Graduate Student

Tom Kozlowski

20th- and 21st-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Creative Writing
Disability Studies
Poetry

I'm a person who writes poems and carries broad interests in sense perception, mystical thought and spiritual practice (especially through Yoga philosophy), aesthetic experience, and spectra running from ordinary to extraordinary language. within this constellation I try to interrogate why and how our historical sensory configurations—namely, and at present, Western ocularcentrism—come to shape and/or delude contact with life as it is, its oneness, its practical as well as spiritual reality. most of all, I'm learning how to approach these questions through the filter of my own experience...

Ryan Lackey

Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British
Creative Writing

Jessica Laser

19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Creative Writing
Critical Theory
Poetry

Annabelle Littlejohn-Bailey

Pacific
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Native American

For the 2024-2025 school year, I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, I am interested in Global Indigenous studies, Pacific islands literature, Indigenous nationalism, and feminist literary and cultural criticism. My previous work has interrogated feminist responses to Indigenous nationalism in the Pacific's postcolonial core and I continue to focus on work originating from and circulating throughout sovereign Pacific nations.

Although I am a newcomer to the Bay, I was born...

Matthew Manno

Sean McCoy

Lara Lee Meintjes

19th-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Textual Criticism
Poetry

B.A. Williams College; English with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude, 2022)
A.A. Long Beach City College; Anthropology and Social Science (2019)

Recent Publications:

“[T]he poorest / post-card of itself:” An Aerial View of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Florida” in Bishop-Lowell Studies, 2024-11, Vol.4, p.82-101

Death by Depiction: Absence in the Landscapes of the Group of Seven and in Margaret Atwood's "Death by Landscape" in Margaret Atwood Studies, 2023-01, Vol.16, p.34-45

Faltering Toward Agency: A Search for Eurydice's Voice in...

William Mulligan

Gwen Muren

Eric Muscosky