I'm a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics. My current research at Cal focuses on the phonetics and phonology of U.S. Spanish as well as language attitudes and ideologies of U.S. Spanish speakers. As a sociolinguist I seek to apply my findings toward validating U.S. Spanish and increasing its legitimacy in educational settings. I received my B.A. in French and Linguistics at UCLA and subsequently received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. I spent the next 9 years teaching English as a second language, followed by Spanish and French in the California K-...
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.
My name is Nikolai Andrés Schwarz. I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the HispanicLanguages and Literature on track 3 (the linguistics track). I received a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. My research interests primarily lie in phonetics and psycholinguistics, specifically investigating these topics in Caribbean varieties of Spanish that have been underrepresented in the phonetics and psycholinguistic literature. My previous and current work at UBC has focused on speech-processing bilinguals and Spanish speakers in the Speech...
Tessa Wood is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and the program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on nineteenth- through twenty-first-century Spanish American and Brazilian literatures, with particular interest in the relationship between the novel, racial and gender formations, and theories of education in Latin America. She holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard College.
Alejandra Decker is a Ph.D candidate in Hispanic Languages & Literatures and a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is on 19th century Latin American and Latinx literatures, science, and technology, with a special focus on mining literature and scientific writing in postcolonial Mexico. She has taught Spanish language and literature courses for both heritage speakers and foreign language learners.
She earned her M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame and her B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include the colonial period, twenty-century literature, and women representations.