People

Milena Britto

Visiting Scholar 5223 Dwinelle Hall mbritto@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T 2:15-4:15 pm

Emilie Bergmann

Professor Emerita 5229 Dwinelle Hall elb@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T 2-3 pm or by appointment

Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and serves on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and the Executive Board of UC Cuba. His work emphasizes the connections between Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, the history of media and technology, sound studies, linguistic...

Miriam Hernandez Rodriguez

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...

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, ...

Tanya Varela

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

B.A. in Spanish & Political Science from UC Davis

M.A. in Spanish Literature from the New York University in Spain Program.

Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures from UC Berkeley.

Academic interests: Spanish language instruction, Modern Latin American novel and short story, Latin-American avant-garde, women writers, gender representation in literature and film, cultural studies, instructional technology, translation.

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Ana Redondo Campillos

Lecturer 5231 Dwinelle Hall redondo.campillos@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M W 11-12 pm and by appointment

Clelia Donovan

Lecturer Director of the Portuguese Language Program 5220 Dwinelle Hall cleliadonovan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30, W 2-3 pm (or by appointment)

Tessa Wood

Tessa Wood is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and the program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on nineteenth- through twenty-first-century Spanish American and Brazilian literatures, with particular interest in the relationship between the novel, racial and gender formations, and theories of education in Latin America. She holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard College.

Román Luján

Lecturer 5212 Dwinelle Hall romanlujan@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T, Th 12-1 pm, or by appointment