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Then / Now / Next: Actor John Cho on finding independence and identity at UC Berkeley - Berkeley News How Berkeley changed everything — from landing his first role to discovering what it means to be Asian American.

How Berkeley changed everything for John Cho — from landing his first role to discovering what it means to be Asian American. news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/04/t...

Don’t miss the last Holloway Reading of fall 2025! Award winning author and poet Harryette Mullen will join us tomorrow, November 4, at 5:30 pm in the Maude Fife Room.

Photo: Judy Natal

Join us tomorrow, at 5:30 pm, for “Poet in a New World.” Robert Hass, Karol Berger, and Peter Dale Scott read and discuss new Czesław Miłosz translations. Hear newly translated poems by Czesław Miłosz and a conversation about poetry, translation, history, and political and aesthetic struggle.

It’s tonight! Join us at 6 pm pt on Zoom, see link in bio for more info.

It’s today at 1!! Join us on Zoom (or come by Wheeler) to celebrate the work and career of Professor Charles Altieri. Tributes to Charlie will begin at 1 and the event will be live streamed - link below and in bio, please feel free to join!

berkeley.zoom.us/j/98543818024

We’re excited to welcome Alexandra Lossada to Berkeley English as Assistant Professor! She brings her strengths as a scholar, researcher, and teacher of Latinx, Chicanx, and contemporary American ethnic literatures. Learn more about her and her work in our second New Faculty Voices Q&A, link in bio!

Portrait of Professor David Marno, along with illustration by Arthur Rackham from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” featuring sprites, fairies in a circle playing instruments while characters from the play are gathered round them.

Image showing Read Along’s 3 sessions in Fall 2025, all at 6 pm pt on Zoom. October 21: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. November 18: John Donne’s poetry. December 9, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. All sessions on zoom, link in bio.

Are you an alum or friend of Berkeley English? Have you heard of Read Along with Berkeley English? Join us with Professor David Marno for our first Fall 2025 Open Office hour! Next Tuesday, October 21 at 6 pm pt on Zoom, we’ll discuss William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Link in bio!

Apology and Apostrophe: Animating Native American Absence in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas This talk by Brandi Bushman tracks the apology as a rhetorical form across two impacted sites of narrative production. Buried within the 2010 Depar...

Join us on Tue, Oct 28, at 12pm for a hybrid event with Brandi Bushman: Apology and Apostrophe: Animating Native American Absence in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas

📍 Native Community Center in Anthony Hall at UC Berkeley & on Zoom

Register today: bit.ly/BushmanCRNAI

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Portrait of Professor Namwali Serpell with “Afternoon with Namwali Serpell” event title and October 7, 4 pm, Morrison library information. Photos/collage of Prof. Serpell’s published works in background.

On Oct 7, at 4 pm, we are taking an afternoon to celebrate 25 years of phenomenal literatures from across the African continent. Join us for an afternoon with author Namwali Serpell and to take a look at the opening of the Celebrating 21st Century African Literatures exhibit in Doe Library.

Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!

One of the things I most want the history of slow motion to show us,” @ucberkeleyenglish Professor Mark Goble says, “is that speed can take many forms, and that so often when we say that something is “fast” or “slow” we are talking about incredibly complex ways of experiencing.” Don’t miss our Q&A!

Portrait of Professor David Marno featuring the quote “I thought to myself, oh my God, this could be a conversation! That was a new experience. what happened in that class and what was magical was the fact that the moment I stopped talking, they were eager to say things and ask questions…”

📚✨In our latest Faculty Voices feature, Professor David Marno reflects on what teaching at UC Berkeley has meant to him—how it’s evolved over time, how it is shaped by ideas of attention as a practice, and why the sustained work of engaging students matters today. Check out English.Berkeley.edu

TODAY. 12:30. SPROUL STEPS.

Join us on the Sproul Steps tomorrow, 3/19, at 12:30pm to show your support for our remarkable public university. Let’s show each other and the world that we will defend and protect the right of every last member of our community to speak, learn, teach, research and work in safety and freedom.

Have you heard of Read Along with Berkeley English? We’re excited to invite all alum and friends of Berkeley English to our tonight’s Spring 2025 event with poet and Professor Geoffrey G. O’Brien! For more information on the series and how to join, see english.berkeley.edu/read-along-b...

Photo shows UC Berkeley Big Give icon with “Be the Light” in a star shape, and reel of photos including Wheeler Hall, students walking through the Liza Wachter foyer in Wheeler, and the office door of the department of English.

Big Give is here! Join the whole UC Berkeley community as we rally in support of our community of students, faculty, and programs. In English, you can help unlock a generous $5,000 matching gift challenge!

givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...

💫The Holloway Poetry Series is back! 💫 🙌We’re excited to welcome another fantastic group of poets this semester and hope you can join us for a reading by Margaret Ross on Wednesday, February 12th, at 5:30 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).

For more info, check out Holloway.berkeley.edu

We’ve arrived - so has Spring 2025! Spring is stacked with amazing events and the whole @ucberkeley Dept. of English community doing incredible things. See: english.berkeley.edu.

And oh yes - hello @bsky.app and a hearty goodbye to the other unnamed text-based platform. We’re delighted to be here.