Katherine Steele Brokaw
Associate Professor of English and English Program Coordinator
Contact: kbrokaw@ucmerced.edu | Website: Katherine Steele Brokaw
Theatre and ecology; community performance; Shakespeare; medieval and renaissance literature and culture
Fatima Burney
Assistant Professor of English
Contact: fburney@ucmerced.edu
World poetry; 19th-century American, Perisan, and Urdu poetry; global romanticism; poetry and ecology
Gregg Camfield
Professor of English and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of UC Merced
Website: Gregg Camfield
19th-century American literature; Mark Twain; humor and comedy
Weisong Gao
Assistant Professor of English and English Public Relations and Events Coordinator
Contact: wgao4@ucmerced.edu | Website: Weisong Gao
21st-century transnational literature; Asian Anglophone literature; LGBT+ literature; queer studies
Humberto Garcia
Associate Professor of English, Vincent Hillyer Chair, and Vice Chair of Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Contact: hgarcia22@ucmerced.edu | Website: Humberto Garcia
British Romanticism; Romantic Orientalism; postcolonial criticism; Islam and literature
Jan Goggans
Associate Professor of English
Contact: jgoggans@ucmered.edu | Website: Jan Goggans
Early 20th-century American literature and culture; fashion and fiction; working class literature
Nigel Hatton
Associate Professor of Literature and Philosophy
Contact: nhatton@ucmerced.edu | Website: Nigel Hatton
Literature and Human Rights; Kierkegaard and moral philosophy; transnational American literature
Mai-Linh Hong
Assistant Professor of Literature
Contact: hongm@ucmerced.edu Website: Mai-Linh Hong
Asian American and Asian diaspora literature; critical refugee studies; 20th/21st-century American literature; Contemporary poetry; race and ethnic studies; law and humanities
Matthew Kaiser
Professor of English
Contact: matthew.kaiser@ucmerced.edu | Website: Matthew Kaiser
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, comedy studies, gender and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ literatures, and neurodiversity studies
Felicia Rhapsody Lopez
Assistant Professor of Chicanx Studies and English
Contact: flopez44@ucmerced.edu
Chicanx Studies; borderlands theory; Nahua texts; indigenous studies
Paul Prescott
Professor of English and Director of English Honors Program
Contact: pprescott@ucmerced.edu
Theatre and performance; Shakespeare; theatre and ecology.
Adam Bryx
Lecturer in English
Contact: abryx@ucmerced.edu
Theatre and performance; surrealism
Bristin Jones
Lecturer in English and Spanish
Contact: bjones34@ucmerced.edu
Latin American and Italian comparative literatures; literature and the environment; animal studies
Ryan Hall Page
Lecturer in English and Spark
Contact: rpage2@ucmerced.edu | Website: Ryan Hall Page
19th-century literature; melodrama and naturalistic drama
Updated 2021