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RLL Faculty
RLL Graduate students
RLL Graduate Student Services Advisors

RLL Executive Committee

Justin Davidson, Director (Spanish)

Akash Kumar, (Italian)

Henry Ravenhall (French)

The Executive Committee overseas the running of the RLL Ph.D. program including liaising with the three departments, admissions to the program, organizing events, and overseeing student progress. Each student meets with the Executive Committee when they enter the program for the First Semester Screening Interview and again in their Fifth Semester Review as they begin to plan their Qualifying Examinations. Students at any point in their career in the RLL program can request a meeting with the Executive Committee for advising purposes. The Executive Committee is made up of three members: one representative each from the departments of French, Italian Studies and Spanish and Portuguese, with one of these members serving as the Executive Director. The departments are responsible for appointing their representatives and the Executive Director position rotates between the three departments every three years.

RLL Faculty

All ladder-rank faculty in the Departments of French, Italian Studies, and Spanish & Portuguese are available to work with RLL students and to serve, if they agree to do so, as members of qualifying examination and dissertation committees in RLL.

Déborah Blocker, Professor, French

Karl Britto, Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

William Burton, Assistant Professor, French

Dani Cádiz Bedini, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Raul Coronoado, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Justin Davidson, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Daylet Dominguez, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Mia Fuller, Associate Professor, Italian Studies

Timothy Hampton, Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Michael Iarocci, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Richard Kern, Professor, French

Akash Kumar, Assistant Professor, Italian

Henrike Christiane Lange, Assistant Professor, Italian Studies

Michael Lucey, Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Susan Maslan, Associate Professor, French

Tom McEnaney, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Mairi McLaughlin, Professor, French

Naseer Meerkhan, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Nicholas Paige, Professor, French

Diego Pirillo, Associate Professor, Italian Studies

Henry Ravenhall, Assistant Professor, French

Debarati Sanyal, Associate Professor, French

Alexandra Saum-Pascual, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Soraya Tlatli, Associate Professor, French

Rhiannon Noel Welch, Associate Professor, Italian Studies

Nathaniel Wolfson, Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Liesl Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor, French

Damon Young, Assistant Professor, French and Film Studies

RLL Graduate Students

Cameron Flynn, French emphasis, Literature track

Jonathan Jones-Edwards, Spanish emphasis, Linguistics track

Jennifer Kaplan, French emphasis, Linguistics track

Anna Knall, Spanish emphasis, Linguistics track

Kevin Martín, Italian emphasis, Linguistics track

Marguerite Morlan, Spanish emphasis, Linguistics track

Danny Pham, French emphasis, Linguistics track

Jesús Ramírez Silva, French emphasis, Literature track

Riley VanMeter, Spanish emphasis, Linguistics track

Oliver Whitmore, French emphasis, Linguistics track

Graduate Student Services Advisors

French emphasis:      Pichaya Kositsawat, frenchga@berkeley.edu

Italian emphasis:       Seth Arnopole, issag@berkeley.edu

Spanish & Portuguese emphasis:    Sebastião Macedo, spanga@berkeley.edu