Max Kaisler

Bio/CV: 
Languages: English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Polish, Old & Middle English
Max Kaisler comes to Berkeley with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English and Classics from Amherst College. She has won multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. She was awarded a Folger Fellowship to research Seneca’s influence on madness and medicine in revenge tragedy at the Folger Shakespeare Library and received the Greta Wrolstad Travel Award to explore ancient and modern sites of the oracular in Italy. Her work investigates operations of atmospheric reading from the ancient to the modern world.
Selected Publications: 
-"Tableau Vivant" on the Academy of American Poets website
-"The Sun House" in The Amherst Magazine

Instructor and Research Assistant:
-English 204 at Mount Tamalpais College in San Quentin Prison, 2022

Tutor:
-State Correctional Institute Greene in Waynesburg, 2023

Graduate Student Instructor:
-Media and Realism, COM LIT 190, Spring 2023
-Boroughs and Barrios, W60AC, Summer 2022
-There Are More Things, COM LIT R1B, Spring 2022
-Just a Touch of Magic, COM LIT R1A, Fall 2021
-Phantoms of Contagion, COM LIT R1B, Summer Sessions 2021
-Seeing Things: Specters and the Inter-mundane, COM LIT R1A, Fall 2020
-Phantoms of Contagion, COM LIT R1B, Summer Sessions 2020
-Incognito: Tricksters, Confidence-Artists, and Cases of Mistaken Identity, COM LIT R1A, Spring 2020
-Phantoms of Contagion, COM LIT R1A, Fall 2019
-Phantoms of Contagion, COM LIT R1B, Summer Sessions 2019
-Who Remembers the Sea? Waves of Memory and Mourning, COM LIT R1B, Spring 2019
-Literary Borderlands, COM LIT R1A, Fall 2018

Reader/TA:
-History of Paris, FRENCH 80, Fall 2023
-Medieval and Elizabethan Drama, ENG 114A, Spring 2023
-Auteurs of Anime, FILM 172, Fall 2022
-Rhetoric of the Image, RH 137, Fall 2022
-Film History and Form, FILM 10, Spring 2022
-17th Century Drama, ENG 114B, Fall 2021
-Anime, COM LIT 20, Spring 2021
-Japanese and Transnational Asian Film and Media, FILM 145/JAPANESE 188, Spring 2021
-Age of Crisis, ENG 166, Fall 2020
-The Short Story, ENG 180H, Spring 2020
-Auteurs of Anime, FILM 151/JAPANESE 188, Fall 2019
-Literature and Philosophy, ENG 177, Fall 2019
-Japanese Cinema, FILM 160/JAPANESE 185, Fall 2018
-Greek Tragedy, CLASSICS 35/THEATER 126, Spring 2017

Research interests: 

Literature & science; studies in atmosphere; art, environment, & culture of the 18th & long 19th-century; Victorian studies; Romanticism; Realism; Surrealism; Ancient Greek and Roman studies; history of art, film & popular media

Role: 
Graduate Students

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