Graduate Student

Lara Lee Meintjes

19th-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Textual Criticism
Poetry

B.A. Williams College; English with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude, 2022)
A.A. Long Beach City College; Anthropology and Social Science (2019)

Recent Publications:

“[T]he poorest / post-card of itself:” An Aerial View of Elizabeth Bishop’s “Florida” in Bishop-Lowell Studies, 2024-11, Vol.4, p.82-101

Death by Depiction: Absence in the Landscapes of the Group of Seven and in Margaret Atwood's "Death by Landscape" in Margaret Atwood Studies, 2023-01, Vol.16, p.34-45

Faltering Toward Agency: A Search for Eurydice's Voice in...

Rebecca Maria Nieto

20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Poetry

Jessy Nyiri

British Literature
Critical Theory
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Trans Studies

I am a PhD Candidate in English at 91 Berkeley, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies. This year, I am reipient of the Una Fellowship, awarded to an outstanding woman graduate student in the field of history, at the Townsend Center for the Humanities. In 2024, I received the Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship from Berkeley's Program in Critical Theory.

Garreth O'Brien

20th- and 21st-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century American
Narrative & the Novel
Film

Kevin Ogunniyi

Renaissance and Early Modern
Creative Writing
Middle English
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
Drama

I work on post-Reformation English plays and polemical writings--predominantly, on the forms and styles of anti-theatrical pamphleteering.