Graduate Students

Ata Sunucu

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

Saniya Taher

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.

Yana Zlochistaya

Languages: Russian, English, French, currently learning Spanish Academic Area: Translation theory and practice, narrative theory, children's literature, urban humanities Yana received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley in 2017, after which she worked as an English teacher in Paris through the Centre international d'études pédagogiques and as a reading teacher for the Institute of Reading Development. She began her Ph.D in 2019, studying the sociopolitical role of translation in the USSR. In addition to her academic work, she also serves as the co-director and speakers...