Graduate Students

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

Miroslava Guzmán Pérez

My name is Miroslava Guzmán Pérez. I am a third year PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. I obtained my Master of Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literatures here at Cal in May 2021. I had previously completed a triple major in Spanish, French, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2018. My research lies broadly in Colonial Mexico and Nahuatl. More specifically I am interested in the process of translation from oral stories and traditions into Spanish as well as pictographs into standard western signs.

Annie Helms

Annie Helms is a PhD candidate in the Romance Languages and Literature program. Her research interests include bilingual/trilingual phonetics and phonology, experimental and computational methods, and the production-perception link. She focuses primarily on Spanish, English, and Catalan in the US and in Spain. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she earned her B.S. from Baylor University with a double major in chemistry and Spanish.

Recent Publications

Bleaman, Isaac, Katie Cugno & Annie Helms. (In Press). Medium shifting and...

Gabriel Lesser

Gabriel Lesser is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. His dissertation is about racial satire, caricatures, and nation-building in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil. He received a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation grant to conduct archival research in 2023. Prior to starting his doctorate, Gabriel earned his B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and worked at the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. At UCB, he has taught classes in both Spanish and Portuguese.

Lydia Millhon

Lydia Millhon is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures UC Berkeley. She completed her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and received her B.A. with Honors in Spanish at Wake Forest University. She wrote her M.A. thesis on considerations of Caribbean identity through artworks produced in Cuba and Puerto Rico across two temporal focuses in the present and the 1950s. Her research interests include the intersection of the visual and the literary, in primarily Cuba and Spain, for the study of colonial relations...

Maria Guadalupe Lilly

mlilly@berkeley.edu