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Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Mass Media, Performance, Latin American and Latino Studies, LGBT+, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I'm an anthropologist specialized in the ethnography of media. My first book is on the accomplishment of femininity among beauty pageant contestants (misses) and transgender women (transformistas) in Venezuela. My work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. I am co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA, a social justice organization... more »


Areas of expertise: Social Movements, Social Theory, Political Theory, Affect Studies, Activism, Sexuality, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

2000 - Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago1989 - M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago1986 - B.A., in Government, Wesleyan University with High Honors Deborah Gould is Professor and Chair of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz (and affiliated faculty in Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Politics). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Political Science in 2000 and was a post-doctoral Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts a... more »


Areas of expertise: Sexuality, LGBT+, Psychology, Queer Studies, Social Justice, Social Psychology


Biography, Education and Training

PhD, University of Chicago MA, Loyola University, Chicago AB, Georgetown University

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Carla Freccero

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freccero@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, French, Queer Studies, Animal-Human Relationships, Feminist Theory, European Studies, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies


Biography, Education and Training

1984 Ph.D. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1980 M.Phil. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1977 B.A. cum laude Harvard University, History & Literature Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include Father Figures (Cornell,1991); Popular Culture (NYU, 1999); and Queer/Early/Modern (Duke, 2006). She co-edited Premodern Sexualities (Routledge, 1... more »


Areas of expertise: Writing, Archives, Archival Practices, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., English, Rutgers University M.A., English, University of Toronto B.A., English, George Washington University

Ronaldo V Wilson

Ronaldo V Wilson

Professor, Director Creative Writing Program

Literature Department, Creative Writing Program

Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Asian Studies, Art, Art Theory, Queer Studies, Performance, Poetry, Fiction, Visual Culture, Writing


Biography, Education and Training

Education:   2009 Ph.D., English, CUNY Graduate Center 1995 M.A., Poetry, New York University Graduate Creative Writing Program  1991 A.B., English, University of California, Berkeley   Biography:   Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, academic and author of six collections of hybrid and experimental works spanning poetry, fiction, mixed genre theory, performance, digital, sound, and visual art.  He has performed in multiple ... more »


Areas of expertise: Dance, Disability, Queer Studies, South Asian Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Cynthia is a Taiwanese American interdisciplinary artist who creates embodied art steeped in crip, queer, and feminist of color praxis. She is curious about chronic illness as a form of embodied training that contradicts dance's ableism, finding ways of sharing dance that depart from “the show must go on” urgency of theatrical production, and the creative possibilities of eco-crip embodiment, access aesthetics, and crip care webs. Their 2024 dance film moss time, crip time explo... more »

Dani Wright

Dani Wright

Lecturer of Art & Design: Games & Playable Media

Arts Division

Areas of expertise: Queer Studies, Game Design, Game Studies, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media, Design


Biography, Education and Training

dani (she/they) is a game designer and educator currently lecturing at UC Santa Cruz. She has studied computer science and game design ever since discovering an interest during high school. After loving a couple of design-centric courses, they switched their undergraduate major from Computer Science: Game Design to Art and Design: Games & Playable Media. Currently, she is currently lecturing for the Art & Design: Games & Playable Media major at UC Santa Cruz. dani is passionate abou... more »

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