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
Website: Weisong Gao | Contact: wgao4@ucmerced.edu
Queer Theory; LGBTQ+ Literature; Diaspora; 21st-century Transnational Literature; Asian Anglophone Literature
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
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
Bristin Scalzo Jones
Assistant Teaching Professor in English and Spanish
Contact: bjones34@ucmerced.edu
Latin American and Italian Comparative Literatures; Literature and the Environment; Animal Studies
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
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