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Wendi Bootes
Email: wbootes@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: modernism, the novel, colonial/postcolonial studies, critical theory, literature and philosophy
Languages: English, Russian, German
Periods: 19th and 20th centuries
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Frank Cahill
Academic Area: history of sexuality, queer theory, philology, education
Languages: Japanese, German, English, Ancient Greek, Latin
Cole Carvour
Email: cole_carvour@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Feminism, Affect, Postcolonial Theory
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese
Periods: 20th and 21st Century francophone African and Central American literatures
Matteo Cavelier Riccardi
PhD Candidate
Academic Area: Psychoanalysis, Film and Media (DE), Socialist China, Postwar Italy
Languages: Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Periods: 20th Century
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Paul de Morais
Email: pdemorais@berkeley.edu
Languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Periods: 18th & 19th centuries
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Hannah Frakes
Email: hannah_frakes@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: religious mysticism, psychoanalysis, feminisms, visual art, continental philosophy
Languages: English, German, French, Biblical Greek
Ryan Frankel
Email: ryanfrankel@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Literature and Philosophy
Languages: English; French; Japanese
Periods: 20th Century
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Marlena Gittleman
Email: mgittleman@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Hemispheric American, Latin American, Global South, Feminisms & Queer Theory, Performance Studies, Translation
Languages: Spanish, English, Catalan, Portuguese, French
Periods: Late-19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century
Christián González Reyes
Email: gonzalezchris178@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Marxism; Critical Race Theory; Decolonial & Liberatory Theory & Praxis; Memory & Trauma Studies; Indigenous Cosmolectics; Critical Migration & Refugee Studies; Critical Ethnic Studies
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, & English
Periods: 20th & 21st Century Central American and Chicanx/ U.S. Latinx Literature
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Layla Hazemi
Email: lhazemi@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Performance Studies; Queer Theory; Cultural and Postcolonial Studies; Race and Performance; the musical
Languages: English, Japanese, Persian (Farsi)
Periods: 20th Century
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Max Kaisler
Email: max_kaisler@berkeley.edu
Languages: English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek
Periods: Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Medieval/Elizabethan/Renaissance Drama, 1800s up to the present
Landon Kramer
Email: landon_kramer@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Symbolism, decadence, aestheticism, modernism
Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek
Madeleine Kresin
Languages: Russian, English, Norwegian
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Dinah Lensing-Sharp
Graduate Student Instructor
Email: dinah_lensing-sharp@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: German Literature, French Literature, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Translation
Languages: German, French, Spanish
Periods: 19th and 20th centuries
Alexander Lin
Email: ajlin@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Romantic/Post-Romantic literatures; poetics; Marxist theory; negative theology; psychoanalysis
Languages: German, Japanese, English, Chinese, French, Latin
Periods: 18-20th century
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Harry Mizumoto
Email: hmizmoto@berkeley.edu
Languages: Japanese, German, English, Russian
Periods: Post-WWII, modernism
Mary Mussman
Email: mary.mussman@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Victorian and Modernist literatures; sexuality and transgender studies; Classical reception
Languages: English, French, Ancient Greek, Latin
Periods: 19th–20th century British and French; archaic and classical Greek
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Rachel Park
Email: rachel.park33@berkeley.edu
Languages: Korean, French, Vietnamese
Periods: 20th and 21st Century
Tara Phillips
PhD Candidate
Academic Area: Food studies, U.S., Latin American literatures
Languages: Spanish, with reading ability in Portuguese and French
Periods: Late nineteenth and early twentieth century
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Kyle Ralston
Academic Area: History of historiography, critical theory, intellectual history, philosophy of history, Roman history, classical reception, history & literature
Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, German
Periods: Greek & Roman Antiquity, 19th Century Germany
Laila Riazi
Email: laila_riazi@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Critical Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Psychoanalysis; Photography and Visual Studies
Languages: English, French, Arabic, Persian
Periods: 20th & 21st centuries
Gladys Rivas
Email: gladysrivas@berkeley.edu
Languages: Spanish, Russian, French (reading knowledge)
Periods: 20th/21st Century
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Thomas Sliwowski
PhD Candidate
Email: thom.sliwowski@berkeley.edu
Languages: German, Polish, French, some Russian
Periods: 19th and 20th century
Haley Stewart
Email: haley_stewart@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Latin American literatures, Latin American art, environmental art and literature
Languages: Spanish, French, English, German, Luxembourgish
Periods: 19th, 20th & 21st centuries
Kevin Stone
Candidate
Academic Area: Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Queer Theory
Languages: Major: English, German; Minor: French, Yiddish, Russian
Periods: 20th century
Evan Strouss
PhD Candidate
Email: evan_strouss@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Renaissance & Early Modern Studies; Sound Studies; 18th Century Studies; Lyric Poetry; Theater
Languages: German, Italian, French, Latin
Ata Sunucu
Email: asunucu@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Poetry, rhythm & meter, diurnal/seasonal periodicity, sensory experience, visual arts, translation
Languages: Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, English, German, French
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Tessa Wood
Email: tessawood@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Latin American literatures; hemispheric American studies; cultural interaction with structural inequalities; the novel; gender and sexuality
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan
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Yana Zlochistaya
Email: yana.zlochi@berkeley.edu
Academic Area: Translation theory and practice, narrative theory, children's literature, urban humanities
Languages: Russian, English, French, currently learning Spanish