Roni Masel works on Hebrew and Yiddish literatures and studies them in the context of modern Jewish history and culture in Eastern Europe, the history of reading and history of the book, and queer and postcolonial theory. Masel is currently completing a book manuscript titled Bad Readers: Misreading, Mistranslation, and Other Textual Malpractices in Hebrew and Yiddish, which explores Jewish literatures in Eastern Europe from the perspective of reading and para-literacy, nationalism and dissent. The book reflects on what it means to accuse someone of being a bad reader, how...
Tom McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies. He is the current Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and serves on the Executive Board of...
Ramsey McGlazer writes about twentieth-century European and Latin American literature, film, and critical theory. He works in Italian, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with research interests in poetry and poetics, politics and aesthetics, critical carceral studies, and feminist, queer, and psychoanalytic theory.
Dr. McQuade's background represents a wide range of literary and philosophical works from globally diverse writers. She earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne and a M.A in English Literature from UC Berkeley. She enjoys teaching and continues to explore new and emerging writers in Comparative Literature.
'Ireland/Mexico: Literary Relations', Ph.D. Dissertation 'The Relation of Geography to the Human Mind', M.A Thesis 'Home Base', 'Spinning Top' - Stage Plays
James Monroe works in the areas of lyric poetry, the Middle Ages, and East-West relations with particular interest in the importance of the Arab contribution to Spanish civilization. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of Arabic literature with special emphasis on its Hispano-Arabic component, including Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition: Music and Texts, with Benjamin M. Liu, and The Art of Badi az-Zaman al-Hamadhani as Picaresque Narrative. (Ph.D., Harvard University).
Website: https://marymussman.myportfolio.com/ Languages: English, French, Ancient Greek, Latin Periods: 19th–20th century British and French; archaic and classical Greek Academic Area: Victorian and Modernist literatures; sexuality and transgender studies; Classical reception
Mary Mussman researches literary histories of gender variance and queer sexuality in Britain and France, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For the 2024–2025 academic year, they are a Visiting Professor at Deep Springs...
Eric Naiman – Slavic Languages and Literature (Russian) – works in the fields of ideological poetics, sexuality and history, Soviet culture, the gothic novel. Teaching and research interests include Nabokov, Platonov, Law and Literature, University Fiction, Dostoevsky and Bakhtin. His most recent book is Nabokov, Perversely. He is also the author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology, and the co-editor of two collections of articles: Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia and The Landscape of Stalinism. His work has appeared in Comparative Literature,...
I'm a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and the D.E. in Critical Theory working on modern Anglo-American, French and Latin American literatures. My dissertation, The Literary Origins of the Middle Class in Argentina (1885-1946), is a study of the category known as the middle class, its emergence in literary culture, and the transformation of Argentine society from a binary to a three-part structure. My aim in the dissertation is twofold: to understand how dynamics of class composition find their way into the content and form of important literary texts, and to show how these...
Languages: Korean, French, Vietnamese Periods: 20th and 21st Century Academic Area: critical disability studies, gender & sexuality, feminist science & technology studies Rachel Min Park is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the status of the body in Cold War Korea and Vietnam, paying particular attention to the relationship between violence, popular culture, and disability. She also works as a translator from Korean to English and...
Languages: Spanish, with reading ability in Portuguese and French Periods: Late nineteenth and early twentieth century Academic Area: Food studies, U.S., Latin American literatures
Tara joined the department of Comparative Literature in 2015. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She studies U.S. and Latin American literatures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from a food studies perspective. She is interested in the relationship between the history of food production, race, empire, and aesthetics.
Beth Piatote is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of two books: the scholarly monograph Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and the Law in Native American Literature (Yale 2013), which received honorable mention from the Modern Language Association for the 2014 Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages; and the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize for...
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Spanglish, & English Periods: 20th & 21st Centuries Academic Area: Marxism, Indigenous Cosmolectics, Central American Studies, Latinx/Chicanx Studies, B.A.s Literatures in Spanish & Latin American Studies, UC San Diego. Scorpio sun, Sagittarius moon, and Cancer rising.Selected Publications: González Reyes, Christián. “La otra cara, State Aggressions, and Reflections on Mayan Autonomy in Guatemala.” Latino Book Review, vol. 3, no.1, Feb.-Mar. 2021
