Affiliated Faculty

Neda Atanasoski
Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies
U.S. and Eastern European film and media; cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion.
     
Julianne Burton-Carvajal   
Professor of Literature
Twentieth-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California, particularly the Central Coast.
     

Teresa de Lauretis    
Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness
Semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, film theory, literary theory, queer theory.
     

Rosa Linda Fregoso  
Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
Cultural studies, transnational feminist theories, Chiana/o and Latina/o cinema.
     

Herman S. Gray
Professor of Sociology
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics.
     

Donna Haraway
Professor of History of Consciousness
Feminist theory, cultural and historical studies of science and technology, relation of life and human sciences, human-animal relations, and animal studies.
     

David Marriott
Professor of History of Consciousness
Literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism.
     

B. Ruby Rich
Professor of Community Studies
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
     

Renee Tajima-Peña
Associate Professor of Community Studies
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change.