Graduate Students

Lianbi Ji

Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Wu Chinese, classical Chinese, Spanish (Latin America), Hindi Academic Area: Literary Translation, Multilingualism, Migration, Asian American Literature, "Chinese" & Southeast Asia

Max Kaisler

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...

Landon Kramer

Office: Dwinelle 4414 Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 Languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish Academic Area: Symbolism, decadence, aestheticism, modernism

Alexander Lin

Languages: German, Japanese, English, Chinese, French, Latin Periods: 18-20th century Academic Area: Romantic/Post-Romantic literatures; poetics; Marxist theory; negative theology; psychoanalysis