Teaching – The Wheeler Column

Kathleen Donegan Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

Published date March 18, 2015

Professor Donegan, along this year’s other DTA winners, will be honored at a public ceremony on April 21st at 5pm in the Zellerbach Playhouse. Click here to watch a video about this year’s winners. Kathleen Donegan, Associate Professor and Director of the Berkeley Connect Program in the English Department, has received a Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the 27th Distinguished Teaching Award won...

On Teaching in the English Department

Published date January 24, 2015

In Spring 2014, Rebecca Solnit taught a course in prose nonfiction at Berkeley. This is her account of some of the joys and difficulties encountered in teaching the course.

“I have never seen myself teach before”: Maura Nolan on Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley

Published date April 20, 2014

Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley aired on PBS in January 2014, clocking in at 4 hours and 4 minutes long. The documentary centers on extended, intimate looks inside Berkeley classrooms and administrative meetings. Of these classrooms, two happened to hold classes being conducted by English Department professors: one by Professor Mitch Breitwieser and another by Professor Maura Nolan. Here,...

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Kathleen Donegan Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

On Teaching in the English Department

“I have never seen myself teach before”: Maura Nolan on Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley