Graduate Student

Lina Scally is currently a PhD student in the French Department at UC Berkeley. She recently earned an M.A. in French and Francophone Literature from Miami University (Ohio), following a bachelor's and master's degree in Operations Management (2013-2018) from the IESEG School of Management in Lille, France. During this time, she also studied abroad at Cornell University and the University of Queensland. Lina possesses extensive professional experience in the hospitality industry in Europe, the United States, and Australia. Additionally, she taught French to undergraduate students...

Welcome! My name is Robbie (they/them) and I’m a first-year PhD student in Berkeley's French Department, interested in contemporary self-writing and autofiction.

Before Berkeley, I earned my B.A. in anthropology and French and francophone studies from Haverford College in 2021. Submitting theses to both departments, I undertook a queer ethnography of astrology, tarot, and healing crystals among college students and a study of silence in French HIV+ self-writing (Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Juste la fin du monde and Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre). After Haverford, I...

Oliver's primary research interest concerns sound change within and across morphological boundaries in Western Romance. He is influenced by cognitive models and interpretations, such as exemplar modeling and phonetic analogy. He is quite interested in Occitan language, culture, and society, focusing on issues such as: inheritance, retention and creation of cultural knowledge, recognition of linguistic knowledge, globalization and identity, and language use in daily life, cultural products, and the media. He has advised the University Libraries in obtaining contemporary Occitan materials....