Humanities

Daniel Bernardi

Education: B.A., University of Arizona, Radio-Television; M.A., University of Arizona, Media Arts; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Film and Television

Dissertation: The Wrath of Whiteness: The Meaning of Race in the Generation of Star Trek

Thesis Advisor: Nick Browne, Professor of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Turn dissertation into a book; turn that book into a CD-ROM

Mentor: Robert Rosen, Professor of Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Media Arts, University of Arizona

Louis Chude-Sokei

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, English

Dissertation: The Infinite Rain of Stars: Black Modernism, Black Diaspora.

Thesis Advisor: Vincent Pecora, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: The Incomprehensible Rain of Stars: Black Modernism, Black Diaspora. The invention of "Africa" in the black diaspora literary/cultural imagination.

Mentor: Abdul JanMohamed, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

David Eng

Education: A.B., Columbia College, English and East Asian Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature

Dissertation: Managing Masculinity: Race and Psychoanalysis in Asian American Literature

Thesis Advisors: Kaja Silverman, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley and Sau-Ling Wong, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Rework "Managing Masculinity: Race and Psychoanalysis in Asian American Literature"

Mentor: Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Associate Professor, Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Asian American Studies, Columbia University

John M. González

Education: A.B., Princeton University, English Literature; M.A., Stanford University, English and American Literature; Ph.D., Stanford University, American Literature

Dissertation: In the Wake of Reconstruction: National Allegory and Narrative Form, 1877 - 1907

Thesis Advisor: Ramon Saldivar, Professor of English, Stanford University

Research Topic: In the Wake of Reconstruction: National Allegory and Narrative Form, 1877 - 1907

Mentor: Susan Gillman, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, American Culture Program and Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Education: B.A., University of California, Berkeley, English and Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation: Her Contentious Subjections: Enfiguring the Asian/American Woman

Thesis Advisor: Donna Haraway, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic: A critical analysis of how five discursive terrains construct and circulate the figure of the Asian /American woman.

Mentor: David Lloyd, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine

Michael Murashige

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, English

Dissertation: Race, Resistance, and Contestations of Urban Space

Thesis Advisors: King-Kok Cheung, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles and Valerie Smith, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Race, Resistance, and Contestations of Urban Space in Los Angeles

Mentor: Richard Yarborough, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Overseas

María Cristina Pons

Education: B.A., Instituto Nacional de Educación Fisica, Buenos Aires, Physical Education; M.A., University of Alberta, Spanish American Literature; Ph.D. University of Southern California, Spanish American Literature

Dissertation: The new Historical Novel in Latin America

Thesis Advisor: Lucille Kerr, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California

Research Topic: The New Historical Novel in Latin America: a manifestation of the socio-cultural and historical change.

Mentor: Guillermo Hernández, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, César Chávez Center for Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Raúl Villa

Education: B.A., Yale University, Comparative Literature; M.A., University of Michigan, American Culture; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation: Tales from the Second City: Social Geographical Imagination in Contemporary Urban California Chicano / Chicana Literature and Arts.

Thesis Advisors: James Clifford, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz and José David Saldívar Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: A book manuscript project. Tales from the Second City: Social Geographical Imagination in Contemporary Urban California Chicano/Chicana Literature and Arts.

Mentor: George Mariscal, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature Studies, Occidental College

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