UCSC Literature Department

12/04/2025

04/30/2025

10/29/2023

UCSC Literature Department majors can graduate in three years. Find the sample plan at https://advising.ucsc.edu/success/3-year-pathways/index.html

04/30/2023

Travel | 27 April 2023 Travel Series: Kirsten Silva Gruesz Share Kirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching reflect hemispheric and multilingual approaches to the Americas, covering all periods of Chicanx/Latinx literary history as well as colonial ...

04/30/2023

Travel | 14 April 2023 Travel Series: Christopher Connery Share Christopher Connery is Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz and teaches in the graduate program in Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. He has published on early imperial Chinese culture, the figur...

04/30/2023

Travel | 7 April 2023 Travel Series: Sharon Kinosh*ta Share Sharon Kinosh*ta, the Interim Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute, is Professor of Literature and the co-director of The Mediterranean Seminar. Her research focuses on the literatures and cultures of the high Middle Ages. Her boo...

03/10/2023

06/03/2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102860709/uvalde-pronunciation

Featuring Literature professor Kirsten Silva Gruesz!

The name of the town comes from a misspelled Spanish name. The way people say it traces a long history of racializing Latinos in the U.S.