People

Natalia Brizuela

Professor

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(link is external) (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to...

Michael Iarocci

Professor

Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th-21st centuries). Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Comparative and Transatlantic Hispanic Studies. Literature and geopolitics. Aesthetics and ideology. Critical Theory. Visual culture.

Books

Enrique Gil y la genealogía de la lírica moderna (Juan de la Cuesta, 1999).

Properties of Modernity: Romantic Spain, Modern Europe and the Legacies of Empire (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006).

The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's...

Daylet Domínguez

Associate Professor

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...

Charles Faulhaber

Professor Emeritus

Yale University, B.A. in Latin American Studies (1963) ΦBK, Summa cum laude; M.Phil. (1969), Ph.D. (1969) in Romance Philology. University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature (1966). Research interests: Medieval Spanish literature, digital humanities, codicology, paleography.

Selected Publications

PhiloBiblon. General Editor. 1.1–. Berkeley: University Library, 1997– [including: Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos (BETA), Bibliografia de Textos Catalans Antics (BITECA), and Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses (...

Estelle Tarica

Department Chair, Professor

Department Chair Estelle Tarica (PhD Comparative Literature, Cornell, 2000) is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures and a former Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching cover a diversity of topics: colonial and modern ideologies of race and nation in Latin America; Indigenous expression in the Andes and Mesoamerica; human rights discourses and memory debates after the Cold War; Jewish Latin America; and Holocaust consciousness in global perspective. Her first book,...

Jhonni Carr receives The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award

May 15, 2025

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is pleased to announce that Dr. Jhonni Carr has been awarded The Arts & Humanities Teaching Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate student teaching.

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates linguistic social justice and the power dynamics of displayed languages in the public space of...

"Translating Oral Traditions": Department Hosts Conversation with Pedro Cesarino and Katrina Dodson

February 21, 2025
Translating Oral Traditions

March 17, 5 - 7 p.m.

Spanish & Portuguese Library - 5125 Dwinelle Hall

This event is a public conversation on the topic of oral traditions and translation between translator Katrina Dodson (Visiting Professor, Spanish and Portuguese) and anthropologist and fiction author Pedro Cesarino ( Spanish and Portuguese’s 2025 Brazilian Writer-in-Resident). It is moderated by Natalia Brizuela and organized by Nathaniel Wolfson.

Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice...