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Lara Ramos Galas
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Lecturer
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Writing Program
  • Affiliations Cowell College
  • Phone
    831-459-2837
  • Email
  • 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