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Roni Masel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, and holds the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Jewish Studies. Professor Masel’s main research interests include Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, and postcolonial...Read more about "How do you read?" From Bad Readers to Fantastic Beasts: Roni Masel's Journey Through Language and Literature

Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Ph.D. candidate Darcy Tuttle has been awarded the Donald and Maria Cox | Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize in ancient studies, one of the most prestigious honors in the humanities.

Her research...Read more about Rome Prize honors Berkeley graduate student’s journey into the ancient world

The Division of Arts & Humanities is delighted to share that two of our esteemed faculty members—Solmaz Sharif (English) and Kim Shelton (Ancient Greek & Roman Studies)—were honored at the 2024/25 College of Letters & Science Faculty Awards Ceremony...Read more about Solmaz Sharif (English) and Kim Shelton (Ancient Greek & Roman Studies) Receive L&S Faculty Awards

There’s a word UC Berkeley comparative literature Ph.D. student Frank Cahill will never forget. He...Read more about The world’s top spelling bee is coming up. This Berkeley Ph.D. student built the word list.

This I’m a Berkeleyan was written as a first-person narrative compiled from a UC Berkeley News interview with student Daniela Guadalupe Castellanos, who’s graduating this May.

This is my third year at Berkeley, but I’m graduating already. I am from northeast Sacramento, a really...Read more about Majoring in gender and women’s studies and Minoring in Spanish helped this graduate find her voice

“What they were really touching was each other,” says French Professor Henry Ravenhall. “The book was just a conduit for whatever kind of social desire was needed to be expressed within that group.”

As a specialist in medieval French literature, Henry Ravenhall has examined...Read more about Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

Leah Binkovitz (History of Art, ‘10), a senior editorial writer at the Houston Chronicle, has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing as part of the Chronicle’s editorial board. The winning series, “...Read more about Leah Binkovitz, History of Art (‘10), Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

This I’m a Berkeleyan was written as a first-person narrative from a UC Berkeley News interview with student Emily Thompson, who’s graduating this May with a major in film and media and a minor in Scandinavian studies.

“I grew up one of five kids in a very conservative, Mormon...Read more about After wilderness therapy, this graduate found her own path at UC Berkeley

The division is proud to announce that Professor Hannah Ginsborg in the Department of Philosophy, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2025. Ginsborg, who has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1988, is recognized for her innovative scholarship on Immanuel Kant’s...Read more about Hannah Ginsborg (Philosophy) Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

We are proud to share that two exceptional graduate students from the Division of Arts & Humanities have been named 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellows by the American Academy in Rome, one of the most esteemed honors in the humanities and arts.

...Read more about Two A&H Graduate Students Receive Prestigious 2025–26 Rome Prize

The Armenian language and literature program at Berkeley will be supported in perpetuity thanks to an effort led by alum Eric Esrailian (B.A. ‘96 Integrative Biology) and his family.

When Dr. Esrailian first came to Berkeley in the early 1990s, it...Read more about “It’s part of our identity.” New endowed fund will support Armenian language and literature at Berkeley

On a sunny Saturday in March, dozens of onlookers watched Jasmine Nyende charge, pull, twist, and duck under ropes held by six other performers. Nearby, portable speakers blared punk rock. Nyende’s performance — titled “Sankofa Moshpit” — was a joyful memorial to her late friend, Láwû. It...Read more about Out in Richmond, an unusual facility hosts UC Berkeley’s MFA art studios

It’s hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a response in a different sense, was first documented. Scientific literature marks its beginning in 1812, when it appeared as an aside in a Bavarian medical student’s...Read more about Do vowels have colors? According to some with synesthesia, yes.

Orestes Sophocleous is a re-entry undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. He is majoring in Film and Media with a minor in Rhetoric. He is currently a teaching assistant for Film 155, under professor Nicole Starosielski, on film infrastructure. Outside of academia, Orestes has a...Read more about Between theory and practice: A Re-Entry Student's Experience with Film and Media

This month, The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) at the University of California, Berkeley, launched the Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure(link is external), the...Read more about Professor Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) launches world's first certificate in internet infrastructure at Berkeley

Nataliia Goshylyk is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, where she teaches Ukrainian. Dr. Goshylyk received her M.A. in Philology from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, and her PhD in linguistics from Kharkiv National University. She is the...Read more about Language, Identity, and Ecolinguistics: An Interview with Nataliia Goshylyk on Teaching Ukrainian at Berkeley

In the novel Highway Thirteen(link is external), we learn about an Australian serial killer in bits and pieces. He kills hitchhikers and tourists, dumping their bodies in a state forest. He drives a taxi. His...Read more about Novel ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

South African artist William Kentridge is not interested in being certain. With certainty, he believes, comes a stuckness. Whether as a way of making artwork or in thinking about the world, certainty closes a person off to a more expansive creativity, to seeing all the possibilities that aren’t...Read more about William Kentridge’s ‘The Great Yes, The Great No’ is a voyage of chaos and creativity