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Lilith C. Acadia
Discourses of religion, religion in science fiction, feminist epistemology, and queer theory
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Spencer Adams
History and philosophy of science and technology, critical theory, speculative fiction, critical geography
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Marcos Cisneros
TA for Rhetoric 20 (Interpretation)
Graduate Student
marcos_cisneros[at]berkeley[dot]edu
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Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas
Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Transgender Studies, Latin American Studies
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Giancarlo Cornejo is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. His undergraduate studies were completed at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru where he earned his B. A. in Sociology. His essays have... More -
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Samera Esmeir
Co-Director of Projects, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
Associate Professor
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Evyn Espiritu
critical refugee studies, settler colonial studies, archipelagic American Studies, US empire, history and memory, diaspora, critical theory, gender studies
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Kuan Hwa
embodied knowledge, politics of translation, modern and contemporary philosophy of embodiment in Western Europe and Japan, philosophy of habit, sense studies, aesthetics, intercultural phenomenology, semiotics, somatics, materiality of politics, food culture
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Ramona Naddaff
Director, The Art of Writing, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Associate Professor
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Emily O'Rourke
modernism/modernity, film and media, modern social and political theory, moral imaginaries specific to capitalism, literary theory, political economy, feminist theory, visual culture, cultural history, globalization
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My dissertation, “Custodians of Value,” critically reassesses how we read and understand modernist literature, culture, and thought in the late context of the postwar rise of meritocratic beliefs under conditions of growing economic equality in advanced industrial democracies. I analyze and excavate postwar developments in... More -
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Ricciardone’s work is motivated by the question of how humans individually and collectively navigate difference. When does difference inspire wonder, and when does it engender fear, discomfort and disease? Her dissertation focuses on how Plato’s language of disease and health poses the philosophical question of... More -
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Jerilyn Sambrooke
contemporary novel, secularism, aesthetics, political theory, postcoloniality, fanaticism
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Jerilyn’s dissertation is exploring the relation between the contemporary global Anglophone novel and the discourse of fanaticism, particularly religious fanaticism. If fundamentalism is characterized by an epistemological certainty, this project suggests that fanaticism entails an affective intensity that is related to but not limited to... More -
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Michelle Velasquez-Potts
political theory, science and technology studies, feminist and queer theory, critical ethnic studies, critical prison studies, visual cultures, hunger striking, political protest, the weaponization of the body, ethics of pain and suffering.
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Michelle is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation, Technologies of Incapacitation: US Torture Regimes and the Captive Body focuses on what she refers to as “carceral vivisections,” technologies and practices deployed by state actors that seek to literally and figuratively... More -
Katharine Wallerstein
The body, the self, aesthetics, modernity, modernism, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, French theory, visual culture.
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Along with being an academic I have founded and run arts, cultural and humanities programs and centers in the U.S. and in France. -
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