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 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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