Lilith C. Acadia
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acadia@berkeley.edu
- discourses of religion, religion in science fiction, feminist epistemology, and queer theory
- Advisor: Daniel Boyarin
Bio
Reinterpreting the terms ‘religion’ and ‘pretext,’ then reading those conceptions through 20th Century North American science fiction, my dissertation reveals and contests how theological and ethical discourses utilize the modern construction of ‘religion’ as … More
Spencer Adams
Megan Alvarado Saggese
Bruno Anaya Ortiz
Kevin Block
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kevinpblock@berkeley.edu
- Architectural history and theory, the sociology of architecture, cultural history, American studies, design studies, creativity and labor, globalization.
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My dissertation is a historical research project that reconsiders the epistemological and social conditions necessary for the growth of the American architecture profession. I am broadly interested in architecture and design as forms of knowledge production and the built environment as a means … More
Katherine Brown
Alexandra Budny
Devin Choudhury
Marcos Cisneros
Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas
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cornejo@berkeley.edu
- Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Transgender Studies, Latin American Studies
- Advisor: Trinh T. Minh-ha
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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
Michael Dalebout
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m.dalebout@berkeley.edu
Office Hours for Summer 2017: MWF 4:00-4:45pm, 7404 Dwinelle Hall
- philosophy of technology, style, aesthetics, composition, subjectivities, histories and theories of comedy
Evyn Lê Espiritu
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evyn.espiritu@berkeley.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
- critical refugee studies, settler colonial studies, archipelagic American Studies, US empire, history and memory, diaspora, critical theory, gender studies
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Evyn Lê Espiritu is a Rhetoric PhD candidate and filmmaker at UC Berkeley. Her interdisciplinary research traces the ways in which Vietnamese refugees, and “Vietnam” as a rhetorical signifier, circulate around the globe. Her dissertation examines the … More
Pedro Feijó
Richard Grijalva
Nicholaus Gutierrez
Yael Hacohen
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Yael Hacohen has an MFA in Poetry at New York University where she was an Adjunct Professor, an NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, and International Editor at Washington Square Review. Her poems appear in The Poetry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Every Day Poets Magazine, Nine … More
Adam Hutz
Kuan Hwa
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kuanhwa@berkeley.edu
- 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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Kuan Hwa is a contemporary artist and PhD candidate. His MFA thesis used multiple taxonomies of video sequences to investigate muscle memory as socio-cultural memory across various communities of practice, from salsa dance to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Currently, he is working on … More
Ryan Ikeda
Anooj Kansara
Michelle Kim
Linda Kinstler
Alexandra Kleeman
Suzanne LiPuma
Jennifer Lum
Zachary Manfredi
Kelianne Montalvo
William Morgan
Paul Nadal
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pjnadal@berkeley.edu
- Global Anglophone Literature, Asia/Pacific American Literature and Culture, History and Theory of the Novel, Philippine Studies, Critical Finance Studies, Critical Theory
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My dissertation examines works produced from the interactions between Philippine and U.S. literary systems in order to develop a theory and history of realism in the Filipino novel in English as "remittance fiction"—or fictions of and about the integration of the Philippines into … More
Emily O'Rourke
Tenzin Paldron
Kathleen Powers
- philosophy of science, bioethics
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I am interested in the definition of biology in Western philosophy. In particular, I am interested in 20th century vitalism's attempt to define biological life. I intend to write a dissertation on medical interventions in end of life care and the changing definitions of consciousness that attend … More
Yasmina Raiani
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yraiani@berkeley.edu
- Islamic Law, Legal History, Legal Theory, Sufism
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My dissertation investigates legal change during the colonial period outside the context of modern statecraft by exploring the practices and articulations of the sharī‘a by Sufi orders engaged in anti-colonial struggle in mid-19th century Algeria. More
Ryan Rhadigan
Chiara Ricciardone
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thyme@berkeley.edu
- Greek philosophy, Continental philosophy, theories of selfhood
- Advisor: Pheng Cheah
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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 … More
Jerilyn Sambrooke
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jsambrooke@berkeley.edu
- 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 … More
Kyra Sutton
Kris Trujillo
Osita Udekwu
Michelle Velasquez-Potts
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mpotts@berkeley.edu
- 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.
- Advisor: Samera Esmeir
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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 … More
Katharine Wallerstein
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katharine@berkeley.edu
- 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. More
Alexandria Wright
Tim Wyman-McCarthy
Camila Yadeau
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camila.yadeau@berkeley.edu
- 19th and 20th-century continental philosophy and critical theory, modern Chinese intellectual history, modern political theory, philosophy of history
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Camila YaDeau is interested in the encounters and exchanges between Western European philosophy and political thought and Chinese intellectuals in the late 19th through the mid-20th century. She is interested in the translation of texts, the history of concepts, and the reception of particular … More
Janice Yu
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jenny_marie@berkeley.edu
- Visual studies, metaphysics and ontology, critical race studies, posthumanism
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Janice Yu is a PhD candidate in the department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. She works across the fields of visual studies, race studies, ontology, and posthumanism. Her dissertation primarily takes up representations of dead bodies as visual articulations of our thoughts on not only death but the … More