Category: People

In what follows, Professor Elizabeth Abel remembers Janet Adelman, a long-time fixture in the English Department, who died last spring.  Professor Abel gave these remarks at a memorial service that the English Department held for Janet earlier this fall. Read full post…

In what follows, Margaret Boehme, who graduated from Berkeley in 2005 and now writes for the NPR program The Writer’s Alamanc, reassures her parents about her writing career. Read full post…

This past September, Berkeley alumna Laura Wetherington (Class of ‘04) was notified that her manuscript A Map Predetermined and Chance was one of the five winners of the National Poetry Series’ Open Competition.  Read full post…

Licensed marriage and family therapist Ilene Wolf is now the Director of the Bay Area’s Drama Therapy Institute, but she got her start as an undergraduate English major at Berkeley.Read full post…

This past spring, at a meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco, Professor Cecil Giscombe was awarded the 2010 Stephen E. Henderson Prize by the African American Literature and Culture Society.  Read full post…

What follows is an account of a recent reading given by Georgina Kleege, a well-known essayist and a Lecturer in the English Department.  This event was part of the Berkeley Writers at Work series, a forum in which campus writers can discuss their writing process. Read full post…

What follows is an account of English alumnus Terry Borst (B.A., 1977) and the way his education in literature and creative writing somewhat unexpectedly placed him into a career involving computers and entertainment. Read full post…

Thomas Farber teaches creative writing in the English Department and runs El León Literary Arts, a small publishing house in Berkeley that has recently received much attention in the national publishing world. Read full post…

In what follows, recent graduate Tyler Shores gives a brief account of all the different paths down which his English major has taken him. Read full post…

To reignite the weekly stream of blog posts for this academic year, we take a look at the way one graduate student, Matthew Sergi, expanded on his scholarly week in medieval literature to produce a new play, Glory Glory, that ran for two weeks in San Francisco this summer. Read full post…

The English Department is delighted to announce that Professor Kathleen Donegan is this year’s recipient of the American Cultures Innovation in Teaching Award. This campus-wide award, given by the American Cultures Center, “recognizes the use of pedagogical developments to enhance the students’ learning experience in the American Cultures classroom.” Professor Donegan was awarded this distinction for the ENGL 166AC course she taught this past Fall, “Race and Revision in Early America.” Read full post…

Seven of our graduate students received the University’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award this year in recognition of their excellence as instructors of Reading and Composition. Read full post…

The English Department is pleased to congratulate a number of its students who won awards from the University this year. Below is a list of their names and the prizes they were awarded. Read full post…

In what follows, graduate student Frank Cruz describes a different kind of English Department event, “Zachary Day.” The day commemorated Frank’s son Zachary, who passed away unexpectedly on February 27, 2009, just two weeks before his sixth birthday, when he was hit and killed by an automobile as he crossed the street in Berkeley. Read full post…