Graduate Students

Thomas Maude-Griffin

Harry Mizumoto

Languages: Japanese, German, English, Russian Periods: Post-WWII, modernism

Mary Mussman

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...

Cory Nguyen

Academic Area: Lyric Studies, Sound Studies, Law, Paleography Languages: French, Latin, Old Occitan Periods: Medieval

Pedro Hurtado Ortiz

I am a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature working on 19th-21st century 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...

Rachel Min Park

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...

Joseph Rager

Paz Regueiro

Languages: English, Spanish, French. Periods: 20th and 21st century.

Laila Riazi

Languages: English, French, Arabic, Persian Periods: 20th & 21st centuries Academic Area: Critical Theory; Translation; Visual Studies; Poetics; Psychoanalysis

Matteo Cavelier Riccardi

PhD Candidate
Languages: Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese Periods: 20th Century Academic Area: Psychoanalysis, Film and Media (DE), Socialist China, Postwar Italy

Matteo studied Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at Brown University, where he wrote a thesis on the China travel narratives of Curzio Malaparte and Tiziano Terzani. At UC Berkeley, he is preparing a dissertation on the impact of Italian Neo-Realism on PRC, ROC and Hong Kong culture from the 1950s to the 2000s. He is also interested in the films of the Late Maoist era and how they influenced China's Fourth...