People

Nasser Meerkhan

Education
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, University of Virginia (2017)
M.A., Hispanic Studies, Villanova University (2013)
B.A., Spanish Literature, Damascus University, Syria (2011)

Research Interests
Medieval & Early Modern Iberian literature
Women writers of Medieval Iberia and the Middle East
Historiography in Medieval Iberia
Semitic maqamat
Don Quixote

Publications
“False Hopes and Flawed Sainthood in Don Quixote: Khiḍr, Al-Mahdī, and the Knight of the Green Coat.” Hispanic...

Chloe Mauvais

5102 Dwinelle Hall chloe.mauvais@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 9-10 am, Th 1-2 pm

Ana Claudia Lopes

Ana Claudia Simão de Oliveira Lopes is a Ph.D. student in Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and in the Critical Theory Program. She completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature at Berkeley, graduating with Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, and was awarded the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellowship for outstanding academic achievements. While completing her degree, she worked as a Research Apprentice on a project about pilgrimages in the Northeast of Brazil and wrote a thesis on comparative language structures in the works of Brazilian authors Osman Lins and Clarice Lispector. During the...

Jonathan Jones-Edwards

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...

Clélia Donovan

Senior Lecturer Director of the Portuguese Language Program 5220 Dwinelle Hall cleliadonovan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: W 2:30-3:30 pm, F 9-10 am or by apptm.

Daylet Domínguez

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 Hispanic Caribbean. It...

Daniella Cádiz Bedini

Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. Her research centers on hemispheric American literatures, literary exchanges, and anticolonial activism, with a focus on migrations, border crossings, and linguistic exchange. Her book project, tentatively titled Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century, examines diverse modes of translation that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work in the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dani's writing and reviews have...

Natalia Brizuela

Natalia's work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to modern state formation, nationalism, modernization and race. The second, ...

Chloe Berger

Graduate Student

Coral Murphy Marcos

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...