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The Division of Arts & Humanities has a number of esteemed faculty who have participated in the LMU-UCB program for humanities research. In this series, we interview faculty who have had enriching experiences as part of a visiting professorship or fellow. In 2007, the...Read more about Q&A with English Professor Ian Duncan, LMU-UCB Program Visiting Professor and Fellow

Read Professor Damon Young‘s piece on Power of the Dog and the Western in Public Books...Read more about Film & Media: Toxic Masculinity, Spectral Homosexuality

Now that Hispanic Heritage Month has arrived, I’ve realized that this is my second year at Berkeley (a little late for the realization, I know). The past year has really flown by — I remember being an admitted freshman and...Read more about English major Melissa Mora-Gonzalez on the Latinx experience at Berkeley

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It’s difficult to name just one thing that keeps me “up at night” these days. Lately, there have been so many coalescing catastrophes unfolding, both locally and globally, that my mind jumps from one to an-
other, trying and failing to find a...Read more about California Magazine: 'Up at Night' by Linda Kinstler

It’s no surprise that seats in Poulomi Saha’s course, Cults in Popular Culture, fill up fast. Cults have long fascinated Americans, who had no shortage of docu-series about them to binge-watch while isolated during the pandemic. Popular ones include “Wild Wild Country,” on the Rajneeshpuram...Read more about Berkeley News: In her course on cults, Poulomi Saha has students look beyond the headlines

Ishmael Reed has written over 30 books of poetry, prose, essays, and plays. He is also an editor of anthologies and magazines, a publisher, television producer, public media commentator, cartoonist, teacher and lecturer. Reed has penned lyrics for musicians ranging from Taj Mahal to Macy Gray....Read more about Professor Emeritus Ishmael Scott Reed (Dept of English) inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Set in the remote San Luis Valley of Colorado, Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands is a feature-length documentary film that follows design studio Rael San Fratello’s experimentation with 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture, presented by Cooper Hewitt,...Read more about Feature-length documentary 'Mud Frontier' follows Art Practice Chair Ronald Rael's Architecture at the Borderlands

A tradition that began in 1944 of Dutch royalty visiting UC Berkeley continued today with a visit to campus by Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. She was accompanied by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Dutch minister of education, culture and science, who announced the launch of the Dutch...Read more about Dutch Studies Program hosts visit from Queen Máxima of the Netherlands for launch of Global Research Network

In 1971, Her Majesty Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visited the UC Berkeley campus in honor of the founding of the first Dutch Studies program in the United States. She created the Princess Beatrix Chair of Dutch Language, Literature and Culture — later renamed the Queen...Read more about Donors honor Professor Emeritus Johan Snapper through new endowment for Dutch Studies

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut novel... After Sappho has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize! The judges write: "A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together...Read more about Selby Wynn Schwartz's (Comp Lit '05) book 'After Sappho' has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

On a sunny afternoon in November 2020, in front of Sweet Adeline Bakery in south Berkeley, Susan Moffat came upon a string quartet.

“Their playing was spectacular,” said Moffat, creative director of Future Histories Lab...Read more about Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

Art Practice professor Stephanie Syjuco's current exhibition Stephanie Syjuco: Double Vision reconsiders mythologies of the American West and reveals how these works and their presentation within a museum can perpetuate colonial lore. Double Vision creates an expansive...Read more about Art Practice professor Stephanie Syjuco's current exhibition 'Double Vision' reconsiders mythologies of the American West

Linda Kinstler's (Rhetoric PhD Candidate) new book Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, published by...Read more about Rhetoric Ph.D. candidate Linda's Kinstler's new book 'Come to this Court and Cry' receives international praise

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Associate Professor Poulomi Saha, English Department, dives deep into how Indian spirituality is ingrained into early American history. Professor Poulomi Saha, a scholar of...Read more about TEDxBerkeley: Poulomi Saha on Indian Spirituality at the Heart of the Early American Republic

The Division of Arts and Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce the appointment of Debarati Sanyal as director of the Consortium for...Read more about Debarati Sanyal appointed as new director of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research at UC Berkeley

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For a quarter century, ...Read more about PBS: Art Practice Chair Ronald Rael on Restoring one of Colorado’s most endangered places