About Us
Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently teaches in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley and was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates the power dynamics of languages in contact in the public space of Southern California and Mexico. She uses interdisciplinary methods to explore these areas’ signage (i.e. linguistic landscape) and residents’ attitudes toward the presence and absence of different languages. Dr. Carr has published work related to the concept of language solidarity, as well as language attitudes with respect to varying pronunciations of Spanish and English and the intersection between U.S. Latinx culture and Food Studies.
Román Luján
Born in Mexico, Román Luján has lived in the United States for 17 years. He has published several books of poetry in Spanish, including Deshuesadero, Drâstel, and Sánafabich. Coeditor of two anthologies of Mexican poetry, he has translated the work of several English-language poets into Spanish, including Juliana Spahr, Leslie Scalapino, and Donato Mancini. Translations of his poetry have appeared in Jacket2, Aufgabe, The Lilian, and Matter. He has two decades of experience teaching Spanish language classes, as well as literature, cinema, translation, and creative writing classes, both at the college and high school levels. He currently teaches Spanish and literature at the University of California, Berkeley.