Graduate Students

Jose Miguel Alvarado

Frank Cahill

Languages: English, Japanese, German, Ancient Greek, Latin

Cole Carvour

Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese Periods: 20th and 21st Century francophone African and Central American literatures Academic Area: Feminism, Affect, Postcolonial Theory

Albert Castro

Languages: French, Spanish, Ancient Greek, English

Thom Chowers

Thom Shalom Chowers joins Berkeley from NYU, where she earned her MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies as a Taub Center Fellow. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Anna Dini

Anna Dini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about frame tale collections, and her dissertation is entitled The Role of Performance in the Decameron and the Thousand and One Nights. Her interests include narratology, orality, gender, and the question of authorship. Her research brings together medieval Italian literature and its relationship to the Arabic tradition, performance theory, and Mediterranean studies.

While at UC Berkeley, Anna has taught for the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Italian...

Hannah Frakes

Languages: English, German, French, Biblical Greek Academic Area: religious mysticism, theology, feminisms, visual art, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis

Linda Gao

Ron Godoy

Languages: English, Spanish, French Periods: 19th and 20th centuries Academic Area: Novel theory, Latin American studies, Fascism and totalitarianism, Self-help and literature, Masculinity studies, Postcolonialism

Christopher Gutierrez

Languages/Literatures: Ancient Greek, Latin, English (Early Modern), Spanish

Christopher received his B.A. in Classics and English from Columbia University (2025). He is interested in the classical reception of archaic Greek lyric poetry, the rhetorical armature of the Platonic dialogues, the afterlife of classical rhetorical theory, early 16th century humanism, and late Elizabethan (and early Jacobean) literature. He received the Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize in Classics for his senior thesis “Shakespeare’s Lucretian Dream: The Renaissance...