Tag: Interview

Teaching and Writing at Berkeley: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates

Published date August 27, 2013

In 2012-13, the English Department hosted Joyce Carol Oates, whose usual home is Princeton, as a visiting professor. While here, she taught a creative writing workshop on “short fiction” to a very lucky group of undergraduates. Our own Donald McQuade recently had the opportunity to interview Oates about her experience teaching and writing at Berkeley.

Critical Agitations: An Interview with Steven Goldsmith

Published date August 16, 2013

Recently, graduate student Joe Albernaz had the opportunity to talk with Professor Steven Goldsmith about his new book, Blake’s Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions. The result was a lively interview on William Blake, affect theory, and critical “enthusiasm.”

The Virtues of Excrement: Lili Loofbourow on Blogging and the Academic Life

Published date April 21, 2013

Lili Loofbourow is a seventh-year graduate student, who works on early modern constructions of reading as a form of eating—theologically, physiologically, etc.

The Lure of the Archive (III): Lauren Ballard (’12), Susanna Rowson, and The American Antiquarian Society

Published date March 20, 2013

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.