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The Defense of the University

Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

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Valerio Amoretti

Assistant Professor

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    South Hall 2505
  • Email:
    amoretti@ucsb.edu
  • Mailing Address:
    English Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

Research Center Affiliations

  • Literature and Mind
  • Office:
    South Hall 2505
  • Email:
    amoretti@ucsb.edu
  • Mailing Address:
    English Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

Courses Taught

  • Quarter
    Course #
    Title
  • Fall 2026
    ENGL 236
    Novel Thinking: Expectation and Experimentalism
  • Spring 2027 (Tentative)
    ENGL 174XX
    Inventions of the Self II
  • Winter 2027 (Tentative)
    ENGL 172
    Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Fall 2026
    ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Novel Thinking: Expectation and Experimentalism
  • Fall 2026
    ENGL 174CA
    From Confession to Autofiction (Inventions of the Self I)
  • Spring 2026
    ENGL 174CA
    From Confession to Autofiction (Inventions of the Self I)
  • Spring 2026
    ENGL 236AC
    Affect, Creativity and the Writing Self (Inventions of the Self II)
  • Winter 2026
    ENGL 173
    Between Text & Reader: Theoretical, Psychological, and Scientific Perspectives
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