The Center brings together writers, scholars, and specialists from across disciplines to collaborate, design programming and provide mentorship. Click on the links below to learn more about our board members.

Barry Siegel, English and Literary Journalism, Director

Patricia Pierson, Literary Journalism, Associate Director

Adriana D. Briscoe, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sara Brown, Vice President of Health Systems and Family Resilience, First Five Orange County

Larisa Castillo, Humanities Core Program & Mindfulness at UCI Working Group

Simon Cole, Criminology

Miles Corwin, English and Literary Journalism

Paul Dourish, Informatics

Erika Hayasaki, English and Literary Journalism

Adria L. Imada, History 

Glen Mimura, Film and Media Studies and Asian American Studies

Catherine Sameh, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Héctor Tobar, English, Literary Journalism & Chicano/Latino Studies

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, History 

Amy Wilentz, English and Literary Journalism