Prachi Naik, now a Berkeley graduate, was chosen to speak at the English Department’s 2013 Commencement Ceremony.
READ MORE Our Hronir, Ourselves: A Commencement Address by Prachi Naik (’13)
Fifth in the series is a reflection from Nashilu Mouen-Makoua (’13), who explored three different archives in France, each housing different manuscripts related to the poet and statesman Aimé Césaire.
READ MORE The Lure of the Archive (V): Nashilu Mouen-Makoua’s Detour par Paris
On April 17th, hundreds of people filled Wheeler’s Maude Fife Auditorium to hear Anne Carson read a selection of poems from her new volume.
READ MORE Holloway Poetry Series: Anne Carson + Gillian Osborne
Lili Loofbourow is a seventh-year graduate student, who works on early modern constructions of reading as a form of eating—theologically, physiologically, etc.
READ MORE The Virtues of Excrement: Lili Loofbourow on Blogging and the Academic Life
Fourth in the series is a reflection from Spencer Janssen (’12), who visited the Cormac McCarthy papers, which are located in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.
Simon Palfrey, Professor of English Literature at Oxford, traveled to Berkeley on April 1st to give a talk entitled “Shakespeare: Where is the Life?”
Justin Park, a senior in the English Department, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship; only 39 students nationwide received the award this year, out of 769 applicants.
READ MORE Justin Park (’13) Wins Prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Third in the series is an interview with Lauren Ballard (’12), who worked with dozens of surviving original editions of Susanna Rowson’s novel Charlotte Temple housed at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
From February 22nd to 24th, the UC Berkeley English Department hosted its first ever Conference on Ecopoetics.
The Zachary Cruz Memorial Foundation has announced that Christina Teslich (English ’13) will be one of five UC Berkeley undergraduates to receive its 2012-13 scholarships.
READ MORE Christina Teslich (English ’13) Wins Zachary Cruz Memorial Scholarship
Second in the series is a reflection from Kathleen Miller (’13), who visited the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University.
READ MORE The Lure of the Archive (II): Kathleen Miller visits the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
On February 25th, spectators filled all 150 chairs in Wheeler’s Maude Fife auditorium to catch a glimpse of esteemed novelist and critic A.S. Byatt.
READ MORE The Function of Criticism in the Present Time: A Conversation with A. S. Byatt
The Holloway Poetry Series hosted a reading by Major Jackson on Tuesday, February 19. This was Holloway’s second event of the Spring semester, and around 40 professors, graduate students, undergraduates, and Berkeley residents showed up to make it a success.
READ MORE Holloway Poetry Series: Major Jackson + Allison Neal
Kicking off a new series of archival reflections by our undergraduates is a short piece from Amanda Licato (’13), who visited the Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe and the Jean Toomer archives at Yale’s Beinecke Library.
In February 2012 Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, brought forth a festschrift of essays in honor of Professor Emeritus Stephen Booth: forty short essays demonstrating various sorts of close reading in honor of the closest of all close readers.
READ MORE New Volume of Essays Published in Honor of Stephen Booth
