Graduate Student

Leonardo Johansson-Lebrón

Renaissance and Early Modern
20th- and 21st-Century American
Caribbean

Libby Kao

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Pacific
Cultural Studies
Narrative & the Novel

Libby Kao is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation studies paid and unpaid types of gendered caregiving labor in Taiwan and Asian American cultural production as an experiment in foregrounding social reproduction across scales of Asian economic exemplarity (the Tiger/Dragon miracle, the model minority) amid global care crisis. Her work has been published in Taiwan Lit and the Princeton Journal of Asian...

Naima Karczmar

18th-Century British
19th-Century American
African American
Creative Writing
Critical Theory

Tyleen Louise Kelly

Drama
Narrative & the Novel
19th-Century British
Irish

Anthony Kendrick

.hyungtae kim

African American
Critical Theory

Maddie Kim

Asian American

Andrew David King

My current research pertains to disability, class, and the history of medicine and technology. I'm interested in how debates about formalism in literary culture, the life sciences, and clinical practice have shaded into, or served as proxies for, sites for the negotiation of what it means to be an embodied being. Part of this work involves recuperating and reconfiguring the history of medicine for disability studies. A longstanding concern in which these interests have found some traction is the science, social construction, and aesthetic representation of pain--as a non-object that...

Hannah Kirwan

Drew Kiser

20th- and 21st-Century American
African
Atlantic
Creative Writing
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film

Traditional approaches to "queer ecology" assume that queerness can be leveraged better to achieve the aims of environmentalism. My project destabilizes this relationship, asking what happens to nature if we honor the anti-essentialist capacities of queer theory. Combining analyses of homonationalism, greenwashing, and the evolution of genre through colonial literay networks, I explore the imbrications of sexuality, ecology, and form in the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, I am interested in the works of South African novelist K. Sello Duiker (13 Cents, The Quiet Violence of...