Mia L. McIver received a Ph.D. in English literature from UC Irvine, where she held the Krieger Fellowship in Critical Theory. Her research examines nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature’s engagement with legal and political…

Zirwat Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History. Her research and teaching explore the interconnected histories of art, visual culture, and material culture in Britain, France, South Asia,…

Adam Boggs is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar and educator. His research and teaching interests include the question of creativity and automation, craft-based epistemologies, and the social and material history of the borderlands….

Faye Qiyu Lu is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She is broadly interested in modern Chinese and Sinophone literature, cinema, philosophy, and…

Fadhila Hadjeris is a former Fulbright scholar and currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles with a major in Social Sciences…

Yi Ren is a Ph.D. student in East Asian Linguistics. Her research interests include interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy. Her current work focuses on how unacquainted interlocutors establish common ground through multimodal…

Ji Young Kim is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. She specializes in laboratory phonology, heritage language acquisition, and bilingualism. Her research focuses on…

Michelle Liu Carriger specializes in the historiography of theater, performance and everyday life, with special focus on gender, race and sexuality, as well as how clothing and fashion can themselves serve as historiographical…

Dr. Amber West teaches academic, professional, and creative writing for UCLA Writing Programs and University Extension. Her areas of interest include poetry, public humanities, puppetry, abolition feminism, and hip-hop. She has published two books…