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Katie Oliver

Business Operations and Events Coordinator

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Academic Personnel Coordinator

PORTFOLIO: Human Resources support for faculty and visitors, management of recruitments and advancements, GSI, lecturers & visiting professors appointments, coordination of visas, benefits, and payroll. HR policies and procedures.

Ignacio Navarrete

Professor

Ignacio Navarrete, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature, especially poetry, narrative, and poetics; literary theory. Ph. D., Indiana University, 1985. I have just finished a book on narrative culture c. 1520, as reflected in the printing of narrative works, ranging from saints’ lives to the Celestina. The project thus triangulates the history of the book, narrative theory, and close reading. Earlier research focused on Italo-Iberian cultural relations, and on a series of phenomena (Petrarchism, courtiership, narrative theory) that can be seen as...

Candace Slater

Professor

Ph. D., Stanford University, 1975. (Professor) Research interests: Brazilian Literature and Culture; Latin American folk and popular traditions.

Riley VanMeter

Ph.D. Student

Riley VanMeter is a Ph.D. Student in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Romance Languages (2023) and a B.A. in International Business and Spanish (2022, Summa cum laude) from The University of Alabama. His research interests include morphosyntactic change and variation, grammaticalization, quantitative and experimental methodology, sociolinguistics, comparative Romance linguistics/grammars, historical (socio-)linguistics, languages in contact, and corpus linguistics.

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Shulin Liu

Ph.D. Student

New York University, BA with Honors in Linguistics

UC Berkeley, PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics
Research interests: Variationist sociolinguistics, quantitative sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language variation and change, multilingual speech communities, contact linguistics, Galician linguistics, Spanish in contact, third wave sociolinguistics, social perception.

Miroslava Guzmán Pérez

Ph.D. Candidate

My name is Miroslava Guzmán Pérez. I am a third year PhD student in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. I obtained my Master of Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literatures here at Cal in May 2021. I had previously completed a triple major in Spanish, French, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2018. My research lies broadly in Colonial Mexico and Nahuatl. More specifically I am interested in the process of translation from oral stories and traditions into Spanish as well as pictographs into standard western signs.

Luis Amaya Madrid

Ph.D. Student

Luis Amaya Madrid is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He received his BA in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Arizona and his MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Guelph. He is interested in Latin American literature, Indigenous studies, and digital humanities.

Karol Alzate

Ph.D. Candidate

Karol Alzate Londoño is a PhD Candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese program at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her MA in Peacebuilding from La Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and completed her undergraduate degree in History and Literature at Harvard University. Prior to starting her PhD, Karol worked for various non-profit and political organizations, including the Colombian Truth Commission. Her work focuses on Black riverine geographies in the Caribbean and Pacific Coasts of Colombia.

Jackson Ribler

Ph.D. Student

Jackson Ribler is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Born in Miami, FL, he graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in International Studies and Spanish. He earned a master’s in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote his qualifying paper “Wrestling with Conventions of Género: ‘Cassandro’ and the Queer Male Celebrity Biopic.” He later served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at the UNAM Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán in Naucalpan, Estado de México. His research focuses on the Mexican Dirty War and the New Left,...