Directory
- Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
- Title
- Lecturer
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Writing Program
- Affiliations Cowell College
- Phone 831-459-2837
- Office Location
- Crown College Faculty Wing, 127
- Office Hours All 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 Stop Writing Program
- Courses WRIT 2: Re-memory as a Tool of Empowerment through Writing, Cowell College One, WRIT 1: Introduction to Composition
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
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D. in Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
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