Graduate Students

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...

Ata Sunucu

Languages: Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, English, German, French Academic Area: Poetry, rhythm & meter, diurnal/seasonal periodicity, sensory experience, visual arts, translation

Mary Vitali

Gianna Ward-Vetrano

Languages: Italian, French

Ziang Wei

Tessa Wood

Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English, Catalan Periods: 19th-21st centuries Academic Area: Spanish American and Brazilian literatures; hemispheric American studies; educational theory in Latin America; the novel; critical race and gender studies B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Madeline Zimring

Languages: French, German, Norwegian, Italian Madeline received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley (2017), and a Mst from Trinity College, Oxford in Modern Languages (2019). She has worked as a language assistant in Paris and as a lecturer in the English faculty at the Université de Grenoble-Alpes, teaching courses on literary translation.