With 30+ faculty, a dozen research centers and projects, and a culture of collaboration, we continue to invent new ways to do humanities research, creative-critical work, and public-facing projects on a beautiful campus between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez mountains.
Faculty Bookshelf
Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix Edited by Bernadette Andrea
Seeing Faulkner’s Art Author: Candace Waid
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution Author: William Warner
Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature Author: Ben Olguín
Imagining Eden in Milton's England Author: Ken Hiltner
Selected Poems Author: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century Author: Maurizia Boscagli
Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture Edited by Ben Olguín and Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
The Literary Cosmopolitics of the Contemporary Indian Novel Author: Bishnupriya Ghosh
New and Selected Stories Author: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry Author: Yunte Huang
The Humanities and Society in the 1990s Edited by Christopher Newfield and Ron Strickland
Form and Effect Author: H. Porter Abbott
Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England Author: Michael O'Connell
New Essays on Edith Wharton Edited by Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt, Susan Goodman
Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World Author: Giles Gunn
by Edith Wharton Edited by Candace Waid
A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts Edited by L.O. Aranye Fradenburg
Thinking through Seawater Author: Melody Jue
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity Author: Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Fictions of Women and Writing Author: Candace Waid
Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture Author: Jeannine Marie DeLombard
History, Literature, Counterpoetics Author: Yunte Huang
Poetic and abolitionist imaginaries continue to intervene in our current political and cultural landscape in ways that challenge the violent status quo. As our beautiful vision reminds us, we are not the passive observers of history…
2016
In the fall of 2013, we asked ourselves what we’d learn if we made a broadside ballad from the ground up; The Making of a Broadside Ballad provides our answers to that question. Taking cues ...
Read The Making of a Broadside Ballad (Internet Archive link).
Research Project
Recent & Upcoming Courses
ENGL 192DF
Science Fiction:
Dystopian FictionInstructor: Donnelly, Brian
Quarter: Summer A 2022
ENGL 591
Doctoral ColloquiumInstructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
Quarter: Spring 2023
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