Assistant Adjunct Professor, Linguistics Nico is a Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Linguistics department at UCLA. Her research primarily focuses on the syntax/semantics interface of Romance languages.

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Kristal Bivona holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. She has taught all levels of Spanish and Portuguese, courses in Latin American literature and film, and in study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Her research interests include literature and film from…

Lecturer, Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA The Director of the Language Program, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Lecturer at the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA, Dr. Magda Tarnawska Senel has researched and taught many aspects of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century German culture, literature, social history, and gender studies. Dr. Tarnawska Senel’s approach to teaching is…

Professor, Department of English, Santa Monica College Having taught English in high school, Hari Vishwanadha has been teaching English literature and composition at Santa Monica College for several years. He teaches a variety of literature classes, several of which he has developed. At Santa Monica College, he also provides online tutoring to students across the…

Lecturer, Writing Programs, UCLA In May 2013, Nedda Mehdizadeh earned her Ph.D. from The George Washington University in Washington, DC with an emphasis on early modern trade and travel. Her research and pedagogical interests center on issues of race and ethnicity, travel and encounter, and diversity studies. She is a Full-time Lecturer in Writing Programs, predominately teaching undergraduate…

Graduate Student, English, UCLA Lesley Thulin is a doctoral student in the English Department. Her research interests include British literature of the long eighteenth century, disability studies, and medical humanities. She holds an M.St. from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Julia González Calderón is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. Her research focuses on contemporary Central American and U.S.-Central American fiction, detective fiction, and gender studies.  

Graduate Student, Musicology, UCLA Patrick Bonczyk is a Ph.D. candidate in UCLA’s Department of Musicology where he studies early modern sound-making automata and androids, instrument making, music performance, and animal collection addressing the tenuous boundaries that separate humans, animals, and machines. For the past two years, he has been Teaching Assistant Coordinator at UCLA Writing…

Graduate Student, Art History, UCLA  Franka Horvat is a PhD student at the Art History department at UCLA. Her research interests include the interconnection of social, artistic and economic aspects in medieval Byzantine landscapes, with a particular emphasis on the relationship of islands and mainland, as well as rural areas and urban centers, on the…