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Elisa Tamarkin headshot in brown top with books in background, image of "Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon"

Professor Elisa Tamarkin's "Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon" Published

Doctors and Nurses in action in hospital, still from HBO's "The Pitt"

What makes HBO’s ‘The Pitt’ feel so real? Two Berkeley English alums who bring the show to life explain

Anne Brice and Sarah Fullerton, Berkeley News

Jesmyn Ward in Black Top with White Background

Jesmyn Ward to Deliver 2026 Lecture in the Bedri Distinguished Writers Series

Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Book Cover of Thomas Farber's "Reckonings" featuring paiting of William Blake's "The Simoniac Pope"

Q&A with Berkeley English Senior Lecturer Emeritus Thomas Farber on "Reckonings"

John Shoptaw

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

News

March 20, 2026

Mar 20
Professor Elisa Tamarkin's "Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon," Published

February 17, 2026

Feb 17
Jesmyn Ward to Deliver 2026 Lecture in Bedri Distinguished Writers Series

February 13, 2026

Feb 13
Reckonings: A Q&A with Berkeley English Senior Lecturer Emeritus Thomas Farber

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

Profiles

  • Reckonings: A Q&A with Berkeley English Senior Lecturer Emeritus Thomas Farber
  • UC Berkeley English Welcomes Professor Farah Bakaari
  • 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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