RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Ren Heintz is an Associate Professor in the English Department and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at Cal State LA. Dr. Heintz received their Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego (2015), and their MA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the English Department, Dr. Heintz was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pomona College and they held a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tulane University. Dr.

Joseph Lucey-Renteria is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). He completed his postdoctoral training as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellow at the U.S.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Juan Pedro Lamata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California State University-Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in Literature from Stanford University in 2020. Dr. Lamata specializes in early modern literature in English and Spanish, with a special focus on the interplay between emergent capitalist social relations and literary form.

Assistant Professor of Engineering Education

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Introduction

Research Interest:

Professor Renee Grodsky

I'm proud to be part of the CSULA English faculty. I love meeting new students and working to help them become better writers and stronger critical thinkers. Originally from St. Louis, I've lived in L.A. since graduating college and think I might just stay. 

My Educational Background

B.F.A. in Filmic Writing from USC

Single Subject Teaching Credential in English from CSULA

Masters in English from CSULA

Creative Writing, Fiction, Nonfiction

Kate Maruyama is the author of The Collective (Writ Large Press 2023), Bleak Houses (RDS Press), Halloween Beyond A Gentleman's Suit (Crystal Lake Publishing) and Harrowgate (47North.) Her novella Family Solstice (Omnium Gatherum) was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine.

Her literary novel Alterations is due out from Running Wild Press March of 2025.