Oakes Faculty Fellows
The Oakes College faculty represents a wealth of expertise from the natural sciences to the humanities, and we are proud to have some of the top scholars in the world among our faculty. Our students major in nearly every discipline at UCSC—from economics and computer science, to theater arts and Latin American and Latino studies—and they are well supported by the depth and breadth of the Oakes College faculty and the extensive knowledge of our advising team.
TBA is Oakes's faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
- Title
- Professor, Literature
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-5145
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 239 Humanities 1
- Office Hours by appointment
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Feminist Theory, Race, Popular Culture, Folklore
Research Interests
Feminist Theory and Gender Studies; Embodiment, Affect, and Identity; Fairy tales, Folklore, and Fantasy; Virtual Worlds; Popular Culture; Discourse Analysis and Ethnographic Methods
Selected Publications
- "Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter's Authorial Self-Fashioning." In Fashion and Authorship, ed. Gerald Egan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): 297-320.
- "The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality's Gendering." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1 (2018): 3-24.
- "Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 28.3 (2017): 44-66.
- "Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy." Narrative Culture 3.2 (2017): 141-179.
- "Snow White and the Trickster: Race and Genre in Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird." Western Folklore 75.3-4 (2016): 371-396.
- Erotic Infidelities: Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. (Wayne State UP, 2014)
- Body Language: Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics. (Temple UP, 2011)
- New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
- "The Political Lives of Avatars: Play and Democracy in Virtual Worlds." Western Folklore 69.3-4 (2010): 99-124.
- "Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism." In A Narrative Compass, ed. Betsy Hearne and Roberta Trites (University of Illinois Press, 2009). 19-30.
- "This Text Which is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Exploratory Auto-Ethnography." Journal of Folklore Research, May/December 2002.
- "Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism." Journal of American Folklore 113 (2000): 70-82.