Category: Read Along with Berkeley English

Welcome: Amid our enforced separation, it seems like an apt time to reconnect through the idealized spaces of utopia. By semester’s end, hopefully it will seem as though both utopia and anti-utopia are all around us. I’m looking forward to hearing voices from beyond our empty, utopian campus. —Steven Lee “A map of the world that does not include Utopia...

Welcome: Thank you for joining this seminar. My hope is that you’ll be inspired to think more deeply about the American canon–about how race informs our sense of “American” literature, and why some works of literature are classified as “political” while others are not. –Stephen Best James Baldwin made little secret of the importance of Henry James to his creative...

Welcome: I am looking forward to working with members of the Reading Along group.  Traditionally, this course focuses on about 8 canonical modern African-American novels and autobiographies.  However, under the current situation, I have turned the course more toward the prehistory of the BLM movement. –Abdul R. JanMohamed This course will explore the foundation of systemic racism in US society by focusing on...