Graduate Students

Chloe Berger

Graduate Student

Coral Murphy Marcos

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, Berkeley. Her master’s thesis was published in Mother Jones magazine, where she wrote about the rise of a far-right political party in Puerto Rico. She has also written for The New York Times, The Associated Press, National Public Radio, The Guardian, El País, The Nation magazine, and other publications. Her research...

Niko Schwarz

My name is Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta. I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literature on track 3 (the linguistics track). My research primarily focuses on phonetics and speech perception with an emphasis on perceptual adaptation. Please refer to my website for more information. Personal website: https://schwarzacosta.com/

Anna Knall

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 grammatical gender assignment strategies among Spanish-English bilinguals during code-switching. Her current research interests focus on sociolinguistic aspects within diaspora Romanian communities, particularly how contact between Romanian and other Romance varieties influences the phonetic and...

Julián Vargo

Julian Vargo is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at UC Berkeley. He holds a B.A. Linguistics and B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from UC Berkeley (Highest Distinction). Research Interests: Phonetics Phonetics-phonology interface Sociolinguistics Language Contact Language Revitalization Contact: julianvargo@berkeley.edu 5102 Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA...

Aziza Baker

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 the larger processes of Afro-Latine identity and/or resistance movements that are intricately linked to West African histories and cultures.

5114 Dwinelle Hall
azbaker@berkeley.edu

Luis Barco

5115 Dwinelle Hall lbarco@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T, W 11-12 pm

Luis Enrique Barco (him, his, él) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures from UC Berkeley, a B.A in Spanish and a BA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American narrative, performance, and visual art; historical memory, truth...

Yesenia Blanco

yeseblanco@berkeley.edu

Delia Neyra Tercero

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 21st century Central American literature with an emphasis on poetry, women and gender studies and diaspora studies. Delia's dissertation examines contemporary Central American and U.S. Central American women's poetry and prose (2001-2018), and explores how these texts grapple with the aftermath of...

Jair Jáuregui Torres

Jair is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. He received his BA in Spanish and Art History, with a minor in Education, from the University of California, Davis in 2021, while also working as a tutor and peer advisor for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His main research interest is the relationship between literature and the visual arts, including ekphrasis, iconicity, and art criticism, from Latin America mainly during the late 19th to the early 20th centuries.