People

Maxwell Moloney

Undergraduate Major Advisor

Maxwell earned a B.A. in French and Spanish from Marquette University and a M.A. in Spanish Literature From the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Niko Schwarz

My name is Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta. I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literature on track 3 (the linguistics track). My research primarily focuses on phonetics and speech perception with an emphasis on perceptual adaptation. Please refer to my website for more information. Personal website: https://schwarzacosta.com/

Almadora Henry

Financial Analyst 5315 Dwinelle Hall gspa_acct@berkeley.edu

Anna Knall

Anna Knall is a PhD student in the Linguistics track of the Romance Languages and Literatures program at UC Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Linguistics and Political Science (2024) from the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a senior thesis on grammatical gender assignment strategies among Spanish-English bilinguals during code-switching. Her current research interests focus on sociolinguistic aspects within diaspora Romanian communities, particularly how contact between Romanian and other Romance varieties influences the phonetic and...

Arthur Askins

Professor Emeritus alfa@berkeley.edu

Julián Vargo

Julian Vargo is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at UC Berkeley. He holds a B.A. Linguistics and B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from UC Berkeley (Highest Distinction). Research Interests: Phonetics Phonetics-phonology interface Sociolinguistics Language Contact Language Revitalization Contact: julianvargo@berkeley.edu 5102 Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA...

Anna Rodas

Visiting Lecturer 5222 Dwinelle Hall arodas@berkeley.edu Office Hours: M, W 9:15-10:15 am

Aziza Baker

Aziza (they/them) is a second-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.

5114 Dwinelle Hall
azbaker@berkeley.edu

Luis Barco

5115 Dwinelle Hall lbarco@berkeley.edu Office Hours: T, W 11-12 pm

Luis Enrique Barco (him, his, él) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. He holds an M.A. in Hispanic Languages & Literatures from UC Berkeley, a B.A in Spanish and a BA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American narrative, performance, and visual art; historical memory, truth...

Donna A. Southard

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...