People

Victoria Robertson

Lecturer

Julio Ramos

Professor Emeritus

Emilie Bergmann

Professor Emerita

Oscar Perea Rodriguez

Lecturer

Milton Azevedo

Professor Emeritus

Román Luján

Lecturer

Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor, Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media

Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and serves as the Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and a Co-Director of UC Cuba. His research emphasizes the connections between...

Raúl Coronado

Associate Professor


Raúl Coronado is an Associate Professor and holds joint appointments in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of English at UC Berkeley. His teaching and research interests are in Latina/o literary and intellectual history, from the colonial period to the 1940s. In a sense, this field and period allow—indeed force—us to rethink the literature of the Americas in a transnational, hemispheric framework. That is, Latina/o literature has usually been described as a twentieth-century phenomenon, emerging for the most part during the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s...

Paulina León

Assistant Professor

Paulina León researches and teaches on the cultural history of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America, with a particular focus on plague literature and medical cultures. She is also interested in historiography, book history and material culture, autobiographical writing, and poetry.

She holds a B.A. in History from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) and a Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies from the University of Chicago. Her work has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the John Carter Brown Library, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at...

Nathaniel Wolfson

Associate Professor

Nathaniel's teaching and research focus on literature, visual art, media and critical theory, especially of Brazil and Latin America. Among his research interests are poetry and poetics, politics and aesthetics, translation, anthropology, critical media studies, and post-colonial theory. He is Affiliated Faculty of the Program in Critical Theory and the Berkeley Center for New Media.

His book Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic...