Faculty Research in the News

I teach linguistics as a set of tools for seeing what is usually taken for granted: how language works, how it circulates in public, and how it shapes access to information and belonging. In my courses, students don’t just learn terminology and theory; they collect evidence, test claims, and explain patterns in language they encounter every day—on city streets, online, and across the communities...

In the Bay Area’s vibrant contemporary art scene, few artists are more accomplished than Stephanie Syjuco, who has been widely celebrated for her multidisciplinary practice for more than two decades. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other prestigious awards, Syjuco has exhibited her work to great acclaim at some of the world’s leading art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and...

Alexandra Lossada works on immigration, citizenship, and language in contemporary American ethnic literatures, especially in Latinx and Chicanx writing. Her current manuscript project, tentatively entitled The Interpreter of Crimmigration and Detention, reevaluates the figure and the role of the interpreter in post-9/11 literary works that depict detention, deportation, and/or family separation via the legal apparatus of crimmigration, or the intersection of criminal law with immigration law. Her work has recently been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies...

Hannes Bajohr is a Professor in the Department of German. Dr. Bajohr’s primary areas of focus include digital writing and literature, German philosophy of the 20th century, and political theory. He received the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by the Electronic Literature Organization in 2024. Dr. Bajohr studied philosophy, German literature, and modern history at Humboldt University of Berlin, and received his PhD from Columbia University.