Graduate Students

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

Thomas 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

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: 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.

Laila Riazi

Laila comes to Berkeley with a BA in Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she graduated summa cum laude. For her translation of Etel Adnan’s short story, l’Oeil Noir, she received the Emerging Translator Award from the Los Angeles Review of Books (2022). Her research and writing have been supported by FLAS, the Critical Theory Program, the Psychosocial Foundation, Breadloaf, Yefe Nof, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. She is a recipient of the UC Dissertation Fellowship (2025-2026)....