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
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
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
Ana Luíza is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is situated in literary and cultural...Read more about Ana Luiza Kehdi
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
Angeli Valiente Franchini is a PhD student and a Chancellor Fellow in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She completed a B.A. at UC Berkeley with majors in Comparative Literature and in Spanish and Portuguese (Highest Honors), along with a minor in Creative Writing. As an...Read more about Angeli Valiente
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
1st-year Graduate StudentRead more about Astur Agún
Astur is a PhD student, recipient of the Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study. Born in Asturias, Northern Spain, he holds a Double Major in Political Science and Sociology from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Master of Arts in Literary Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He...Read more about Astur Agún Alvarez
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
Claudia Martínez Rivera is a Puerto Rican PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Master...Read more about Claudia Martínez Rivera
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 and teaching center on Latin American and hemispheric American literatures, literary exchanges, and anticolonial activism, with a focus on migrations, border crossings, and...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
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
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
PORTFOLIO: Management of department staff, budget, accounting & finances, events, grants management, facilities, websites and general operations...Read more about Gregory Pollet-Young
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
Jackson Ribler is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Born in Miami, FL, he graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in International Studies and Spanish. He earned a master’s in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote his...Read more about Jackson Ribler
PORTFOLIO: Human Resources support for faculty and visitors, management of recruitments and advancements, GSI, lecturers & visiting professors...Read more about Jamila Leaks
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 teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates linguistic social justice and the...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
Julian Vargo is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics.
His research interests include phonetics, phonology, language revitalization, language contact, and sociolinguistics...Read more about Julián Vargo
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
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
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
Undergraduate Major Advisor
PORTFOLIO: Undergraduate student guidance and orientation; major, double major, and minor planning and declaration; study abroad course and requirements planning. Instructor support including enrollment management...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
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's teaching and research focus on literature, visual art, media and critical theory, especially of Brazil and Latin America. Among his research interests are poetry and poetics, politics and aesthetics, translation, anthropology, critical media studies, and post-colonial theory....Read more about Nathaniel Wolfson
Paulina León researches and teaches on the cultural history of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America, with a particular focus on plague literature and medical cultures. She is also interested in historiography, book history and material culture, autobiographical writing, and poetry....Read more about Paulina León
Raúl Coronado is an Associate Professor and holds joint appointments in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of English 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...Read more about Raúl Coronado
Riley VanMeter is a Ph.D. Student in Romance Languages and...Read more about Riley VanMeter
PORTFOLIO: Graduate admission information and procedures, fellowships, student guidance, academic progress, exam assistance, degree completion, committees, Graduate...Read more about Sebastião Edson Macedo
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
