Pronounsshe, her, her, hers, herself

Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleLecturer

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationCowell College

Primary Office LocationCrown College Faculty Wing
127

Office HoursAll meetings for the winter 2023 quarter are via Zoom or in person on Wednesdays from 12-2 PM PT. I am also available by appointment if those hours do not work with your schedule. Please email me for the office hours sign-up sheet and the Zoom link at lgalas@ucsc.edu.

Mail StopWriting Program

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. in Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz (2019) 

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. American Literature, Modes of Reading (Landscape Literature as a Mode of Reading), Translation Studies, Chicana/o Literature, and Borderland Studies

Teaching Interests

First-year composition; critical reading and writing; genre studies; feminist, intersectional, and de-colonial pedagogies and practices; Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century Latina/o Literature; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. American Literature; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies