In “On the Scene,” a series on theater, we ask current graduate students with an interest in theater to review select local plays. The ninth piece in the series is a review by Christopher Patrick Miller of The Shotgun Players’ production of Our Town at the Ashby Stage.
Anne earned her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1993, taught for three years at the University of Colorado as an Assistant Professor, and then came home to the Bay Area after joining the faculty at Sonoma State. Nominated for a National Magazine Award, “Stargazing in the Atomic Age” appeared in the Georgia Review in 2006 and was listed as a “notable” essay in Best American Essays 2007.
David Adam Getman, a brilliant writer, artist, son, brother, and friend, died in a traffic accident in the early morning hours of August 25th, 2014. David, who was a 2010 graduate of the Milken Community Schools in Los Angeles, is survived by his three sisters and his parents.
Karen Leibowitz was a graduate student in the department from 2001 to 2008 and returned as a post-doctoral fellow during the 2010-2011 school year. She is now a food writer who has published in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, and Modern Farmer as well as a partner in restaurants including Mission Chinese Food and Commonwealth in San Francisco and Mission Cantina in New York City.
On October 14, 2014, Rob Loewinsohn, a beloved member of the department, passed away.
In “On the Scene,” a series on theater, we ask current graduate students with an interest in theater to review select local plays. The eighth piece in the series is a review by Aileen Liu of The Shotgun Players’ production of Harry Thaw Hates Everybody at the Ashby Stage.
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Recently, Stephen Booth’s work on Shakespeare was profiled by the journal Nautilus. The elaborate piece juxtaposes Booth’s approach to Shakespeare with discoveries in cognitive science over the last several decades.
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Shannon Chamberlain is a seventh year graduate student in the department, specializing in eighteenth-century studies. Her dissertation is about Adam Smith and the rise of the British novel, and this summer, she had the opportunity to turn some of that research into a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly. This is her account of what it was like to write on academic subjects for a non-academic audience.
The seventh piece in the “On the Scene” series is a review by Aileen Liu of The Shotgun Players’ production of Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom at the Ashby Stage.
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Every year, graduate students in the English department teach numerous sections of R1B, an introductory reading and composition course. At the end of the year, teachers submit their best students’ papers to be considered for an essay prize. This year’s winner was Celina Maiorano, whose essay, “Homesick for Horror: The Gothic of Nostalgia,” was written for Katie Fleishman’s course “American Beauties.”
READ MORE “Homesick for Horror”: Introducing the Winner of the R1B Essay Prize
The sixth piece in the series is a review by Aileen Liu of The Shotgun Players’ production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Ashby Stage.
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Every year, graduate students in the English department teach numerous sections of R1A, an introductory reading and composition course. At the end of the year, teachers submit their best students’ papers to be considered for an essay prize. This year’s winner was Clare Kim, whose essay, “Two Ways to Sell Children,” was written for Jesse Cordes Selbin’s course “Narratives We Live By.”
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Caitlin Lowe is a current student in the English Department at Cal (class of ’15). This summer, she was given the opportunity to pursue independent research through the Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grant. SURF is a campus-wide award that supports student research under the supervision of a faculty sponsor.
Author Rebecca Solnit (’84) taught a non-fiction writing course in the English Department this past spring. A number of her students in that course have had their final pieces accepted for publication. The first to appear in print is this tough piece by Ariel Zepeda on sexual violence at UC Berkeley.
READ MORE Student Publishes Powerful Essay on Sexual Violence at UC Berkeley
Arianna Huffington, of The Huffington Post, recently devoted several paragraphs to a 2009 speech by Professor Kathleen Donegan, entitled “Finding the Story.”
READ MORE Arianna Huffington Mentions Kathleen Donegan in Piece for New Graduates
