People

Jose Rabasa

Professor Emeritus

Jhonni Carr

Lecturer of Spanish Linguistics

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates linguistic social justice and the power dynamics of displayed languages in the public space of California, Mexico, and Brazil. She uses interdisciplinary methods to explore these areas’ signage (linguistic landscape) and residents’ attitudes toward the presence and absence of different languages. Dr. Carr has also...

Jerry Craddock

Professor Emeritus

Education: University of California, Berkeley, 9/61-6/65, Ph.D. 6/67

Research: historical grammar of Spanish, medieval Spanish literature, colonial literature of the Southwest.

Publications

Romance Philology, Volume 60 (2006) Homage Issue. Special Combined Issue of Romance Philology In Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Romance Philology: A homage volume dedciated to Jerry R. Craddock, containing a selection of his obra dispersa on Romance historical linguistics.

Palabra de rey: selección de estudios sobre legislación alfonsina. Volumen ofrecido...

Ignacio Navarrete

Professor

Ignacio Navarrete, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, especially poetry, narrative, and poetics; literary theory. Ph. D., Indiana University, 1985. I have just finished a book on narrative culture c. 1520, as reflected in the printing of narrative works, ranging from saints’ lives to the Celestina. The project thus triangulates the history of the book, narrative theory, and close reading. Earlier research focused on Italo-Iberian cultural relations, and on a series of phenomena (Petrarchism, courtiership, narrative theory) that can be seen as...

Francine Masiello

Professor Emerita

Francine Masiello holds the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities (Emerita) at the University of California, Berkeley. With a long career as a Latin Americanist, she has published on topics ranging from avant-garde movements to a representation of the senses across the Global South. The intersections of gender and cultural history inform most of her work. Of her eleven books, three won prizes from the Modern Language Association and the Latin American Studies Association. Masiello has recently completed her first novel, The Tomb of...

Estelle Tarica

Department Chair, Professor

Department Chair Estelle Tarica (PhD Comparative Literature, Cornell, 2000) is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures and a former Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching cover a diversity of topics: colonial and modern ideologies of race and nation in Latin America; Indigenous expression in the Andes and Mesoamerica; human rights discourses and memory debates after the Cold War; Jewish Latin America; and Holocaust consciousness in global perspective. Her first book,...

Emilie Bergmann

Professor Emerita

Dru Dougherty

Professor Emeritus

Donna A. Southard

Lecturer, Assistant Director of Language Instruction

Donna A. Southard, Lecturer and Assistant Director of Language Instruction, holds a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley (2012) and a teaching degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She teaches and coordinates Spanish 3 and 4, while also occasionally teaching upper division literature courses. As a BLC Fellow, she has developed film modules for the language curriculum. Her research focuses on the interactions between graphic art and textual expression in pre-Civil War Spain. She is currently working on the Spanish translation of her...

Daylet Domínguez

Associate Professor

Daylet Domínguez (PhD Princeton University) is an Associate Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture, with special emphasis on travel cultures and costumbrismo; empire, nation and revolution; slavery, race and colonialism, among other topics. Her book, Ficciones etnográficas: literatura, ciencias sociales y proyectos nacionales en el Caribe hispano del siglo XIX (Iberoamericana 2021), studies the interplay of literature and science in nineteenth century...