Department News

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."

September 26, 2025

"What is the appropriate form with which to tell the story of the African postcolonial state?" A Q&A with Professor Farah Bakaari

September 22, 2025

UC Berkeley English Welcomes Professor Farah Bakaari

August 28, 2025

UC Berkeley English Welcomes Professor Alexandra Lossada

August 28, 2025

Professor Mark Goble's "Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion," Published

UC Berkeley English Lecturer Jasper Bernes' "The Future of Revolution," Published

Author Annie Barrows Delivers 2025 UC Berkeley English Commencement Address

PhD Student Nica Giromini Franklin's "Hostile Architectures" Wins Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Contest

Professor Elisa Tamarkin to Deliver 2025 Charles Mills Gayley Lecture

"Latinx Literature in Transition, Vol. 2," Edited by Professor John Alba Cutler and Marissa K. López, Published

Professor Colleen Lye Receives Honorable Mention in AAAS Excellence in Mentoring Award

"Collaborating with artists in the context of organizing...has been a constant to my community work," a Q&A with 2025 Holloway Poet Cecily Nicholson

Fiona McFarlane's "Highway Thirteen," Wins The Story Prize

"Poet in the New World," New Collection of Czesław Miłosz's Poetry Translated by Robert Hass and David Frick Published

February 24, 2025

Prof. Fiona McFarlane's "Highway Thirteen" Named Finalist for The Story Prize

January 14, 2025

UC Berkeley English Welcomes Cecily Nicholson as Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry

January 14, 2025

Joy Williams to Give 2025 Lecture in Bedri Distinguished Writers Series

January 10, 2025

World Humanities Report, directed by UC Berkeley English Professor Sara Guyer, warns of extinction risk to human knowledge

October 17, 2024

UC Berkeley English Welcomes Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Ben Fountain in Conversation with Professor Mark Danner

October 11, 2024

"Pasados," New Journal in Latinx Literary Studies Co-Founded by Prof. John Alba Cutler, Launches

September 16, 2024