Cristobal Silva
دانشیار · African American Literature & Culture / Black Diaspora Studies
University of California, Los Angelesمعرفی
Cristobal Silva is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he serves as the director of Career Development and Placement.
His educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in English from New York University (2003)
- B.A. in English and Mathematics from UC Berkeley (1992)
Professor Silva's research intersects literature, history, and medicine with focus on Colonial American, Caribbean, and Early Black Atlantic Literatures alongside Medical Humanities. His work spans African American Literature & Culture, Disability Studies, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Transatlantic Studies, and History of Science and Technology.
He authored Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative (Oxford, 2011) analyzing epidemic narratives in early American history, and currently develops two books: Republic of Medicine examining modern medicine's emergence with the Atlantic Slave Trade, and How to Name a Plague addressing geopolitics, environmental contamination, and caregiving. He co-edited Digital Grainger (online edition of The Sugar-Cane) and served as editor for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
His teaching encompasses Colonial American, Caribbean, and Early Black Atlantic Literatures through courses including Introduction to American Literature (Engl. 11), Voices of the Early Black Atlantic (Engl 135), Surveys of Early American Literature (Engl 166A/B), Graphic Medicine (Engl 184), and Forms of New World Narrative (Engl 254).
