Graduate Students

Astur Agún Alvarez

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 is especially interested in narration and its different forms as fundamental to human life, as well as in potential reflections on an on-going chronotope contraction.

From a multidisciplinary approach, his current research mainly focuses on Spain and the contemporary cultural artifacts that...

Ana Luiza Kehdi

Graduate Student 5117 Dwinelle Hall ana.kehdi@berkeley.edu

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 studies, with interests in twentieth-century and contemporary Brazilian literature and culture, Indigenous literatures, Ecocriticism, and Theories of Capitalism and Modernity. She holds an MA in Literary Theory and History, and a BA in Languages and Literatures from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP),...

Angeli Valiente

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 undergraduate, she was awarded the Tollefson Prize for her nonfiction piece “My Peruvian Face” (Ellipsis Art & Literature), which informed her honors thesis. Her research led her to the Amazon Jungle where she examined how national hegemonic narratives conceal the systemic oppression of minority groups...

Claudia Martínez Rivera

Graduate Student 5118 Dwinelle Hall cpmartinezr@berkeley.edu

Claudia Martínez Rivera is a Puerto Rican PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Master of Arts in English Literature Specialized in Feminist and Gender Studies from the University of Ottawa, for which she completed a thesis titled Yo digo lo que me da la gana: Using Spanglish Translational Strategies to Redefine Puerto Rico in the Poetry of Roque Raquel Salas Rivera. She also...

Julián Vargo

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Julian Vargo is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics.

His research interests include phonetics, phonology, language revitalization, language contact, and sociolinguistics. His work focuses on vowels, vowel dispersion, suprasegmental phonetics, and vocalic timing in several languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Ladino, and Kalaallisut.

Julian currently serves as a graduate student researcher for the Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California Corpus. He is the...

Laura Barber

5116 Dwinelle Hall laura_barber@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M, T 11-12 pm

Liam Seeley

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 America and Brazil. Drawing on decolonial feminist scholarship and his own involvement in seed farming and rematriation, he is especially interested in dream, breath, and seeds as sites of cosmopolitical sovereignty and resistance amidst colonial modernity.

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Jackson Ribler

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 qualifying paper “Wrestling with Conventions of Género: ‘Cassandro’ and the Queer Male Celebrity Biopic.” He later served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at the UNAM Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán in Naucalpan, Estado de México. His research focuses on the Mexican Dirty War and the New...

Gabriela C. "Gabi" Rodríguez Lebrón

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 another on texts written by Medieval female mystics (Honors). Her research interests include, but are not limited to Garcilaso de la Vega, Renaissance lyric (specifically bucolic poetry across traditions), the literary representations of nature, the Early Modern period, the history of ideas, mythology...

Chloe Mauvais

5102 Dwinelle Hall chloe.mauvais@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 12-1 pm, W 2-3 pm