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.
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Faculty Bookshelf
Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley Author: David Marshall
Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film Edited by Bishnupriya Ghosh and Brinda Bose
Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature Author: Ben Olguín
Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters Edited by Felice Blake and Paula Ioanide, Alison Reed
The Literary Cosmopolitics of the Contemporary Indian Novel Author: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Author: Teresa Shewry
by Edith Wharton Edited by Candace Waid
Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information Author: Alan Liu
The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Author: Yunte Huang
A Mexican Medea Author: Cherríe Moraga
The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England Author: Patricia Fumerton
Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific Edited by Heidi Amin-Hong and Jeffrey Santa Ana, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing
Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee Author: Russell Samolsky
Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters Author: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
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…
The inscriptive . . . takes shape within the context of a heightened awareness of the intensified generation and circulation of language across media environments by human and nonhuman agents alike…
Arnhold Undergraduate Research Project
2021 Duration: Spring 2021
In light of recent acts of violence targeting Asians and Asian Americans, and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic, Asian Americans are experiencing heightened visibility and precariousness. There are growing calls to ...
Research Project
Recent & Upcoming Courses
ENGL 198H
Honors English Senior Thesis PreparationInstructor: Shewry, Teresa
Quarter: Spring 2022
ENGL 40BB
African American Literature from the Great Black Migration to Black Queer CritiqueInstructor: Blake, Felice
Quarter: Winter 2022
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