Graduate Students

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.

Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

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 American narrative, crime fiction, body politics, transnational feminisms, and decolonial theories. Her dissertation examines femicidal violence and feminist resistance in the Southern Cone (including Brazil). She has conducted pre-dissertation research in Brazil and in Portugal, and she has presented...

Marguerite Morlan

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 explores language attitudes and identity in the Catalan Countries. She employs mixed-methods approaches in both sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies.

Chloe Berger

Graduate Student

Aziza Baker

Aziza (they/he) is a first-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.

5102 Dwinelle Hall
azbaker@berkeley.edu

Ulysses Galvez

Graduate Student

Welcome to my page! My name is Ulysses Galvez, and I am Ph.D. Student in the Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL henceforth) program, linguistics-focused. Upon graduating from the University of Washington, Seattle campus with my double major in Spanish and Linguistics, I set my sights high to study here to pursue what I had considered my lifelong pursuit and passion: languages. Languages provide us with the very working framework of knowledge itself and afford us the ability to share knowledge with others. Moreover, through language, we can laugh...

Luis Amaya Madrid

Luis Amaya Madrid is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He received his BA in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Arizona and his MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Guelph. He is interested in Latin American literature, Indigenous studies, and digital humanities.

Laura Barber

Graduate Student

laura_barber@berkeley.edu

Isaac McQuinn

5102 Dwinelle Hall isaac_mcquinn@berkeley.edu

Benito López Romero

5102 Dwinelle Hall bmlopezr@berkeley.edu