Graduate Student

Robin Manley

Liza Michaeli

Liza Michaeli is a writer, originally from Jerusalem. She is earning a PhD in Rhetoric, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Jewish Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, where she works in poetics, psychoanalysis, embodied theology, phenomenology, and Jewish ethics.

William Morgan

William Morgan is a philosopher of technology whose research resides at the intersection of cybernetics, modern finance and artificial intelligence. He is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he is also member of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the editorial board of the journal, qui parle. Most recently, he was part of the inaugural class of Antikythera Studio Fellows, housed within the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. His work has previously appeared in e-flux, Theory, Culture & Society...

Simon(e) van Saarloos

Pia Sazani

Pia Sazani is an artist, educator, and researcher living in Oakland, California. They are interested in the collocation of the speculative mode and religious affect in contemporary literature, art, theory, and popular culture attempting to think the future.

With poet Sam Creely, they co-edit the chaplet series DanceNotes, which publishes experiments in dance notation. Read more at isitadancenote.com

Kyra Sutton

Kyra Sutton is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and the Program in Critical Theory. Her dissertation, “The Secular Undone: Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and the Question of Time,” stages a conversation between literary criticism and critical religion and secularism studies, reading contemporary Anglo-American literature with an interest in how its forms upend and variously complicate standard definitions of “the secular modern.” She is former Co-Editor-in-Chief of qui parle (2020-2022), where she remains an Editor, and current Editorial Assistant at...

Zina Wang

My research revolves around the relation between legible and illegible in visual experiences. A particular interest is the problematic idea of time- or culture-specific object, wherein emerge questions of repetition and singularity, representational technologies, transhistorical hermeneutics, and the margin of writing. BA, MA, the University of Chicago

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

Camila YaDeau

Camila YaDeau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research brings together comparative political theory, intellectual history, China studies, post-colonial theory and literary theory of translation. Her dissertation, “Reconstructing the Political: Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and the Genealogy of Chinese Liberalism,” examines the relationship between liberalism, nationalism and state power in Chinese interpretations of liberalism during the long 20th century.

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Jae-Min Yoo

Jae-Min joined the Rhetoric department after working as a paralegal for the Natural Resources Defense Council. She is interested in exploring how bodies materialize through biopolitical, racial, environmental, and economic systems. Specifically, she hopes to study legal texts and speculative fiction that center non-“normative” bodies and open up radical imaginations of our current/future worlds. Jae-Min graduated from Bowdoin College, where she majored in Political Theory and minored in English.