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REBECCA L. GROSS Curriculum Vitae

Department of Literature University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064

1107b Seabright Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062 relgross@ucsc.edu 818-398-1024

EDUCATION: PhD, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz​ ​ ​ ​ Passed qualifying exam with Honors, May 2024 Advanced to candidacy, December 2024 M.A. English Literature, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles​ B.A. in English, Magna Cum Laude, University of Washington, Seattle​ ​

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May 2021 June 2018

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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UCSC Literature department | Awarded June 2025 | $200 Gary Lease Fellowship, Humanities at UCSC | Awarded May 2025 | $2,500 Honors granted upon completion of qualifying exam, May 2024 Summer Public Fellowship, THI at UCSC | Awarded Summer 2023 | $6,000 QE Fellowship, Department of Literature at UCSC | Awarded for Summer 2024 | $10,000 Summer Research Fellowship, THI at UCSC | Awarded Spring 2022 | $3,000 Research and Travel Grant, Literature Department, UCSC | Awarded Winter 2022 | $600 Neda Loop Award, LMU | Awarded Spring 2021 | $500 Program Scholar Award, LMU | Awarded Spring 2021 | $500 Professional Development Award, LMU | Awarded Spring 2021 | $500 English Graduate Spring Research and Writing Grant, LMU | Awarded Spring 2020 | $3,000 Graduate Library Research Award - Honorable Mention, LMU | Awarded Spring 2020 | $100 Teaching Fellowship, LMU | 2019-2021 | Full Tuition remission

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Forthcoming: American Studies Association, November 2025 in Puerto Rico Reel Work Film Festival in Santa Cruz: Post-screening interviewer with co-producer of the 2025 documentary, Everything You Have Is Yours Seeing Red Speaker Series, May 2025 in Oakland: Discussant with author and philosopher Rodrigo Nunes about his book, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal Analytics of Value: Form and Critique in Contemporary Theory, April 2025 at UCSC: Conference co-organizer with Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair, Bali Sahota Presented paper titled “The Linguistic Capital of Modern Hebrew” Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn, March 2025 at UCSC: Participated in a roundtable discussion; presented paper titled “Ancestral Assemblage”

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Moderated panel titled “Affects, Archives, Undoings” featuring presentations from Elda María Román, Alex Brostoff, and Che Gossett Mnemonics 2024, UCLA: “Diasporic Disruptions of the Nation-State: Looking Backward to Move Forward in Judeo-Futurist Performance Art” Forging Collectivities 2024 at the Graduate Center for Research, UCSB: “Judeo-Futurism and Anti-Zionism in the Performances of David Bernstein and Julie Weitz” MELUS, 2023 in Indianapolis: “A ‘realization of the possible’: The Fantastical in Contemporary Graphic Texts about Yiddish New York” CalJeMM, 2022 in Los Angeles: “Multidirectional Memory, Trans-Diasporic Solidarity, and MENA-J Critical Fabulation” MELUS, 2022 in New Orleans: “‘Everything remains the same and yet nothing is the same’: (Re)Archiving Trauma in Lucy, Annie John, and Breath, Eyes, Memory” AJS, 2021 in Chicago: “Magical Midrash: A Contemporary Rhetorical Approach to the post-Holocaust void” Southland Conference, 2021 via UCLA: Title: “‘A New Relationship Must Emerge’: The Contemporary Jewish Left and Palestinian Solidarity Movements” MMLA, 2020 in Milwaukee: “Fantasy, Embodied Trauma, and Intuition: How Third-Generation Survivors are Creating Alternative Worlds to Project the Past Forward” Spring Research Award Presentation, 2020 at LMU: “Excavating Somatic Archives: Reclaiming Intergenerational Diasporic Memory”

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Winter 2022: “Hunters and Watchmen: Reclaiming Black and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary American Superhero Series” in The New Americanist Spring 2020: “Rhetorics and Viruses,” co-authored in Rhetoric Society Quarterly Spring 2020: “On (Not) Being There: Reflections on the Study Abroad Course ‘The Holocaust in Poland’ in the era of Covid-19,” Co-Authored with Dr. Holli Levitsky in the book, Creating Under Covid Summer 2019: “La Femme Noir”: Untranslated and Unread” in the Los Angeles Review of Books

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: University of California, Santa Cruz: -​ Forthcoming: Summer 2025: Instructor of Record, LIT 160H: Narratives of Resistance: Anti-Zionist Jewish Literature -​ Spring 2025: TA for Dorian Bell, LIT 160U, Conspiracy Theories (1 section) -​ Winter 2025: TA for Vilashini Cooppan, LIT 80H, Politics of Fashion (2 sections) -​ Fall 2024: TA for Erik Bachman: LIT 61H, Reading the Movies (2 sections) -​ Spring 2024: TA for Hunter Bivens: LIT 1, Literary Interpretation (1 section, twice weekly) -​ Winter 2024: TA for Bruce Thompson, LIT 61J, Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture (2 sections) -​ Fall 2023: TA for Erik Bachman: LIT 155A, Cinema and Subjectivity (1 section) -​ Spring 2023: TA for Zac Zimmer: LIT 81E, Engineering California (2 sections) -​ Winter 2023: TA for Hunter Bivens: LIT 101, Theory and Interpretation (1 section)

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Fall 2022: TA for Erik Bachman: LIT 155H, Horror Films (1 section) Winter 2022: TA for Bruce Thompson: LIT 61J, Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture (2 sections) Fall 2021: Reader for Megan McDrew: SOCY 111, Family and Society, UCSC

Loyola Marymount University -​ Fall 2020: Instructor of Record for “Rhetorical Arts” -​ Spring 2021: Instructor of Record for “Rhetorical Arts” -​ Spring 2020: Writing Instructor: “First Year Seminar: Gender and Pop Culture” -​ Spring 2020: Writing Instructor: “First Year Seminar: Passing and Slumming” -​ Fall 2019: Writing Instructor: “First Year Seminar: History of Race and Gender” (2 sections) The TzimTzum Collective -​ Spring 2025: Instructor for “Jewish Literature: A Vision of Jewishness Beyond the Israeli Nation State” OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: Lux Magazine, June 2023 - September 2024, remotely -​ Editorial assistant -​ Contributed to the production of the magazine’s eighth issue as an editor, managed the newsletter, and assisted with social media UCSC Bay Tree Bookstore Preferred Partnership Committee, Oct. 2022 - June. 2023 in Santa Cruz -​ Graduate Student Representative LMU Jewish Studies Department & Huffington Ecumenical Institute, Oct. 2020 - Sep. 2021 in Los Angeles -​ Graduate Research Assistant -​ Assisted Senior Administrative Coordinator, Margaret Butterfield; Completed research-related tasks for Dr. Holli Levitsky; Helped with implementation of digital event memorializing Kristallnacht; Assisted in accounting (processing invoices, assisting with budget, taxation paperwork) The Black Scholar Literary Journal, March 2018 - Aug. 2019 in Seattle & Remote -​ Editorial Assistant to owner, Laura Chrisman; led project archiving all poetry published in the journal between 1969 and the present; assisted with researching marketing, advertising, and fundraising opportunities for the journal New York Times Bestselling Author, David Shields, Aug. 2018 -Oct. 2019 in Seattle & Remote -​ Worked with team of research assistants to proofread and fact-check book, Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, out now; was lead Quote/Fact-Checker on Chapters 4 and 5; Proofread and fact-checked McSweeney’s article written by Shields; Assisted with research on his recent film release Lynch: A History; First-reader on screenplay adaptation of his book, That Thing You Do With Your Mouth PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

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American Studies Association, Joined February 2025 Liberatory Jewish Studies Network, Joined September 2024 Association for Jewish Studies, Joined December 2020 Sigma Tau Delta - English Honor Society, Inducted Spring 2020 Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US (MELUS), Joined December 2019 Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2017- Present

NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES: -​

Academic proficiency in French, Spanish, Yiddish

REFERENCES: Dr. Dorian Bell, Associate Professor, UCSC department of Literature -​ Email: dbell1@ucsc.edu -​ Phone: (215) 840-7542 Dr. Vilashini Cooppan, Professor, UCSC department of Literature -​ Email: vcooppan@ucsc.edu -​ Phone: (831) 278-0515 Dr. Sophia Azeb, Assistant Professor, UCSC department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies -​ Email: sazeb@ucsc.edu -​ Phone: (213) 222-3898