Graduate Student, English, UCLA Samantha is a fourth year graduate student in the English department at UCLA. She specializes in British Gothic literature in the long nineteenth century. Outside of academia, she competes in triathlon and is a two-time Ironman finisher.

Graduate Student, English, UCLA Jennifer is a graduate student in the English Department at UCLA, where she studies renderings of memory in contemporary global novels and teaches undergraduate courses on composition and literature. She received her M.A. in English with an emphasis on Women’s Studies from University of Pittsburgh. Jennifer has been a TA consultant…

Graduate Student, Classics, UCLA Zachary Borst is a PhD student in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Concordia University in Irvine (2012), his M.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Riverside (2014), and his M.A. In Classics from UCLA (2017). His interests include archaic Greek poetry, the reception…

Director of the Creative Writing Program & Professor, English, UCLA Fred D’Aguiar writes poetry, fiction, plays and essays and directs the English Department’s Creative Writing Program.

Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Javier Moreno is Lecturer in Spanish whose teaching focuses on academic writing to Heritage Speakers. His research interests lie in the fields of applied linguistics and the intersection between language and law, in particular Legal Translation and Interpreting Studies. Trained in Spain, France, the United States and the United Kingdom;…

Lecturer, English, UCLA Megan Stephan is a lecturer in UCLA’s Department of English and Faculty Coordinator for Writing in the English Major. Her research and teaching interests include 19th-century British literature, Gothic literature, sensation fiction, women’s writing, the essay, and discipline-specific writing for English and humanities subjects. She received her BA in English from Brown…

Lecturer, Writing Programs, UCLA Dr. Tara Prescott is a lecturer in Writing Programs and Faculty in Residence at UCLA. She is the author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy and the editor of Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century.

EPIC Graduate Student Researcher Ying Yang is a PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics at UCLA. Her research interest focuses on the interplay between discourse and grammar. To investigate how everyday interaction shapes and is reshaped by linguistic practices, she uses video recordings of natural conversation and applies both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Her dissertation examines…

Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA Lia Brozgal earned a BA in French from Chatham College and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. Her research and teaching encompass a variety of topics in Francophone North African literature, culture and history, as well as contemporary France. She is the author of…

Graduate Student, Philosophy, UCLA Jordan Wallace-Wolf is J.D. recipient from the UCLA School of Law and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy. He is interested in philosophy of law, agency, and ethics. He is currently researching privacy and thinking about its importance in an open society.