Faculty

Ana Raquel Rojas specializes in Decadent and Victorian Literature, with an emphasis on feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.

Kimberly Garrett has worked for over 24 years at the University of San Francisco. She has worked as a Program Assistant in the Department of English, the Honors Program in the Humanities, the Peace Review Journal, the MFA in Writing Program, and the Comparative Literature and Culture. From 2021-2024 she served as a Program Assistant Lead, ably managing 2 diverse teams of fellow PAs and creating a professional development training and retreat calendar. She is an USF alumna, having graduated with...

Eileen Fung is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco. Provost Eileen has dedicated over 26 years to USF, including significant time in academic leadership. She is responsible for the university’s five schools, libraries, academic affairs, enrollment management, online programs, international relations, and diversity and community outreach for the university’s 10,000 students, 1,000 faculty, and 1,000 staff.

Provost Fung was awarded the James...

Christina Garcia Lopez holds a PhD in American Studies with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her BA in English Literature at the University of North Texas and an MA in American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds. Previous to joining USF, she held a lectureship at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching and research interests include: Latinx and Chicanx literature; Ethnic...

Chloe Hunt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies from the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She specializes in Black speculative fiction and contemporary Black literature and culture. Her dissertation, Conjuring New Worlds: Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and the Restructuring of Blackness, explores speculative fiction as a critical site of theorization where...

Dr. Omar F. Miranda is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He received his PhD in English and American Literature from New York University and specializes in the literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially their transnational, global, and diasporic contexts. He is currently working on a book manuscript that tracks the origins and rise of the culture of global celebrity in the Romantic period. He is also part of an editorial team assembling the new Ro...

Professor Rader has authored or co-authored eleven books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named a “Best Poetry Book” by The Barnes & Noble Review. Recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Best of the Net, and many others.

Professor Rader also writes and reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, BOMB, and the Los Angeles Review...

Susan Steinberg is the author of four books of fiction: Machine (Graywolf Press), Spectacle (Graywolf Press), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2).

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a United States Artists Fellowship, Professor Steinberg has also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, The...

Sarah Cronin is a multi-genre writer, journalist and teacher. Her work has been featured in publications across the U.S., Brazil and Guatemala. In 2023, her poetry was long listed for the Frontier Poetry Hurt & Healing Prize. Sarah has worked at the University of San Francisco as a Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Professor for the English Department and Writer for the School of Law.

Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and with Stanford University's Master of Liberal Arts program.

A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Marble House Project, Artsmith Orcas Island, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse...

T.S. Leonard is the author of God Save the Queens! (Irrelevant Press, 2022) and poems published in Post Road, Fourteen Poems, Foglifter, Frontera, & Change, and The San Franciscan. Leonard’s work explores queerness, loss, and community at the intersection of disco music and time travel. His essays on art and music have been published in Missouri Life and The New Territory. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Leonard has lived in Los Angeles, Portland, and San Francisco. Leonard was a finalist...

Sara Marinelli grew up in Italy, where she received her PhD in Anglophone Literatures from the University of Rome, "La Sapienza." After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, she decided to make the Bay Area her home, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. 

She is a fiction and nonfiction writer, a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera, and the 2024-2025 Brown Handler Writer in Residence at the San Francisco Public Library. Sara is also...

Natacha is an award-winning storyteller, media producer, and educator. She strives to use text, film, sound, and live performance to deepen our understanding of the world we live in and foster action.

Her documentary work has appeared at the MoMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as on National Geographic, NBC NY, and Link TV. Her radio work has appeared on public radio affiliates nationally and locally. She is currently the showrunner for Adonde Media’s acclaimed Duolingo...

Pat Schwieterman earned BS degrees in Environmental Science and Plant Science at UC Riverside, and MA and PhD degrees in medieval English literature at UC Berkeley. At USF, he has taught courses on Middle English literature, children's literature, science fiction, and the Arthurian legend. His research focuses on the use of supernatural beings in constructions of cultural and political identity in medieval Britain. Other interests include medieval Wales, Old Icelandic and Old French, and the...

Tanya Žilinskas' stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, The Florida Review, Porter House Review, Meetinghouse, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from the Napa Valley Writers Conference, Writing By Writers, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. She is working on a novel about internet conspiracies in the aughts and a linked story collection set in a surreal version of Marin County.

Carolyn Brown received her PhD in English from the University of California–Davis. Her specialization is Shakespeare and Renaissance / Early Modern literature, from a feminist, psychoanalytic, historicist, and /or political perspective. She has published in several anthologies on Shakespeare and the following journals: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900; Texas Studies in Literature and Language; Studies in Philology; American Imago; Literature and Psychology; Clio: A Journal of Literature...

Alan Heineman taught Introduction to Literary Studies; Period Course (19th and 20th Century American Lit); Special Topics in Literature (Faulkner); Honors in Humanities Seminar. He has written a textbook, Writing Term Papers (with Hulon Willis) (Harcourt Brace), which went into three editions.  He’s also published scholarly articles and reviews of contemporary fiction.  He has been Senior Editor of the San Francisco Review of Books, and written more than 100 articles, columns, and reviews of...

Patricia Liggins Hill earned her PhD in English from Stanford. She is the general editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. She has also published articles on Etheridge Knight and Francis Watkins Harper. She teaches African American Literature and curates student involvement in the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.