Belén Bistué completed her undergraduate program in Spanish and Classics at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Davis. She worked for ten years as Tenured Researcher for the Argentine Research Council (CONICET) at the Comparative Literature Center of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, where she also taught English and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on collaborative and multilingual translation techniques used in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. She pays special attention to the...
Dr. McQuade's background represents a wide range of literary and philosophical works from globally diverse writers. She earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne and a M.A in English Literature from UC Berkeley. She enjoys teaching and continues to explore new and emerging writers in Comparative Literature.
'Ireland/Mexico: Literary Relations', Ph.D. Dissertation 'The Relation of Geography to the Human Mind', M.A Thesis 'Home Base', 'Spinning Top' - Stage Plays
Jocelyn Saidenberg earned her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on ancient Greek, Latin, and contemporary Anglophone poetry and is informed by her interests in linguistics, social anthropology, and psychoanalysis. Her dissertation, Echo Otherwise, an elaboration of Lucretius’s atomic poetics, explores the relationship between didactic poetry’s transformational capacity and sonic and linguistic patterning. She also writes on contemporary poetry and art and has several published collections of poetry....
Christopher is the Lecturer of Modern Greek Literature & Language at UC Berkeley. Ongoing research in the fields of modern Greek poetry, postwar Italian cinema, and psychoanalysis addresses the turn in modern aesthetics to Greek rituals of mourning to help fathom historically specific forms of violence and loss in the twentieth century. His book manuscript in progress, titled Ash, Bone, Dirt, Stone: Destruction and the Aesthetics of Survival in Greek Literature, focuses on works written in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange alongside Freud's theory...
