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John Shoptaw on the Music of Emily Dickinson's Poetry and "Emily -- No Prisoners Be"

- Anne Brice, Berkeley News

Tan background with book cover of Dora Zhang's edited edition of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"

Professor Dora Zhang's Edition of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" Published

Book cover of Charles Altieri's Imaginative Experience in the Arts featuring a painting of a nude figure

Professor Charles Altieri's "Imaginative Experience in the Arts" Published

Book cover of Kevis Goodman's "Pathologies of Motion"

Professor Kevis Goodman's "Pathologies of Motion" Awarded 2025 Robert Lowry Patten Award

Detail from Daniel Maclise's painting "The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife" (c.1854

PhD Student Annabel Barry on "The Marriage Plot in Irish Literature," R1A and a Virtual Rare Books Exhibition

Detail from Daniel Maclise's painting "The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife" (c.1854)

News

February 4, 2026

Feb 04
Norton Edition of "A Room of One's Own," Edited by Professor Dora Zhang, Published

February 3, 2026

Feb 03
Professor Charles Altieri's "Imaginative Experience in the Arts" Published

January 9, 2026

Jan 09
Professor Kevis Goodman's "Pathologies of Motion" Awarded 2025 Robert Lowry Patten Award

December 2, 2025

Dec 02
Berkeley English Undergraduate Major Emily Shanmugam Wins First Place in 2025 Jane Austen Society of North America Essay Contest

November 13, 2025

Nov 13
Professor Andrew Way Leong Awarded Major Grant for Tule Lake Literary Journal Translation Project

Profiles

  • UC Berkeley English Welcomes Professor Farah Bakaari
  • Remembering the Life of Professor Donald Anthony McQuade | Obituary by Kelefa Sanneh
  • Q&A with Professor Alexandra Lossada: "I don’t find that the story of immigration can be told by exclusively focusing on one demographic, but rather I want to see how different groups are narrating their histories and stories through literature."
  • "What is the appropriate form with which to tell the story of the African postcolonial state?" A Q&A with Professor Farah Bakaari
  • UC Berkeley English Lecturer Magdalena Ostas' "What We Are in Literature and Art," Published

New Edited Volume

Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," Edited by Dora Zhang

New Book

Reckonings

New Edited Volume

Holocaust and Hope: Literature, Testimony, Media | Edited by Kevis Goodman and Brian McGrath
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