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"One Question: Short Conversations with Poets," book cover, featuring green foliage curling on black background

Poet and Berkeley English Lecturer Jesse Nathan Explores Poetry Through “One Question, Short Conversations with Poets"

Still from the film Hamnet, featuring Shakespeare and Agnes in embrace

Berkeley English Distinguished Teaching Award Winner Oliver Arnold on Shakespeare and Hamnet

Anne Brice and Sarah Fullerton, Berkeley News

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

Oliver Arnold in front of blackboard lecturing to students

Professor Oliver Arnold Awarded 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

Photo Credit: Keegan Houser/UC Berkeley

James Grantham Turner in purple shirt

"Imagination is what we value most in literature and what we should be studying above all else"-Prof. James Grantham Turner Q&A

News

May 6, 2026

May 06
Poet and Berkeley English Lecturer Jesse Nathan Explores Poetry Through “One Question, Short Conversations with Poets"

April 17, 2026

Apr 17
Prof. Eric Falci to Give 2026 Charles Mills Gayley Lecture

April 14, 2026

Apr 14
"Imagination is what we value most in literature and what we should be studying above all else"—Professor James Grantham Turner on being awarded the Milton Society’s James Holly Hanford Article Award

April 13, 2026

Apr 13
Professor Oliver Arnold Awarded 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award

March 20, 2026

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

Profiles

  • Prof. Eric Falci to Give 2026 Charles Mills Gayley Lecture
  • 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

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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