Todd Barnes has a BA in English from Berkeley. He is interested in Shakespeare in modern filmic performance and theories of adaptation as they relate to issues of representation and subject formation.

Matt Bonal has an A.B. in English and Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College. He is interested in the material politics of subjectivity, the multitude, violence, and global capital in both the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Emily Carpenter has a BA in Government from Smith College. She studies the relationship between gender and visual culture in the scientific arena.

Colin Dingler has a BA in Rhetoric from UCB. He is interested in the intersections of poetry/poetics and interdisciplinary approaches to language theory.

Michelle Dizon holds a BA in History of Art and a BA in English from UC Berkeley. She also holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio from the Department of Art at UCLA. Dizon is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work addresses questions of postcoloniality, racialization, sexuality, subaltern identity, and historical memory. Her recent projects have examined the legacies of US colonialism in the Philippines, the dialogics of resistance between subaltern movements in the postcolonial world, the politics of language and visibility in events of civil unrest, the question of witnessing and the mode of presence and temporality that it implies, and the specters left in the wake of state policies related to migration. She is a co-founder of Imprenta, an artist-run space devoted to postcolonial feminist issues in Los Angeles. Her dissertation, entitled Refugee Forms, considers historical memory as it relates to questions of violence, subalternity, contemporary art, and globalization.

Angela R. Hill earned a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. Presently, she works on the politics of marginalization, menacing bodies and the penal state, incarnation, and state projects of legal exclusion.

Satyel Larson has BA in English from Berkeley. Her primary interest is in international legal theory and questions of collective sovereignty and individual rights in Francophone West and Central Africa.

Ben Lempert has a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and most of a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School in New York. His Interests include Heidegger and phenomenology, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, critical philosophy, American literature, jazz and improvised music.

Benjamin Morgan has a BA in Literature from Harvard. His dissertation is on the influence of German aesthetic philosophy on fin-de-siècle decadence and aestheticism.

Paul Nadal has a BA in English and Ethnic Studies from the University of Washington and an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA. His areas of interests are postcolonial and diasporic literatures, political theory, gender and labor migration, and issues of development in the Asia Pacific, with a focus on the Philippines.

K-Sue Park holds a B.A. in English and as a College Scholar from Cornell and an M.Phil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. Her interests include jurisprudence, critical theory, political and social theory, and psychoanalysis.

Milos Petrovic has a BA in Architecture and Philosophy from Berkeley. His work is in political/social philosophy and philosophy of law, as well as in philosophy of art.

Brad Rogers has a BA in Music from the University of Virginia. He combines his training in musicology with wide-ranging interests in drama, performance theory, popular culture, hermeneutics, and gender studies.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan holds a B.A. in Literature from Duke University. Her interests include ethnic representational politics, feminist theory, performance theory, diaspora studies, and (inter-)disciplinarity in the modern university.

Jennifer Stewart holds degrees in philosophy from the University of Calgary (BA HON) and Carleton University in Ottawa (MA). She studies the history of philosophy with focus on the 18th Century (Locke, Condillac, Rousseau), 20th Century phenomenology, and contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and perception, while hoping some day to be elected to Parliament.

Vincent Tafolla has a BA in English from the University of Nebraska. His work focuses on the crossroads of technology, psychology, and religion with a focus on aesthetics.

Before coming to the Rhetoric Department, Chris Tenove was a Vancouver-based journalist who covered international criminal tribunals, among other topics. He intends to transitional justice, media, political theory and cosmopolitanism.

Zhivka Valiavicharska has an M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her interests include modern political philosophy and social theory, postcolonial theory, histories of Marxist thought, and theories of the subject.