Carla Freccero Fellowship

Carla Freccero, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, was a beloved colleague and a formidable intellectual presence across many fields, as attested by her three books, three edited collections/special issues, and nearly eighty articles and book chapters. She was the recipient of multiple prizes, grants, and honors.

A dynamic teacher and mentor, Professor Freccero was passionately devoted to the training and welfare of graduate students. Rigorous and caring, she served on dozens of doctoral and masters degree committees at UC Santa Cruz and elsewhere. As Chair and as Graduate Director in Literature and in History of Consciousness, she worked tirelessly to create or sustain sources of support—intellectual, financial, professional—for all the students whose lives she touched.

The Carla Freccero Fellowship provides summer support for graduate students working in one of her areas of interest, including Animal Studies, Feminist/Gender/Queer Studies, Popular Culture, Pre- and Early Modern Studies (especially French and Italian), Speculative Fiction/Futures, Theory (Continental, Marxist, Psychoanalytic). Preference is given to students at any stage of dissertation writing, but particularly those nearing completion. This award is administered by The Humanities Institute, continuing Professor Freccero’s commitment to supporting graduate research in these fields.

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Photos of Carla Freccero and winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures at the 2025 Amending Worlds exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, courtesy of West Cliff Creative.