People

Arturo Dávila

Visiting Professor

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);...

Daylet Domínguez

Associate Professor

Daylet Domínguez (PhD, Princeton University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She is a scholar of Caribbean and Latin American literature and culture, with research interests in Caribbean geopolitics, transnational networks, and hemispheric cultures; travel cultures, costumbrismo, and the intersections between literary and scientific traditions; empire, nation, and revolution; and slavery and plantation cultures.

Her first book, Ficciones etnográficas: literatura, ciencias sociales y proyectos...

Verónica Grajeda

Ph.D. Student

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-...

Luisina Gentile

Ph.D. Student

Jonathan Jones-Edwards

Ph.D. Student

Jonathan Jones-Edwards is a PhD student in the Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) program. He holds a BA in Foreign Languages with a concentration in Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese (2016) and a MA in Romance Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish (2021) both from the University of Memphis. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he was an English-Spanish medical interpreter at Regional One Health in Memphis, TN. His current research interests include sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language contact, as well as cross-linguistic studies of Romance and non-Romance...

Anna Knall

Ph.D. Student

Anna Knall is a PhD student in the Linguistics track of the Romance Languages and Literatures program at UC Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics and Political Science (2024) from the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a senior thesis on grammatical gender assignment strategies among Spanish-English bilinguals during code-switching. Her current research interests focus on sociolinguistic aspects within diaspora Romanian communities, particularly how contact between Romanian and other Romance varieties influences the phonetic and morphosyntactic...

Isaac McQuinn

Graduate Student

Coral Murphy Marcos

Ph.D. Student

Coral Murphy Marcos is a PhD student in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She holds a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, where she studied Journalism. She completed a master’s degree in Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Her master’s thesis was published in Mother Jones magazine, where she wrote about the rise of a far-right political party in Puerto Rico. She has also written for The New York Times, The Associated Press, National Public Radio, The Guardian, El País, The Nation magazine, and other publications. Her research...

Lydia Millhon

Ph.D. Student

Lydia Millhon is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and CLACS Graduate Affiliate with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. At UC Berkeley, she previously worked on the editorial board of Lucero and currently co-organizes the Contemporary Cuban Studies working group. Her research surveys intellectuals and literary practices in Cuba and Brazil, highlighting Black authorship and articulations of race in cultural production. She examines poetry and visual art from the movements of Negrismo to Concretismo in these countries to unveil Afro-diasporic...

Victoria Robertson

Lecturer