Core Faculty
| Photo | Name | Title | Specialty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Jonathan Alexander | Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education Published Books | Writing Studies Rhetoric/Composition Sexuality Studies | jfalexan@uci.edu |
 | Bridget R. Cooks | Associate Professor of African American Studies and Art History Published Books | African American Art and Culture Black Visual Culture Museum Criticism | b.cooks@uci.edu |
 | Sora Han | Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Published Books | Slavery and American Law Critical Theory Race, Gender, Sexuality Studies | sora.han@uci.edu |
 | Sandra Harvey | Assistant Professor of African American Studies | Black diaspora and Native Studies Post-colonial theory Black feminist thought | slharvey@uci.edu |
 | Rodrigo Lazo | Associate Professor of English Published Books | American Studies Latino Studies 19th Century U.S. Literature and Culture | rlazo@uci.edu |
 | James Kyung-Jin Lee | Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English | Asian American Literature and Culture Contemporary US Literature Race and Ethnic Studies | jkl@uci.edu |
 | Jerry Won Lee | Assistant Professor of English Published Books | Sociolinguistics of globalization Critical applied linguistics Cultural theory | jwl@uci.edu |
 | Julia Lee | Associate Professor of Asian American Studies Published Books | Asian American literature and culture Ethnic American literature and culture Early 20th Century African American literature | juliahl1@uci.edu |
 | John Murillo | Assistant Professor of African American Studies Published Books | Black (in) Time Quantum Blackanics | murilloj@uci.edu |
 | Kevin Olson | Professor of Political Science | Contemporary Political Theory Insurgent and Popular Politics Postcoloniality | kevin.olson@uci.edu |
 | R. Radhakrishnan | Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature Published Books | Postcoloniality Nationalisms and Diasporas Poststructuralism | rradhakr@uci.edu |
 | Jared Sexton | Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies Published Books | Race and Sexuality Policing and Imprisonment Contemporary U.S. Cinema and Political Culture | jcsexton@uci.edu |
 | John Smith | Professor of German Published Books | 18th-20th Century Literature Philosophy and intellectual history Literary theory | jhsmith@uci.edu |
 | Rei Terada | Professor of Comparative Literature Published Books | Theory History of Philosophy 19th and 20th Century Poetry | terada@uci.edu |
 | Keith Topper | Associate Professor of Political Science | Political and Critical Theory Poststructuralism Theories of Power | ktopper@uci.edu |
 | Georges Van Den Abbeele | Professor of Comparative Literature & English | French and European philosophical literature travel narrative and tourism/migration studies critical theory | gvandena@uci.edu |
 | Frank B. Wilderson | Professor of African American Studies Published Books | Afro-Pessimism Film Theory Marxism | fwilders@uci.edu |
 | Tiffany Willoughby-Herard | Associate Professor of African American Studies Published Books | Comparative Racial Politics Third World Feminisms Black Political Thought | twilloug@uci.edu |
 | Judy Wu | Professor of Asian American Studies Published Books | Asian American History Comparative Racialization and Immigration Empire and Decolonization | j.wu@uci.edu |