Thomaz Amancio researches and teaches Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures. His work is particularly concerned with the dialogue between literature and the social sciences in connection to the countryside in Brazil. Other areas of interest include critical animal studies, the environmental humanities, and the cultural history of hunger.
Thomaz received a B.A. and an M.A. from Unicamp (Brazil) and a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago. He is a co-founder of the Saudade Working Group, an initiative...
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, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno(link is external) (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to...
Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She teaches and writes on literature of the Americas, literary exchanges, empire, political terror, and anticolonial activism. Her book project, tentatively titled Dream Awake: Reiterations of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Americas, examines diverse modes of translation that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work. A second book project looks to political terror and the gothic in Latin America.
Dani's writing and reviews have appeared or are...
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, this field and period allow—indeed force—us to rethink the literature of the Americas in a transnational, hemispheric framework. That is, Latina/o literature has usually been described as a twentieth-century phenomenon, emerging for the most part during the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s...
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 contact, language variation and change, Romance linguistics, quantitative methods (statistics, variable rule analyses for sociolinguistics, and computer software for statistics), sociohistorical linguistics, sociophonetics, bilingualism, Catalan, Spanish, dialectal diversification, non-English language pedagogy.
ARTURO DÁVILA is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Laney College, Oakland, and the founder of the Latinx Cultural Center. He also teaches in the Summer Program in Mexico at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures. He specializes in colonial literature (Amerindian perspectives on the conquest of Mexico) and contemporary Latin American and Chicano literature. He has received four poetry awards: La ciudad dormida (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Mexico, 1995);...
Agustín De Jesús holds a Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Culture from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. He brings extensive teaching experience from diverse academic institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and Hunter College.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
“Literatura cubana escrita desde New York: Exilio, isla y mujer en la poesía de Lourdes Gil”. Entre islas...
Daylet Domínguez (PhD, Princeton University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture, with research interests in Caribbean geopolitics, transnational networks, and hemispheric cultures; travel cultures, costumbrismo, and the intersections between literary and scientific traditions; empire, nation, and revolution; and slavery and plantation cultures.
Her first book, Ficciones etnográficas: literatura, ciencias sociales y proyectos...
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.
Books
Enrique Gil y la genealogía de la lírica moderna (Juan de la Cuesta, 1999).
Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe and the Legacies of Empire (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006).
2022 M.A. Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics), University of New Mexico
2020 B.A. Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture, Minor in Linguistics, University of Colorado Denver
Research interests
Usage-based theory, child language acquisition, bilingualism, language variation, language change, corpus linguistics, Spanish in the U.S., phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, quantitative methods...
