People

Dr. Hernández-Rodríguez received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in applied linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was a recipient of two teaching awards. She obtained her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics with a designated emphasis in Second Language Acquisition from the University of California, Davis (2011). Throughout her career, she has worked with Chicago’s Heritage Language Teacher CORPS teaching, training, and evaluating graduate student teachers. She has collaborated in the design and implementation of the bilingual teacher preparation...

Raúl Coronado is an Associate Professor and holds joint appointments in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of English at UC Berkeley. His teaching and research interests are in Latina/o literary and intellectual history, from the colonial period to the 1940s. In a sense, this field and period allow—indeed force—us to rethink the literature of the Americas in a transnational, hemispheric framework. That is, Latina/o literature has usually been described as a twentieth-century phenomenon, emerging for the most part during the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s...

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: Reiterations of Empire 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 appeared or are...

Thomaz Amancio researches and teaches Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures. His work is particularly concerned with the dialogue between literature and the social sciences in connection to the countryside in Brazil. Other areas of interest include critical animal studies, the environmental humanities, and the cultural history of hunger.

Thomaz received a B.A. and an M.A. from Unicamp (Brazil) and a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago. He is a co-founder of the Saudade Working Group, an initiative...