JEFFREY SANTA ANA

Associate Professor
Ph.D. English, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
Asian 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
Affiliations: The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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 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 Transpacific Ecological Imagination: On Decolonial Land and Water Memory. The book conceives an anti-imperialist ecological imagination in Indigenous Pacific Islander and Asian diasporic cultural works (literature, graphic narrative, and film), and shows how these works articulate a decolonial ecologies concept to locate Earth’s current environmental crises in histories of empire, settler colonialism, and imperialist extraction in the transpacific region. Santa Ana is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and the Faculty Diversity Program Award from Diversity and Educational Equity, SUNY.