Dr. Ryan Wander
Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. US Literature
University of California, Davis - M.A. US Literature
University of California, Davis - B.A. Literature
University of California, Santa Cruz
His research focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-Century US literature, Asian American literature, settler colonial studies, and gender and sexuality studies. His teaching spans across periods and genres, from Native American folklore and colonial sermons to contemporary poetry and fiction by writers such as Layli Long Soldier and Tom Lin.
Recent Publications:
“Psychoanalysis,” in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications; and an academic monograph titled Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West.