Graduate Students

Paz Regueiro

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

Christián González Reyes

Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Spanglish, & English Periods: 20th & 21st Centuries Academic Area: Marxism, Indigenous Cosmolectics, Central American Studies, Latinx/Chicanx Studies, B.A.s Literatures in Spanish & Latin American Studies, UC San Diego. Scorpio sun, Sagittarius moon, and Cancer rising. Selected Publications: González Reyes, Christián. “La otra cara, State Aggressions, and Reflections on Mayan Autonomy in Guatemala.” Latino Book Review, vol. 3, no.1, Feb.-Mar. 2021

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...

Gladys Rivas

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2:30pm PST Languages: Spanish, Russian, French (reading knowledge) Periods: 20th/21st Century

Courses:

English 166/Slavic 134 -- Nabokov, Fall 2019 (GSR for Eric Naiman)
Comlit R1A -- Seeing Things: Specters and the Intermundane, Fall 2020 (Co-Instructor with Max Kaisler)
Comlit 60AC --Boroughs and Barrios, Spring 2021 (GSI for Karina Palau)

Caitlin Scholl

Abigail Schott-Rosenfield

Academic Area: Modern poetics Languages: English, Arabic, French Periods: 20th and 21st centuries

Danielle Stephenson

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11am, and by appointment Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese Periods: 20th and 21st centuries Academic Area: Black Diaspora Studies

Danielle Stephenson is a writer, musician, and third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature, specializing in twentieth-century literature, music, and critical theory of the Black diaspora. Working with texts and media in English, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese, her writing asks questions of abolition and solidarity, with interests in surrealism, Afrofuturism, affect theory, the...

Haley Stewart

Languages: Spanish, French, English, German, Luxembourgish Periods: 19th, 20th & 21st centuries Academic Area: Latin American literatures, Latin American art, environmental art and literature Courses: "Dreamers, Crackpots and Lunatics" - Reading and Composition Course Fall 2020
"Idleness and Insubordination" - Reading and Composition Course Spring 2021
Spanish 2 - Spanish Language Course Fall 2021

Evan Strouss

PhD Candidate
Office: Dwinelle 4319 Office Hours: M 10-12 Languages: German, Italian, French, Latin Academic Area: Renaissance & Early Modern Studies; Sound Studies; 18th Century Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Evan Strouss came to Berkeley in the fall of 2018 after receiving his BA in German Studies and Comparative Literature from Brown University, and his MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. His dissertation, "Distant Voices: Vocal Philology in Early Modernity," examines the German folk song tradition in a period spanning 1523-1779. He argues therein that voice takes on a...