Beth Piatote is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature. Her research interests fall within Native American literature, history, law and culture; Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada; American literature and cultural studies; Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature.
Dr. Piatote co-created and currently chairs the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization at Berkeley. She also currently serves as the Director of the Arts Research Center, where she has established the...
Dr. Richard A. Rhodes is the interim director of the Canadian Studies Program, and holds the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics, specializing in North American Indigenous languages. He received his Ph.D. in from the University of Michigan, where he also taught for ten years. Professor Rhodes joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1986, and taught in the Department of Linguistics until his retirement in 2021. In addition to his teaching, he also served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters &...
Ayelet Shachar (LL.M., J.S.D, Yale Law School) is the Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Chair in Comparative Law. She joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2023. Previously, she held the R.F. Harney Chair in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2015-2020, she was a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society - one of the foremost research organizations in the world - and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Katherine Snyder is an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, specializing in 19th through 21st century American and British fiction. Her first book, Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925, considered the rise of British and American modernist narrative in relation to the history of masculinity. Her current research and teaching focuses on contemporary fiction, with a particular interest in post-apocalyptic, post-traumatic, and post-9/11 novels. She has written several analyses of the imagery in Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam Trilogy, and has taught a course on...
Nathaniel Wolfson is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated faculty of the Program in Critical Theory. He specializes in 20th and 21st-century Brazilian literature, with a focus on poetry and poetics, media studies and critical theory. His research and teaching emphasize comparative approaches, including exchanges between Latin America, the Lusophone world, Europe and the United States; literary theory and criticism; language theory; visual art; the history of technology and media; and architecture and urban studies.
