Our Ranking
The Berkeley English Ph.D. program has been ranked the top graduate English program in the country, according to the most recent guide to "America's Best Colleges" published by the U.S. News and World Report. Faculty in the English Department have received more university Distinguished Teaching Awards—25—than any other department.
Featured Events
Duy Nguyen: "Surveillance and Spectacle in Nguoi Thu Tam's Z.28 Novels"
January 31, 2012
5:00 pm
Speaker: Duy Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine
300 Wheeler
Reception to follow (330 Wheeler).
Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
January 27 & 28, 2012
The performance will begin at 8 pm.
315 Wheeler.
News
Donna Jones receives the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Namwali Serpell wins a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
Jennifer Miller wins UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award for 2011
Notes on Recent Accomplishments of our Graduate Students
Read the department's most recent newsletter to find our publications and accomplishments for the past year.
Visit the English Department blog! You'll find updates on faculty, alumni, and friends; selections from our poets and fiction writers; and other exciting news. If you would like to contribute or suggest topics, email Monica Huerta, Kevis Goodman, or Catherine Gallagher.