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 interests include early modern and modern Iberian literatures and cultures, intellectual and imperial history, eighteenth-century theater, civic identity, geopolitics, and transatlantic studies. Her dissertation “From Subjects to Citizens: The Construction of Civic Identity in Spain” traces the emergence of civic consciousness in Spain from its beginnings in late seventeenth-century cultural productions to its legal codification in the 1812 Constitution of Cádiz.
Anahit is an experienced teacher of Spanish language, as well as of a diverse range of literature and culture courses spanning from the early modern to the modern period. She is a recipient of the 2023-2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award at UC Berkeley.