Faculty

Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor; Director, Berkeley Center for New Media
Comparative Literature
Spanish and Portuguese

McEnaney works on the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban and U.S. literature, sound studies, linguistic anthropology, computational (digital) humanities and new media studies. He is the current director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and serves on the Executive Board of UC Cuba. Additionally, he is part of the...

Ramsey McGlazer

Associate Professor
Comparative Literature

McGlazer writes about 20th-century European and Latin American literature, film and critical theory. He works in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese, with interests in poetry and poetics, politics and aesthetics and feminist, queer and psychoanalytic theory.

His first book, Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, Lit Z Series, 2020), won the American Association for Italian Studies First Book Prize in 2021. The book identifies a “...

Ramona Naddaff

Associate Professor
Rhetoric

Ramona Naddaff is an associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric and director, The Art of Writing, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. She is currently researching a book on censorship and the novel in 19th and 20th-century France, England and the United States. Her forthcoming study, "Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic" (University of Chicago, Fall 2002) examines the relation, forged through the mechanism of censorship, between philosophy and literature. Drawing on this work, she is examining Western philosophical and literary...

Alva Noë

Professor; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy

Alva Noë is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Action in Perception (MIT, 2004); Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009); Varieties of Presence (Harvard, 2012); Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2015), Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark...

Maura Nolan

Associate Professor
English

Nolan works on late medieval English literature, with a special focus on the 14th and 15th centuries, and the vexed relationship between the “medieval” and the “Renaissance.” She is especially interested in defining and articulating the role of the aesthetic in late medieval vernacular literature, particularly in relation to variable cultural understandings of sensation and cognition. She is currently working on two projects. The first focuses on the place of contingency and sensation in the work of John Gower, while the second addresses notions of the beautiful and the sublime in medieval...

Andreja Novakovic

Associate Professor
Philosophy

Novakovic is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and is affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. She serves as section editor in continental philosophy for Philosophy Compass and as a member of the board of directors of the ...

Fumi Okiji

Assistant Professor
Rhetoric

Okiji arrived at the academy by way of the London jazz scene in which I took an active part as a vocalist and improvisor. She works across Black study, critical theory and sound and music studies. Her research and teaching look to Black expression for ways to understand modern and contemporary life, which is to say, she explores works and practices for what they can provide by way of social theory. For instance, her book Jazz as Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited (Stanford University Press, 2018) is a sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno’s idea concerning the...

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor; Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Anthropology

Pandolfo studies theories and forms of subjectivity, and their contemporary predicaments in the Middle Eastern and Muslim world, investigating narrative, trauma, psychoanalysis and the unconscious, memory, historicity and the hermeneutics of disjuncture, language and poetics, experimental ethnographic writing, anthropology and literature, dreaming and the anthropological study of the imagination, intercultural approaches to different ontologies and systems of knowledge, modernity, colonialism and postcolonialism, madness and mental illness. Her current project is a study of emergent forms...

Diego Pirillo

Associate Professor
Italian Studies

Pirillo (Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore) is an associate professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently serving as the director of REMS, the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and he is affiliated faculty in the Center for the Study of Religion, the Institute of European Studies and the Program in Critical Theory.

His work focuses on early modern Italy, Europe, and the Atlantic world, with a strong interest in intellectual history, the history of books and reading, religious and migration studies and the history of...

Djordje Popović

Assistant Professor
Slavic Languages & Literatures

Popović is an assistant professor of South Slavic Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. His research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century South Slavic literature, Yugoslav modernism and state socialism, critical theory (Frankfurt School) and intellectual history. His book project, “The Concept of Statelessness in Second-World Literature,” is a comparative study of the mutually constitutive relationship between homelessness as a cultural standpoint and statelessness as a political condition. His essays on the appropriation of the dialectical...