Graduate Students

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

5116 Dwinelle

amunera@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: T, Th 10:00-11:00AM

Alejandro Múnera is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in...Read more about Alejandro Múnera

ana.lopes@berkeley.eduRead more about Ana Lopes

5115 Dwinelle

amanoukian@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: M 9:00-10:00AM, Th 11:00-12:00AMRead more about Anahit Manoukian

Annie Helms is a PhD candidate in the Romance Languages and Literature program. Her research interests include bilingual/trilingual phonetics and phonology, experimental and computational methods, and the production-perception link. She focuses primarily on Spanish, English, and Catalan in...Read more about Annie Helms

I am a fourth-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

cgama@berkeley.edu

Catarina is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures – Luso-Brazilian track. She holds an M.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a B.A. in...Read more about Catarina de Morais Gama

chloeberger@berkeley.eduRead more about Chloe Berger

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

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete is a PhD student in the Hispanic Linguistics program. He completed his undergraduate studies at Pomona College, with a double major in Spanish and linguistics. Ernesto is interested in bilingualism and Spanish in the US. At UC Berkeley, he focuses on his areas...Read more about Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete

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

Gabriella Licata (she/they) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Linguistics and Gender, Women, and Sexuality studies at UC Berkeley. Her research uses raciolinguistic and intersectional frameworks to understand how standard language ideologies influence perceptions of language and people....Read more about Gabriella Licata

I received my BA in Foreign Languages with a concentration in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese in 2016 and my MA in Romance Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish in 2021 from the University of Memphis. My current research interests include comparative and contrastive...Read more about Jonathan Jones-Edwards

5114 Dwinelle Hall

lorenamancilla@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: W 12-2 pmRead more about Lorena Mancilla

BioRead more about Luis Amaya Madrid

lbarco@berkeley.eduRead more about Luis Barco

5118 Dwinelle

gentile@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: M, W 11:00AM-12:00PMRead more about Luisina Gentile

Lydia Millhon is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures UC Berkeley. 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 Spanish at Wake Forest University. She wrote her M.A....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

mlilly@berkeley.eduRead more about Maria Guadalupe Lilly

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

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

Mônica Carvalho Gimenes is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. She holds an M.A. in Spanish and a B.A. in Multimedia Studies: Journalism from Florida Atlantic University. Her teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin...Read more about Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

yeseblanco@berkeley.eduRead more about Yesenia Blanco