Graduate Student

Rebecca Maria Nieto

20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Poetry

Jessy Nyiri

18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Trans Studies

I am a PhD Candidate in English at UC Berkeley, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies. In 2024, I received the Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship from Berkeley's Program in Critical Theory.

Garreth O'Brien

20th- and 21st-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Narrative & the Novel
Film

Kevin Ogunniyi

Renaissance and Early Modern
Creative Writing
Middle English
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
Drama

I work on post-Reformation English plays and polemical writings--predominantly, on the forms and styles of anti-theatrical pamphleteering.

Jake Orbison

Sakura Price

Angus Reid

20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
Poetry

Laura Ritland

20th- and 21st-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Poetry
Creative Writing

Publications:

“Reading Against Feeling: The Structure of Feeling, Practical Criticism, and Stuart Hall’s Migrant Study.” Cultural Critique (forthcoming).

“Revolutionizing Criticism: Collage as Feminist Critical Practice in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas.” Feminist Modernist Studies. Volume 6, Issue 1, 2023.

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Natalie Ruby

Miguel Samano

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Linguistics
Narrative & the Novel

I focus on post45 U.S. literature, visual art, and performance, especially Chicanx/Latinx and comparative multiethnic, in relation to social theory and the history of social thought. My current interests include new formalisms, perception and attention, phenomenological approaches to literature, interactional sociology, sociology of language, and the linguistic anthropology of literature.