Leslie Hammer

Leslie Hammer is a Continuing Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), part of the College of Letters and Science. She teaches courses including Writing 1, Writing 2, and specialized writing sequences for Cultural Rhetorics, Chicanx Studies, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on 19th-century US Literature, multiethnic literatures, Native Hawaiian texts, US women’s writing, transnational literature, and autobiography studies.

Dr. Hammer holds a Ph.D. in Literature from UC San Diego. She currently serves as Chair of the Academic Communities of Excellence (ACE) Program and the Writing 1 Committee, demonstrating her leadership in curriculum development and academic support initiatives.