Alejandra Decker is a Ph.D candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures and a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is on 19th century Latin American and Latinx literatures, science, and technology, with a special focus on mining literature and...Read more about Alejandra Decker
Alejandro Múnera is a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Critical Theory Program. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Alejandro was an Erasmus Fellow at the Lateinamerika-Institute from the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
His research and teaching focus on...Read more about Alejandro Múnera
Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet, and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues, and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being...Read more about Alex Saum-Pascual
Amir received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Language and Literature from Boston University in 2020. His dissertation On the Edge: Liminal Space in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós was honored with the award for Best Doctoral Thesis in 2020 by the Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (...Read more about Amir Effat
Ana Claudia Simão de Oliveira Lopes is a Ph.D. student in Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and in the Critical Theory Program. She completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Berkeley, graduating with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, and was awarded the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha...Read more about Ana Claudia Lopes
Anahit Manoukian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. Her research and teaching bridge the early modern and modern periods, with a particular emphasis on the long eighteenth century,...Read more about Anahit Manoukian
Anna Knall is a PhD student in the Linguistics track of the Romance Languages and Literatures program at UC Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics and Political Science (2024) from the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a senior thesis on...Read more about Anna Knall
Anthony J. Cascardi (B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University), works on literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory, and early modern literature, with an emphasis on Spanish, English, and French. He teaches courses on Cervantes, literature and philosophy, aesthetic...Read more about Anthony Cascardi
Aziza (they/them) is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Spanish & Portuguese Department. Their research focuses on questions of Blackness, sexuality, gender and liberation in the context of the 19th and 20th century Spanish Caribbean and Brazil. Aziza's work often involves explorations of...Read more about Aziza Baker
I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Student Instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. I am a sociolinguist with additional training in critical sociology. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with B.A.s in Linguistics and Spanish. My current research...Read more about Ben Papadopoulos
Ph. D., Stanford University, 1975. (Professor) Research interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture; Latin American folk and popular traditions.Read more about Candace Slater
Yale University, B.A. in Latin American Studies (1963) ΦBK, Summa cum laude; M.Phil. (1969), Ph.D. (1969) in Romance Philology. University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature (1966). Research interests: Medieval Spanish literature, digital humanities, codicology...Read more about Charles Faulhaber
Graduate StudentRead more about Chloe Berger
Coral Murphy Marcos is a PhD student in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She holds a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, where she studied Journalism. She completed a master’s degree in Journalism at the University of California
Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Her research centers on hemispheric American literatures, literary exchanges, and anticolonial activism, with a focus on migrations, border crossings, and linguistic exchange. Her book project...Read more about Daniella Cádiz Bedini
Daylet Domínguez (PhD Princeton University) is an Associate Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture, with special emphasis on travel cultures and costumbrismo; empire, nation and...Read more about Daylet Domínguez
Delia Neyra Tercero is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. She holds an M.A. in Spanish from Berkeley (2018), a B.A. in English and a B.A. in Spanish from Saint Mary's College of California (2013, magna cum laude). Her research interests include 20th and...Read more about Delia Neyra Tercero
Derek Allen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture with a Designated Emphasis in Film. His courses taught at UC Berkeley include: “Introduction to Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-Speaking Cultures,” “Reading and Composition: Postcolonial
Lecturer and Assistant Director of Language Instruction. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley (2012) and a teaching degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She teaches and coordinates Spanish 3 and 4, while also occasionally teaching upper division...Read more about Donna A. Southard
Department Chair Estelle Tarica (PhD Comparative Literature, Cornell, 2000) is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures and a former Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching cover a diversity of topics: colonial and modern...Read more about Estelle Tarica
Francine Masiello holds the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities (Emerita) at the University of California, Berkeley. With a long career as a Latin Americanist, she has...Read more about Francine Masiello
Gabriel Lesser is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. His dissertation is about racial satire, caricatures, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil. He received a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation grant to conduct archival research in 2023. Prior to...Read more about Gabriel Lesser
Gabriela C. “Gabi” Rodríguez Lebrón is a PhD student in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She holds a B.A. from Colgate University, where she studied Spanish Literature and History. She completed two theses, one on nature in Garcilaso de la Vega’s poetry (High Honors) and...Read more about Gabriela C. "Gabi" Rodríguez Lebrón
Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, especially poetry, narrative, and poetics; literary theory. Ph. D., Indiana University, 1985. I have just finished a book on narrative culture c. 1520, as reflected in the printing of narrative works, ranging from saints’ lives to...Read more about Ignacio Navarrete
Associate Professor of Colonial Studies. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004, and before returning to the Bay Area in 2009, she taught at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching make connections between the past and the present which try to show the relevance of the...Read more about Ivonne del Valle
Education: University of California, Berkeley, 9/61-6/65, Ph.D. 6/67
Research: historical grammar of Spanish, medieval Spanish literature, colonial literature of the Southwest.
Publications
Romance Philology, Volume 60 (...Read more about Jerry Craddock
Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently teaches in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley and was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA. Specializing in Spanish...Read more about Jhonni Carr
Jonathan Jones-Edwards is a PhD student in the Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) program. He holds a BA in Foreign Languages with a concentration in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese (2016) and a MA in Romance Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish (2021) both from the...Read more about Jonathan Jones-Edwards
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. Spanish Linguistics, Romance linguistics, SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education).
Research Expertise and Interests
Sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language...Read more about Justin Davidson
Graduate Student
Liam G. Seeley is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He holds an A.B. in Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures from Princeton University. His research focuses on contemporary vegetal aesthetics, visual culture, and world-making in/beyond Latin...Read more about Liam Seeley
Luis Amaya Madrid is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He received his BA in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Arizona and his MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Guelph. He is interested in Latin American literature,...Read more about Luis Amaya Madrid
Luis Enrique Barco (him, his, él) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. He...Read more about Luis Barco
Lydia Millhon is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in New Media. She completed her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and received her B.A. with Honors in...Read more about Lydia Millhon
Marguerite Morlan is a Ph.D. student in the Romance Languages and Literatures program. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, as well as an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from New Mexico State University. Her research...Read more about Marguerite Morlan
She earned her M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame and her B...Read more about Maria Ochoa Villicana
Undergraduate Major Advisor
Maxwell earned a B.A. in French and Spanish from Marquette University and a M.A. in Spanish Literature From the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Schedule a 30-minute meeting here:...Read more about Maxwell Moloney
Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th-21st centuries). Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Comparative and Transatlantic Hispanic Studies. Literature and geopolitics. Aesthetics and ideology. Critical Theory. Visual culture....Read more about Michael Iarocci
Dr. Hernández-Rodríguez received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in applied linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was a recipient of two teaching awards. She obtained her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics with a designated emphasis in Second Language...Read more about Miriam Hernandez Rodriguez
My name is Miroslava Guzmán Pérez. I am a third year PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. I obtained my Master of Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literatures here at Cal in May 2021. I had previously completed a triple major in Spanish, French, and Comparative Literature...Read more about Miroslava Guzmán Pérez
Education
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, University of Virginia (2017)
M.A., Hispanic Studies, Villanova University (2013)
B.A., Spanish Literature, Damascus University, Syria (2011)
Research Interests
Medieval & Early Modern Iberian...Read more about Nasser Meerkhan
Natalia's work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, ...Read more about Natalia Brizuela
Nathaniel Wolfson is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Affiliated Faculty of the Program in Critical Theory. He teaches modern and contemporary Brazilian literature and visual culture in a comparative mode. His teaching and research focus on literature, visual art, media and...Read more about Nathaniel Wolfson
Raúl Coronado is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. His teaching and research interests are in Latina/o literary and intellectual history, from the colonial period to the 1940s. In a sense, this field and period allow—indeed force—us to rethink the...Read more about Raúl Coronado
Riley VanMeter is a Ph.D. Student in Romance Languages and...Read more about Riley VanMeter
Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and serves as the Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media,...Read more about Tom McEnaney
I'm a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics. My current research at Cal focuses on the phonetics and phonology of U.S. Spanish as well as language attitudes and ideologies of U.S. Spanish speakers. As a sociolinguist I seek to apply my findings toward validating U.S. Spanish and increasing its...Read more about Verónica Grajeda
