Graduate Students

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

Jamari Littlejohn

Jamari is a first year PhD student in Comparative Literature. Their interests are centered on literary connections between Chinese and Afro-diasporic writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Their work draws on sociolinguistics and political, critical, and post-colonial theories to interrogate constructions of identity and liberation and draw out insights to modern globalizing activism.

Languages: English (AAL), Chinese

Periods: 20th and 21st Centuries

Emma Lloyd

Emma is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature. She works between film and literature, and Spanish, English, and Portuguese, with a focus on Latin America. Before coming to Berkeley, she worked at Safe Passage Project, an immigration justice organization based in New York City.

Emmais a literary translator whose translation work ranges from crónicas, poetry, oral testimonies, and occasionally film subtitles. She is the translator of Guardianas: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade (APRA)...

Jacob Malone

Thel Maude-Griffin

Harry Mizumoto

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

Cory Nguyen

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

Rachel Min Park

Languages: Korean, French, Vietnamese Periods: 20th and 21st Century Academic Area: transnational disability studies, gender & sexuality

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. Focusing on Cold War South Korea and South Vietnam, her research examines popular cultural works as an archive of bodily pain—one that allows us to rethink the violence of war from the extraordinary to the ordinary. She also works as a translator from Korean to English and...

Joseph Rager

Paz Regueiro

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