JEFFREY SANTA ANA

Associate Professor

Ph.D. English, University of California, Berkeley, 2004

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture; environmental humanities and ecocriticism; human migration and diaspora; decolonization and postcolonial criticism; critical ethnic studies; gender and sexuality (queer) studies; film studies and film narrative; memory studies

Also affiliated with: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS); Center for Changing Systems of Power.

Humanities 1094

Jeffrey.Santa.Ana@stonybrook.edu 

• Biography

  Biography

  Jeffrey Santa Ana received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (English and Environmental Studies) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on the environmental humanities and ecocriticism, decolonization and postcolonial criticism, critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality (queer) studies, memory studies, and film studies and film narrative. He is the author of RACIAL FEELINGS: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press), which shows how Asian American narratives communicate and critique—to varying degrees—the emotions that power the perception of Asians as racially different in America’s modern capitalist system. He is a co-editor and contributor of the book volume EMPIRE AND ENVIRONMENT: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific (University of Michigan Press). Santa Ana is currently at work on a new book titled Flood Memory: Decolonial Land and Water Reckoning in the Transpacific. By examining human-induced environmental ruin in examples of recent catastrophic weather events and in Pacific Islander and Asian diasporic cultural works (literature, graphic narrative, and film), Flood Memory conceives a decolonial ecology critique to locate our contemporary climate and environmental crisis in histories of colonialism and imperialist extraction in North America and the transpacific. Santa Ana is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and the Faculty Diversity Program Award from Diversity and Educational Equity, SUNY.