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…
READ MORE Publishing at Berkeley: Thomas Farber and El León Arts
One of the most exciting things about the beginning of the semester this Fall is the launch of a new opportunity in the English Department for undergraduates: the Peter and Megan Chernin Mentorship Program. 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…
READ MORE Graduate Student Adds New Play to his Scholarly Production
Though the campus might be quiet during the summer, English Department students are keeping busy. Matthew Sergi, a doctoral candidate in the department, is presenting his new play in San Francisco — two weekends only!: Read details…
READ MORE GLORY GLORY, a new play by a Cal medievalist, opens in SF June 18
Like the rest of the campus, the English Department blog will be taking a summer break. If you have questions or suggestions for stories for next year, please feel free to email us at ucbenglish@gmail.com. In the meantime, have a restful and productive summer.
Professors Cecil Giscombe and Anne-Lise Francois each received awards for their recent work. 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…
READ MORE Professor Kathleen Donegan wins American Cultures Innovation in Teaching Award
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…
READ MORE Graduate Student Instructors Receive Teaching Awards
On a recent Thursday evening, the English Department gathered in the 
Maude Fife Room on the third floor of Wheeler Hall for the annual Charles Mills Gayley lecture, the department’s highest honor. The speaker that evening was Professor Ian Duncan, an expert in Victorian literature and Scottish Romanticism, whose talk was entitled “Darwin’s Voyage.” Read full post…
READ MORE Ian Duncan Delivers Annual Gayley Lecture, Department’s Highest Honor
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…
READ MORE English Department Congratulates its Award-Winning Students
In what follows, graduate student Marcelle Maese-Cohen gives a brief overview of a the talk, entitled “Situating Feminism,” that Columbia professor and world-famous critic Gayatri Spivak gave at Berkeley in February. Read full post…
The English Department is pleased to announce the Peter and Megan Chernin Mentorship Program, a new initiative that will build stronger and more informal connections among undergraduates, graduate students and faculty. Read full post…
READ MORE English Department Announces Chernin Mentoring Program for Undergraduates
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…
READ MORE Wheeler Hall Welcomes Children for Zachary Cruz Day
What follows is an account of a recent event, sponsored by a number of campus literary magazines and the newly-formed Solidary Alliance , in which students, faculty and community members came together for a poetry reading that expressed the frustration and outrage at the recent cuts to education in California. Read full post…
READ MORE Solidarity Reading Illustrates the Vitality and Importance of Berkeley Poetry
