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Liam G. Seeley is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil. He holds an A.B. in Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Literatures from Princeton University. His research focuses on atmospheric media and air in the de/composition of the colonial-modern Brazilian archive. He is also interested in mud, mourning, seeds, humming, thimbleberries, and the peculiar roundness of bumblebees.

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-...

ARTURO DÁVILA is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages ​​at Laney College, Oakland, and the founder of the Latinx Cultural Center. He also teaches in the Summer Program in Mexico at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate in Romance Languages ​​and Literatures. He specializes in colonial literature (Amerindian perspectives on the conquest of Mexico) and contemporary Latin American and Chicano literature. He has received four poetry awards: La ciudad dormida (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Mexico, 1995);...

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...