@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Director of Literary Journalism

Interests: Literary Journalism, Creative Writing

 

Victoria Silver
vasilver@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Early Modern, Critical Theory, Religious Studies

 

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James Steintrager
jsteintr@uci.edu
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Professor of English
Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of French

                                  Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century British, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

Michael Szalay

Michael Szalay
mszalay@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century American, Critical Theory, Film/TV/New Media

 

 

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ngugi@uci.edu
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Distinguished Professor of English
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Lit.

Interests: Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic

 

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Hector Tobar
htobar@uci.edu
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Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and English

Interests: Literary Journalism, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, 20th- and 21st-Century American

 

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Mercedes Trigos
mtrigos@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of English

Interests: Twentieth-century literatures and cultures of the Americas; Chicanx, Latinx, and Mexican studies; racialization; sex and sexuality; feminisms

 

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Irene Tucker
irenet@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century British, 19th-Century British, Novel Studies/Narrative Theory

 

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Georges Van Den Abbeele
gvandena@uci.edu
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On leave for 2024-2025

Professor of Comparative Literature and English

Interests: 20th- and 21st-Century British, Critical Theory

 

 

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Andrzej Warminski
ajwarmin@uci.edu
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Professor Emeritus, English
 

Interests: Critical Theory, 19th-Century British, Poetry/Poetics

 

Claire Vaye Watkins
cvwatkin@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Creative Writing, Literary Journalism, Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

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Amy Wilentz
awilentz@uci.edu
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Professor of English

Interests: Literary Journalism

 

 

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Monica Youn
myyoun@uci.edu
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On leave for 2024-2025

Professor of English

Interests: Poetry/Poetics, Creative Writing, Asian American Studies / Global Asias