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Maxwell Moloney

Undergraduate Advisor

PORTFOLIO: Undergraduate student guidance and orientation; major, double major, and minor planning and declaration; study abroad course and requirements planning. Instructor support including enrollment management, course scheduling, room reservations. Course Catalog and Academic Guide updates.

Maxwell earned a B.A. in French and Spanish from Marquette University in 2018 and a M.A. in Spanish Literature From the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2020.

Anahit Manoukian

Ph.D. Candidate

Anahit Manoukian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese with a Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. Her research and teaching bridge the early modern and modern periods, with a particular emphasis on the long eighteenth century, identity and belonging, nation-building, imperial and intellectual history, transatlantic and comparative studies, and geopolitics.

Her dissertation “From Subjects to Citizens: The Construction of Civic Identity in Spain” traces the emergence of civic consciousness in Spain from its...

Alex Saum-Pascual

Associate Professor

Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet, and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues, and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Digital Humanities Quarterly, among others. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from UC Berkeley's Hellman Fund...

Angeli Valiente Franchini Presents on the First Colloquium on Guaman Poma at University of Florida

March 6, 2026

Dr. Rocio Quispe Agnoli

Angeli joined 26 scholars from around the world on the First Colloquium on Guaman Poma at University of Florida, exploring the 1615 manuscript through the interdisciplinary lens of literature, art history, history, and archaeology.

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/paolauparela/guaman-poma-uf/

New book: "We're Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond"

March 9, 2026

Stikky in Isocracy's confetti. Photo by Murray Bowles

In We're Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of riotous...

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780325/were-having-much-more-fu…

Professor Alex Saum-Pascual Joins Global Experts in Spain to Address Gender Bias in AI at Government Summit

March 20, 2026

Professor Alex Saum-Pascual recently participated as a featured speaker in the international summit "El poder del trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos: Reinventando el empleo digno," a high-level event hosted in Madrid by the Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.

Held on March 4 and 5, 2026, under the leadership of Yolanda Díaz, the Second Vice President of the Government of Spain, the conference gathered global experts to address the critical intersection of labor rights and emerging AI technologies.

Professor Saum-Pascual contributed her expertise to a specialized round...

https://www.youtube.com/live/GUJEpzTp_Pc?t=12483s.

Laura Barber

Ph.D. Student

Laura Barber is a third year PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese with a Designated Emphasis (D.E.) in Critical Theory. She received her B.A. in Spanish and English from Indiana University and studied abroad at the University of Havana in 2020 where she completed a capstone project on feminism and popular culture in Cuba. She is broadly interested in debates around racial capitalism and internationalist solidarity between the U.S. and Cuba during the revolution. Her current research focuses on the poetry, essays, and personal documents of Lourdes Casal, an Afro-Cuban...

Derek Allen

Ph.D. Candidate

Derek Allen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture with a Designated Emphasis in Film. His courses taught at UC Berkeley include: “Introduction to Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-Speaking Cultures,” “Reading and Composition: Postcolonial Identities in Luso-African Literature and Film”, and “Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers.” He is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.

He received his M.A. in Portuguese from Indiana University, where he was also an Associate Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese language...

Daniella Cádiz Bedini

Assistant Professor

Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She teaches and writes on literature of the Americas, literary exchanges, empire, political terror, and anticolonial activism. Her book project, tentatively titled Dream Awake: Empire, Race, and Translation in Nineteenth-Century Americas, examines diverse modes of translation that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work. A second book project looks to political terror and the gothic in Latin America.

Dani's writing and reviews have...

Chloe Mauvais

Graduate Student

Chloé Mauvais is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds an M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley (2023) and a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from NYU (2020). Chloé researches how Latin American artists and writers grapple in their work with changing ideas of nature and climate. She is especially interested in how changes in literary form reflect changing ecologies. She is currently tracking the epistemological differences in nature, climate, and the human evolving as a response to...