This piece is the third in a series about graduate student poets in the Department of English at Berkeley. Noah Warren joined the Berkeley English Department as a Ph.D. student in 2018. He is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon, 2021) and The Destroyer in the Glass (chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yale Series of Younger...
Joining faculty, family, and friends in honoring English’s newest BA and PhD graduates was this year’s commencement speaker, actor and Berkeley English alumn John Cho. A brief clip of his speech is available on Berkeley social media sites: TikTok Instagram Congratulations to this year’s English graduates!
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Professor Elisa Tamarkin has been selected as the recipient of a 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus’ most prestigious teaching honor. The Berkeley English community is invited to read about Professor Tamarkin and this year’s four other honorees and to attend the campus-wide ceremony and reception on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5-6:30 p.m. in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. Professor...
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Professor Kent Puckett, the Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair in English, will deliver this year’s Charles Mills Gayley Lecture on April 6th at 8pm in 315 Wheeler Hall. The annual Gayley Lecture is delivered by a distinguished member of the faculty chosen by their colleagues. Professor Puckett‘s lecture is titled “Now More Than Ever: Barely Narrative in Nixonland.”...
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Valeria Luiselli, the Spring 2023 Bedri Distinguished Writer, will deliver a public lecture, “Migration Stories,” on Thursday, April 20th at 5 pm in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler). Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of Sidewalks,...
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Berkeley English will be presenting an Honors Program Info Session on Thursday, March 16, 2023, from 4pm to 5pm in 300 Wheeler. Undergraduate English majors are invited to learn about the Honors Program from both faculty and current Honors students.
My Pinup by Teaching Professor Hilton Als and Customs by Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor Solmaz Sharif have both been longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Congratulations to Professors Als and Sharif on this honor.
Professor: Elizabeth Abel The mystique of Bloomsbury has captured the Anglo-American cultural imagination for over a century. The term “Bloomsbury” references a small neighborhood in London; a closely knit circle of friends that included some of the signal British writers, artists, cultural critics, and social theorists of the early 20th century, coming together in a queer ambiance; and an artistic...
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Professor: George Starr Across this term we’ll be looking at how writers and filmmakers have grappled with the relationship between the California dream and the California nightmare. We will begin with the film Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1945), a classic noir tale of ambition and murder; explore some essays from Joan Didion’s first nonfiction collection, Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968);...
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Professor Kevis Goodman’s Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics (Yale University Press, 2022) is released this month. Pathologies of Motion offers a new account of later eighteenth‑century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge increasingly worried about the relationship between the geographical mobility of persons displaced from home and the internal motions constituting the physiology...
This piece is the second in a series about graduate student poets in the Department of English at Berkeley. Lindsay Choi joined the English Department as a Ph.D. student in 2018 after completing their undergraduate work in English and Philosophy at Berkeley earlier that year. They are the author of Transverse (Futurepoem Books, 2021), which was a finalist for the...
Beth Piatote joins Berkeley English in Fall 2022 as an Associate Professor. Professor Piatote is a scholar of Native American/Indigenous literature and law; a creative writer of fiction, poetry, plays, and essays; and an Indigenous language revitalization activist/healer, specializing in Nez Perce language and literature. She is the author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature...
This piece is the first in a series about graduate student poets in the Department of English at Berkeley. Jessica Laser joined the English Department as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2017. She is the author of Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and Planet Drill, winner of the Other Futures award and forthcoming this winter from...
To view the department’s Spring 2023 course offerings, please consult the Berkeley Academic Guide via the links below: Reading and Composition Lower Division Upper Division Graduate All classes Classes that satisfy the department’s pre-1800 and Literatures in English requirements are noted in the Guide (in the Class Description section of each class): Literature Before 1800 Literatures in...
The English Department is thrilled to host Harmony Holiday as the visiting Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry for the 2022-23 academic year. As Holloway Lecturer, Holiday is teaching a semester-long creative writing workshop this fall and will be offering a featured reading in the Holloway Series. A dancer, curator, archivist, and experimental filmmaker as well as a poet,...
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