People

Marguerite Morlan is a Ph.D. student in the Romance Languages and Literatures program. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, as well as an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics from New Mexico State University. Her research explores language attitudes and identity in the Catalan Countries. She employs mixed-methods approaches in both sociolinguistics and linguistic landscape studies.

Lecturer and Assistant Director of Language Instruction. She 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 dissertation, Francisco Rivero Gil: A...

Aziza (they/he) is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Spanish & Portuguese Department. Their research focuses on questions of Blackness, sexuality, gender and liberation in the context of the 19th and 20th century Spanish Caribbean and Brazil. Aziza's work often involves explorations of the larger processes of Afro-Latine identity and/or resistance movements that are intricately linked to West African histories and cultures.

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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...