Core Faculty

Name	Title	Specialty	Email
Jonathan Alexander	Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education Published Books	Writing Studies Rhetoric/Composition Sexuality Studies	jfalexan@uci.edu
Bridget R. Cooks	Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art History Published Books	African American Art and Culture Black Visual Culture Museum Criticism	b.cooks@uci.edu
Sora Han	Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Published Books	Slavery and American Law Critical Theory Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies	sora.han@uci.edu
Sandra Harvey	Assistant Professor of African American Studies	Black diaspora and Native Studies Post-colonial theory Black feminist thought	slharvey@uci.edu
Horacio Legras	Professor of Spanish and Portuguese	Photography Psychoanalysis Insurgency	hlegras@uci.edu
Rodrigo Lazo	Associate Professor of English Published Books	American Studies Latino Studies 19th Century U.S. Literature and Culture	rlazo@uci.edu
James Kyung-Jin Lee	Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English	Asian American Literature and Culture Contemporary US Literature Race and Ethnic Studies	jkl@uci.edu
Jerry Won Lee	Assistant Professor of English Published Books	Sociolinguistics of globalization Critical applied linguistics Cultural theory	jwl@uci.edu
Julia Lee	Associate Professor of Asian American Studies Published Books	Asian American literature and culture Ethnic American literature and culture Early 20th Century African American literature	juliahl1@uci.edu
Annie McClanahan	Associate Professor of English Published Books	Cultural studies Marxist-Feminism critical university studies economic theory and history	annie.mcc@uci.edu
Rudo Robin Mudiwa	Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies	Decolonization, African Studies, Black Feminisms, Rhetoric, Urban Space	rmudiwa@uci.edu
John Murillo	Assistant Professor of African American Studies Published Books	Black (in) Time Quantum Blackanics	murilloj@uci.edu
Kevin Olson	Professor of Political Science	Contemporary Political Theory Insurgent and Popular Politics Postcoloniality	kevin.olson@uci.edu
R. Radhakrishnan	Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature Published Books	Postcoloniality Nationalisms and Diasporas Poststructuralism	rradhakr@uci.edu
Jared Sexton	Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies Published Books	Race and Sexuality Policing and Imprisonment Contemporary U.S. Cinema and Political Culture	jcsexton@uci.edu
John Smith	Professor Emeritus of German Published Books	18th-20th Century Literature Philosophy and intellectual history Literary theory	jhsmith@uci.edu
Rei Terada	Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Published Books	Theory History of Philosophy 19th and 20th Century Poetry	terada@uci.edu
Keith Topper	Associate Professor of Political Science	Political and Critical Theory Poststructuralism Theories of Power	ktopper@uci.edu
Aaron Trammell	Associate Professor of Informatics		trammell@uci.edu
Georges Van Den Abbeele	Professor of Comparative Literature & English	French and European philosophical literature travel narrative and tourism/migration studies critical theory	gvandena@uci.edu
Frank B. Wilderson	Professor of African American Studies Published Books	Afro-Pessimism Film Theory Marxism	fwilders@uci.edu
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard	Associate Professor of African American Studies Published Books	Comparative Racial Politics Third World Feminisms Black Political Thought	twilloug@uci.edu
Judy Wu	Professor of Asian American Studies Published Books	Asian American History Comparative Racialization and Immigration Empire and Decolonization	j.wu@uci.edu

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