Faculty

Eric Falci

Professor, English; Director of the Celtic Studies Program
Department of English

I joined the faculty at U.C. Berkeley in Fall 2006 after finishing my PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My first book, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010(link is external), appeared in 2012. A second book,...

Myriah Williams

Continuing Lecturer, Celtic Studies
Celtic Studies

Degrees
PhD, University of Cambridge (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) 2017
Dissertation: “Studies in the Black Book of Carmarthen”

MPhil, University of Cambridge (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) 2012

BA, University of California, Berkeley (Celtic Studies) 2009

Teaching
Medieval Welsh Language and Literature; Modern Welsh; The World of the Celts; Celtic Mythology and Oral Tradition; Medieval Celtic Culture; Modern Celtic Cultures; Reading and Composition

Research Interests
Medieval Welsh literature;...

Zachary Johnson

Lecturer, Celtic Studies
Celtic Studies

Zachary Johnson holds a PhD (2016) and teaches Reading and Composition courses in both the Celtic Studies Program and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, from which he is a graduate. He has taught R&C for Celtic Studies during various semesters since Fall 2017.

Matthew Ryan Shelton

Lecturer, Celtic Studies
Celtic Studies

Matthew Ryan Shelton is a poet, translator, and musician. He holds an MA from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. His dissertation work focused on the role of translation and translingual practices in poiesis. His poetry and translations can be found, in English as well as Irish Gaelic, in such publications as The Cincinnati Review, Asymptote, An Gael, Mantis, The Swarthmore Review, Parhelion, The Shoutflower, and Zócalo Public Square.

Areas of Interest in Research and Teaching: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth and...

Catherine Flynn

Associate Professor and Director of Irish Studies, English; Affiliated with Celtic Studies
Department of English

Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris(link is external), appeared with Cambridge University Press (2019).

For the hundred-year anniversary of Ulysses, she has put together...