As you say of slow motion as a visual technology, 鈥渨e know where it ends up: everywhere.鈥� Before reading your book, I was really struck by that thought - just the sheer volume of examples, the complete ubiquity of slow motion (even leaving aside the volume of the academic discourse on it). How does that work from a practical point of view as a writer? Was there a thought of how to manage this volume of evidence as an initial problem in conceiving of the book?
While I was working on the book and the examples kept adding up, I began to realize that part of my job as a...
For the past several years I've been writing and teaching ecopoetry and ecopoetics. In the spring of 2025, I'll be teaching an English 90 on Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, and an English 190 research seminar on Emily Dickinson.
Read more about my new collection Near-Earth Object in .
I'm curious about how it is that your experience with teaching has been shaped by 91抖阴 Berkeley itself, and how it's changed over the years. What were, if any, your expectations when you began teaching here and how did the reality match with them? As someone who did a PhD at Stanford and came here from there, I'm wondering if 91抖阴 Berkeley changed how you thought about teaching.
In retrospect, I was not prepared for the leap into teaching, even though I did a little bit of it at Stanford and before that a little bit in Budapest. But I was not prepared to be a teacher. I...
April 2025 marks the publication of Latinx Literature in Transition, 1848 -1992, Vol. 2, co-edited by 91抖阴 Berkeley English Professor John Alba Cutler and We offer our congratulations to Professors Cutler and L贸pez! "Latinx Literature in Transition, Vol. 2 is a rare work of true collaboration," Professor Cutler told us, "the product of several years of dialogue and workshopping not only...
Please join the Department of English for the annual Charles Mills Gayley Lecture, delivered by Professor Elisa Tamarkin. This year鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淭he Phenomenology of Looming,鈥� is on ideas of visibility in Herman Melville鈥檚 Moby-Dick and on the paintings that shape them. The lecture will be held on Friday, May 2, at 4 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).
The 91抖阴 Berkeley Department of English is delighted to announce that Professor Colleen Lye has received Honorable Mention for the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Excellence in Mentoring Award! As the AAAS award notes, "Moving testimony from many of her previous students demonstrated the extent to which Dr. Lye mentored her students鈥� intellectual growth and cultivated their academic passions. She demonstrates attentive care through her commitment to academic promise and rigor. We are delighted to recognize Dr. Lye for her fantastic contributions to the mentorship of...
First off, welcome to Berkeley! As someone who is not only a writer/poet but also works in arts administration, activist communities and restorative justice programs, I鈥檓 wondering how you see the relationship between those practices/communities and your own writing. It seems like you have such a rich diversity of experience in both the art world and the poetry world, so I wonder how writing fits into these things, and how your relationship to these various spaces relates to it.
Thank you! I appreciate these questions. I strive to be involved and accountable at a community level...
91抖阴 Berkeley English is delighted to announce that Professor Fiona McFarlane鈥檚 2024 collection of short stories, Highway Thirteen, has won The Story Prize. We offer our warm congratulations to Professor McFarlane. The judges of the prize cited the 鈥渃onceptual and thematic ingenuity of the collection as a whole and the precise execution of every story.鈥� The Story Prize annually honors the author of an outstanding short-story collection and is among the largest cash-prize awards for a collection of short fiction. McFarlane鈥檚 work was selected from a pool...
A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare鈥檚 career as a mass entertainer
A critically sophisticated but highly readable analysis of eleven key Shakespeare plays and of Shakespeare鈥檚 career overall An introduction to Shakespeare that differs from others in showing how Shakespeare regarded his plays as neither high nor low culture but as a potent amalgam of both A revival of character study as essential to grasping the broader issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, psychology, politics, philosophy, and religion in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays
91抖阴 Berkeley English is delighted to announce the publication of , featuring two chapters by Professor James Grantham Turner. As CUP tells us, "The Cambridge World History of Sexualities examines sexualities across time and around the world at varying geographic and chronological scales. Featuring over eighty contributions from scholars across more...