Graduate Students

Jose Miguel Alvarado

Gianluca Bufo

Languages: English, French, Italian.
Academic interests: Poetry and poetics, queer and critical theory, psychoanalysis.

Frank Cahill

Languages: English, Japanese, German, Ancient Greek, Latin

Diego Calderon

Languages: English, Spanish, French

Academic interests: Latin American literature, French Continental philosophy, Critical Theory, archive studies, state violence.

Cole Carvour

Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese Periods: 20th and 21st Century francophone African and Central American literatures Academic Area: Feminism, Affect, Postcolonial Theory

Albert Castro

Languages: French, Spanish, Ancient Greek, English

Maxwell Chapin

Languages: English, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French Academic Interests: Latin American Literature, Phenomenology, Classical Philosophy, Surrealism.

Thom Chowers

Thom Shalom Chowers joins Berkeley from NYU, where she earned her MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies as a Taub Center Fellow. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Anna Dini

Anna Dini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about frame tale collections, and her dissertation is entitled The Role of Performance in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights. Her interests include narratology, orality, gender, and the question of authorship. Her research brings together medieval Italian literature and its relationship to the Arabic tradition, performance theory, and Mediterranean studies.

While at UC Berkeley, Anna has taught for the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Italian...

Hannah Frakes

Languages: English, German, French, Biblical Greek Academic Area: religious mysticism, theology, feminisms, visual art, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis