Faculty

Katherine Snyder

Associate professor
Department of English

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...

Sarah Song

Milo Rees Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics Professor of Law
Berkeley Law

Sarah Song is a political theorist with a special interest in democratic theory and issues of citizenship, migration, culture, religion, gender, and race. She has supervised Canadian graduate students, and has participated in roundtable discussions on Canada-related research.

Claire J. Tomlin

Charles A. Desoer Chair
College of Engineering

Claire Tomlin is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, where she holds the Charles A. Desoer Chair in Engineering. Raised in Canada, she received her B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. She later earned an M.Sc. from Imperial College in London, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley.

Professor Tomlin was an assistant, associate, and full professor at Stanford from 1998-2007, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2005. She received the Erlander Professorship...

Nathaniel Wolfson

Assistant professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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.

He is currently working on a book...