Graduate Student

Hannah Kirwan

Drew Kiser

Ecocriticism
Victorian
20th- and 21st-Century American
Atlantic
Creative Writing
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film

Tom Kozlowski

20th- and 21st-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Creative Writing
Disability Studies
Poetry

I'm a person who writes poems and carries broad interests in sense perception, mystical thought and spiritual practice (especially through Yoga philosophy), aesthetic experience, and spectra running from ordinary to extraordinary language. within this constellation I try to interrogate why and how our historical sensory configurations鈥攏amely, and at present, Western ocularcentrism鈥攃ome to shape and/or delude contact with life as it is, its oneness, its practical as well as spiritual reality. most of all, I'm learning how to approach these questions through the filter of my own experience...

Ryan Lackey

Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British
Creative Writing

Cammie Lee

Annabelle Littlejohn-Bailey

Pacific
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Native American

For the 2024-2025 school year, I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, I am interested in Global Indigenous studies, Pacific islands literature, Indigenous nationalism, and feminist literary and cultural criticism. My previous work has interrogated feminist responses to Indigenous nationalism in the Pacific's postcolonial core and I continue to focus on work originating from and circulating throughout sovereign Pacific nations.

Although I am a newcomer to the Bay, I was born...

Jimmy Liu

William Lohier

Minnie Madden

Matthew Manno