Daniella Cádiz Bedini standing in outside setting
Photo: Jen Siska

Research Bio

Dani Cádiz Bedini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She teaches and writes on literature of the Americas, literary exchanges, empire, political terror, and anticolonial activism. Her book project, tentatively titled Dream Awake: Empire, Race, and Translation in Nineteenth-Century Americas, examines diverse modes of translation that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work. A second book project looks to political terror and the gothic in Latin America.

Dani's writing and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American QuarterlyMELUSTheory in Action, and American Periodicals. She’s also a frequent contributor to the global arts magazine, the Online Gallery

Research Expertise and Interest

Latin American literatures, hemispheric American literature, literary exchanges, anticolonial activism, migration, border crossings, translation, linguistic exchange

Teaching

Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring 2025 Fall
  • Studies in Hispanic Literature  [SPANISH 135]  

  • Studies in Hispanic Literature  [SPANISH 135]  

  • Special Study for Graduate Students  [SPANISH 298]  

  • Special Advanced Study  [SPANISH 299]  

2025 Spring
  • Survey of Spanish American Literature  [SPANISH 104B]  

  • Seminar in Spanish American Literature  [SPANISH 280]