JEFFREY SANTA ANA

Associate Professor

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

Asian North American and Asian-Pacific diaspora studies, environmental humanities and ecocriticism, human migration and diaspora, decolonization and postcolonial criticism, critical ethnic studies, memory studies, gender and sexuality (queer) studies, twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture.

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

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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 the creative works (literature, film, and cultural criticism) of Asian North Americans and Indigenous Pacific Islanders. 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 monograph titled Flood Memory: On Decolonial Land and Water Reckoning. By examining climate change and environmental ruin in examples of recent catastrophic weather events and in Indigenous Pacific Islander and Asian diasporic cultural works (literature, graphic narrative, and film), Flood Memory conceives a decolonial ecology critique to recognize and reckon with our contemporary climate and environmental crises in histories of colonialism and imperialist extraction in North America and the transpacific region. 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.