DepartmentofLiterature UniversityofCalifornia 1156HighStreet SantaCruz,CA95064
REBECCAL.GROSS
CurriculumVitae
1107bSeabrightAvenue SantaCruz,CA95062
relgross@ucsc.edu 818-398-1024
EDUCATION:
PhD,Literature,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz in progress
Passed qualifying exam with Honors, May 2024
Advanced to candidacy, December 2024
M.A.EnglishLiterature,LoyolaMarymountUniversity,LosAngeles May2021
B.A.inEnglish,MagnaCumLaude,UniversityofWashington,Seattle June2018
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS:
- OutstandingTeachingAssistantAward,UCSCLiteraturedepartment|AwardedJune2025|$200
- GaryLeaseFellowship,HumanitiesatUCSC|AwardedMay2025|$2,500
- Honorsgranteduponcompletionofqualifyingexam,May2024
- SummerPublicFellowship,THIatUCSC|AwardedSummer2023|$6,000
- QEFellowship,DepartmentofLiteratureatUCSC|AwardedforSummer2024|$10,000
- SummerResearchFellowship,THIatUCSC|AwardedSpring2022|$3,000
- ResearchandTravelGrant,LiteratureDepartment,UCSC|AwardedWinter2022|$600
- NedaLoopAward,LMU|AwardedSpring2021|$500
- ProgramScholarAward,LMU|AwardedSpring2021|$500
- ProfessionalDevelopmentAward,LMU|AwardedSpring2021|$500
- EnglishGraduateSpringResearchandWritingGrant,LMU|AwardedSpring2020|$3,000
- GraduateLibraryResearchAward-HonorableMention,LMU|AwardedSpring2020|$100
- TeachingFellowship,LMU|2019-2021|FullTuitionremission
CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
- Forthcoming: AmericanStudiesAssociation,November2025inPuertoRico
- ReelWorkFilmFestivalinSantaCruz:Post-screeninginterviewerwithco-producerofthe2025 documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours
- SeeingRedSpeakerSeries,May2025inOakland:Discussantwithauthorandphilosopher RodrigoNunesabouthisbook, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal
- AnalyticsofValue:FormandCritiqueinContemporaryTheory,April2025atUCSC: Conferenceco-organizerwithProfessorofLiteratureandAuroraChair,BaliSahota Presentedpapertitled“TheLinguisticCapitalofModernHebrew”
- IntimaciesofRelation:TheAutotheoreticalTurn,March2025atUCSC: Participatedinaroundtablediscussion;presentedpapertitled“AncestralAssemblage”
Moderatedpaneltitled“Affects,Archives,Undoings”featuringpresentationsfromEldaMaría Román,AlexBrostoff,andCheGossett
- Mnemonics2024,UCLA:“DiasporicDisruptionsoftheNation-State:LookingBackwardtoMove ForwardinJudeo-FuturistPerformanceArt”
- ForgingCollectivities2024attheGraduateCenterforResearch,UCSB:“Judeo-Futurismand Anti-ZionisminthePerformancesofDavidBernsteinandJulieWeitz”
- MELUS,2023inIndianapolis:“A‘realizationofthepossible’:TheFantasticalinContemporary GraphicTextsaboutYiddishNewYork”
- CalJeMM,2022inLosAngeles:“MultidirectionalMemory,Trans-DiasporicSolidarity,and MENA-JCriticalFabulation”
- MELUS,2022inNewOrleans:“‘Everythingremainsthesameandyetnothingisthesame’: (Re)ArchivingTraumain Lucy, Annie John,and Breath, Eyes, Memory”
- AJS,2021inChicago:“MagicalMidrash:AContemporaryRhetoricalApproachtothe post-Holocaustvoid”
- SouthlandConference,2021viaUCLA:Title:“‘ANewRelationshipMustEmerge’:The ContemporaryJewishLeftandPalestinianSolidarityMovements”
- MMLA,2020inMilwaukee:“Fantasy,EmbodiedTrauma,andIntuition:HowThird-Generation SurvivorsareCreatingAlternativeWorldstoProjectthePastForward”
- SpringResearchAwardPresentation,2020atLMU:“ExcavatingSomaticArchives:Reclaiming IntergenerationalDiasporicMemory”
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
- Winter2022:“Hunters and Watchmen: ReclaimingBlackandJewishBodiesinContemporary AmericanSuperheroSeries”in The New Americanist
- Spring2020:“RhetoricsandViruses,”co-authoredin Rhetoric Society Quarterly
- Spring2020:“On(Not)BeingThere:ReflectionsontheStudyAbroadCourse‘TheHolocaustin Poland’intheeraofCovid-19,”Co-AuthoredwithDr.HolliLevitskyinthebook, Creating Under Covid
- Summer2019:“LaFemmeNoir”:UntranslatedandUnread”inthe Los Angeles Review of Books
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz:
- Forthcoming: Summer2025:InstructorofRecord,LIT160H:NarrativesofResistance:Anti-Zionist JewishLiterature
- Spring2025:TAforDorianBell,LIT160U,ConspiracyTheories(1section)
- Winter2025:TAforVilashiniCooppan,LIT80H,PoliticsofFashion(2sections)
- Fall2024:TAforErikBachman:LIT61H,ReadingtheMovies(2sections)
- Spring2024:TAforHunterBivens:LIT1,LiteraryInterpretation(1section,twiceweekly)
- Winter2024:TAforBruceThompson,LIT61J, IntroductiontoJewishLiteratureandCulture(2 sections)
- Fall2023:TAforErikBachman:LIT155A,CinemaandSubjectivity(1section)
- Spring2023:TAforZacZimmer:LIT81E,EngineeringCalifornia(2sections)
- Winter2023:TAforHunterBivens:LIT101,TheoryandInterpretation(1section)
- Fall2022:TAforErikBachman:LIT155H,HorrorFilms(1section)
- Winter2022:TAforBruceThompson:LIT61J, IntroductiontoJewishLiteratureandCulture(2 sections)
- Fall2021:ReaderforMeganMcDrew:SOCY111, FamilyandSociety,UCSC LoyolaMarymountUniversity
- Fall2020:InstructorofRecordfor“RhetoricalArts”
- Spring2021:InstructorofRecordfor“RhetoricalArts”
- Spring2020:WritingInstructor:“FirstYearSeminar:GenderandPopCulture”
- Spring2020:WritingInstructor:“FirstYearSeminar:PassingandSlumming”
- Fall2019:WritingInstructor:“FirstYearSeminar:HistoryofRaceandGender”(2sections)
TheTzimTzumCollective
- Spring2025:Instructorfor“JewishLiterature:AVisionofJewishnessBeyondtheIsraeliNation State”
OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Lux Magazine,June2023-September2024,remotely
- Editorialassistant
- Contributedtotheproductionofthemagazine’seighthissueasaneditor,managedthenewsletter,and assistedwithsocialmedia
UCSCBayTreeBookstorePreferredPartnershipCommittee,Oct 2022-June 2023inSantaCruz
- GraduateStudentRepresentative
LMUJewishStudiesDepartment&HuffingtonEcumenicalInstitute,Oct.2020-Sep.2021inLos Angeles
- GraduateResearchAssistant
- AssistedSeniorAdministrativeCoordinator,MargaretButterfield;Completedresearch-relatedtasks forDr HolliLevitsky;HelpedwithimplementationofdigitaleventmemorializingKristallnacht; Assistedinaccounting(processinginvoices,assistingwithbudget,taxationpaperwork)
The Black Scholar LiteraryJournal,March2018-Aug 2019inSeattle&Remote
- EditorialAssistanttoowner,LauraChrisman;ledprojectarchivingallpoetrypublishedinthejournal between1969andthepresent;assistedwithresearchingmarketing,advertising,andfundraising opportunitiesforthejournal
NewYorkTimesBestsellingAuthor,DavidShields,Aug.2018-Oct.2019inSeattle&Remote
- Workedwithteamofresearchassistantstoproofreadandfact-checkbook, Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump,outnow;wasleadQuote/Fact-CheckeronChapters4and5;Proofreadand fact-checkedMcSweeney’sarticlewrittenbyShields;Assistedwithresearchonhisrecentfilm releaseLynch:AHistory;First-readeronscreenplayadaptationofhisbook, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- AmericanStudiesAssociation,JoinedFebruary2025
- LiberatoryJewishStudiesNetwork,JoinedSeptember2024
- AssociationforJewishStudies,JoinedDecember2020
- SigmaTauDelta-EnglishHonorSociety,InductedSpring2020
- SocietyfortheStudyofMulti-EthnicLiteratureoftheUS(MELUS),JoinedDecember2019
- PhiBetaKappa,Spring2017-Present
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES:
- AcademicproficiencyinFrench,Spanish,Yiddish
REFERENCES:
Dr.DorianBell,AssociateProfessor,UCSCdepartmentofLiterature
- Email:dbell1@ucscedu
- Phone:(215)840-7542
Dr.VilashiniCooppan,Professor,UCSCdepartmentofLiterature
- Email:vcooppan@ucscedu
- Phone:(831)278-0515
Dr SophiaAzeb,AssistantProfessor,UCSCdepartmentofCriticalRaceandEthnicStudies
- Email:sazeb@ucsc.edu
- Phone:(213)222-3898