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.
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...
“Beyond the Process,” an essay by fourth-year English Ph.D. student and recent Simpson fellow Ryan Lackey, will be included in the forthcoming fourth volume of Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project due out in October 2022. Simpsonistas, which is published annually, collects work by associates of the New Literary Project (formerly the Simpson Literary Project), placing the work of...
The Department of English and the New Literary Project present the winner of the 2022 New Literary Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize LAUREN GROFF Author of Matrix, Florida, and Fates and Furies in conversation with New Literary Project Simpson Fellow Ryan Lackey October 13, 2022, 6:30 pm Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315) Lauren Groff is the author of...
READ MORE Lauren Groff in Conversation with Ryan Lackey: Thursday, October 13th
For information on the recruitment and application instructions, see the full posting. (Image: The British Library, Additional 47967 f. 65v)
READ MORE Faculty Recruitment–Assistant Professor of Medieval English
The English Department has been ranked #1 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 national graduate program rankings. The high ranking of the department as a whole resulted from the high ranking of our field specialties, as follows: #1 in American Literature After 1865 #1 in Gender and Literature #2 in 18th Through 20th Century British Literature #2 in African-American...
READ MORE Berkeley English ranked #1 graduate program by <I>U.S. News</I>
For information on the Bedri Distinguished Writer Series, including past and forthcoming events, please visit the Series’ website. Join us for a public lecture with Edwidge Danticat, the Spring 2022 Bedri Distinguished Writer, on Thursday, April 28th at 8:00 PM in 315 Wheeler Hall (the Maude Fife Room). A smaller, department-only Q&A will take place earlier in the day at...
Professor Nadia Ellis is one of four UC Berkeley faculty members to win the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award is the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching and is intended to recognize individual faculty for sustained performance of excellence in teaching. Above and beyond an individual exemplary class, this kind of sustained excellence in teaching incites intellectual...
READ MORE Nadia Ellis Wins the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award
Earlier last week, I reached out to English department faculty members and grad students to gather book recommendations to explore during this time of uncertainty. The selections range from fantastical escapes to tragicomedies, to apocalyptic plots that feel all too relevant to what we are experiencing today. We hope that this list will inspire you to find comfort in the...
READ MORE “Quarantine” Book List – Curated by the UC Berkeley English Department
Habitually Holloway: In Praise of Poetry by: Giovanna Lomanto Even before the event, the room buzzed with anticipation as the awaiting audience waited eagerly for the introductions to begin. The reading as a phenomenon was social, especially in the front end of the night; in the Maude Fife, a flush of chatter greeted me from the far side of...
The University of California Academic Advising Conference is an annual conference aimed at providing professional development to strengthen UC-wide academic advising. Held by a different UC campus every year, this year’s conference, Expecting the Unexpected: Practical Tools for Advising in a Changing World, was sponsored by UC Santa Cruz and was held in Monterey, California. Below, Undergraduate Adviser Katie Schramm...
READ MORE Katie Schramm attends University of California Academic Advising Conference
The department’s own Georgina Kleege recently took part in an interdisciplinary blend of lecture and dance, Netta Yerushalmy’s “Paramodernities,” at New York Live Arts on March 14th-17th. The New York Live Arts site summarizes the performance this way: “Paramodernities boasts a radical and undefinable rethinking of the canon, involving virtually no music. Each section was created as an independent unit...
182 feet of LED screen wraps around the circumference of the Grand Hall in San Francisco’s new Transbay Terminal. Continuously running across the screen in letters 16 feet tall are texts from over 40 writers, including Maya Angelou, Harvey Milk, Machine Gun Kelly, and the English department’s John Shoptaw. The display, called “White Light,” was designed by Jenny Holzer, an...
READ MORE John Shoptaw Featured in Transbay Terminal Display
Department alum Daniel Gumbiner has been longlisted for the National Book Award in fiction for his novel, The Boatbuilder. The National Book Foundation, which presents the National Book Awards, writes: “In Daniel Gumbiner’s The Boatbuilder, a twenty-eight-year-old man who has moved easily through the world sustains a concussion with lingering effects, opening a door to opioid addiction and quickly leading to...
