Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education


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  • Jeremy Sabol

    Jeremy Sabol

    SLE Associate Director

    BioJeremy Sabol is the Associate Director of Stanford's Program in Structured Liberal Education (SLE), where he has taught as a Lecturer since 2003. Jeremy majored in physics and literature as an undergraduate, then received his Ph.D. in French. His dissertation examined the conceptual role of fiction in Descartes' physics and philosophy, as well as the impact of this use of fiction in later 17th-century French literary texts. Jeremy specializes in early modern European thought and French existentialism. Jeremy also teaches the history & ethics of design at Stanford's d.school, and he has lectured for Stanford's Master of Liberal Arts program since 2012.

  • Gabriela Lila Salvidea

    Gabriela Lila Salvidea

    SLE Lecturer

    BioGabriela Salvidea is a Lecturer for Structured Liberal Education. She earned a B.A. from Whitman College in 2010, majoring in philosophy and minoring in English. She earned her M.A. in English at Stanford University in 2016, and then her Ph.D., also from Stanford English, in 2023.

    Gabriela’s research centers on postwar and contemporary American literatures, which she defines broadly to include certain texts written by academic humanists. She focuses on historicizing the politics of university culture—its research and its pedagogical practices—by studying texts which exist between the cultures of creative and scholarly writing, a kind of writing she treats as distinctive to the 20th and 21st centuries.

    She has done editorial work for Bitch Magazine and, more recently, Commune Magazine and Endnotes Journal. She also, for a time, dabbled in news reporting. Before coming to Stanford, she served as a corps member in Teach for America, teaching for Green Dot Public Schools in Los Angeles. She then taught for the Oakland Unified School District and for the Friends School in Ramallah, Palestine. Before her work in public schools, she was a a social worker who managed a shelter for unhoused women in rural Washington.​

  • Kim Savelson

    Kim Savelson

    Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Design Thinking for Writing & Research; Science and Health Communication; Storytelling; Creativity Studies; Innovation Across the Disciplines

  • Sam Sax

    Sam Sax

    Lecturer

    BioSam Sax is a writer, performer, and educator currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University. They're the author of Yr Dead (a novel), Long listed for the National Book Award, and Pig named one of the best books of 2023 by New York Magazine and Electric Lit. They're also the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, The Poetry Foundation, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.

  • Lynn Sokei

    Lynn Sokei

    Lecturer

    BioLynn Sokei holds a PhD in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University.

  • Cristian Felipe Soler Reyes

    Cristian Felipe Soler Reyes

    COLLEGE Lecturer

    BioCristian Felipe Soler Reyes received a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Studies from Stanford University in 2023. His research looks at different Latin American art forms (painting, sculpture, cinema, literature, etc.) from the last 30 years with a transnational, cross-cultural, and transdisciplinary lens.

    Cristian also chairs “Comics: More than Words,” a research group that is not only a hub for interdisciplinary thought, but also fosters diversity. Students from different backgrounds come together in this space to learn from each other and to exchange their different perspectives.

  • Jennifer Stonaker

    Jennifer Stonaker

    Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Electronic Portfolios; Science Communication; Science Storytelling

  • Lisa Marie Swan

    Lisa Marie Swan

    Advanced Lecturer

    BioLisa Swan teaches writing courses. She has served as the PWR 1 Coordinator supporting the curricular, pedagogical, and professional development of the first year writing requirement and developed a summer bridge writing course and a support workshop for students who are first generation college students, from low-income backgrounds, or attended underresourced schools. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she taught at the University of Maryland and Northern Virginia Community College. At Stanford, her writing class themes have focused on educational equity, comics and graphic novels, the future of cities, and student voice. Her research interests include writing studies, composition and reading pedagogies, curriculum design, and qualitative research methods.