Caleb Mertz-Vega

Summer Session 1 2026:
LTEN 149 - Topics: English-Language Literature

Caleb Mertz-Vega is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego. His dissertation, though in the works, centers on questions of absence, violence, and masculinity within Colombia and Venezuela and their shared border. Mertz-Vega was conferred his Bachelors in English and Spanish in 2020 from UC Berkeley after transferring with an Associates in the same from San Diego City College.

Pronouns: he/him

Languages: English, Spanish

• M.A. in Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2025
• B.A. in English & Spanish, UC Berkeley, 2021