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None Like Us, By Stephen Best

The literary critic Stephen Best begins his 2018 book, “None Like Us,” in notice of a “communitarian impulse” in Black studies. “It announces itself in the assumption that in writing about the black...Read more about The New Yorker: "None Like Us" by Stephen Best makes the "What We're Reading This Summer" List

"I plan to graduate in spring 2023, and my honors thesis is about language discourse and colonialism. This topic has been inspired by all the critical theory courses I have been able to take at Berkeley that have allowed me to make tangible connections between the lived realities I take with me...Read more about Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow des marie jackson: ‘Find purpose by staying centered in your passions’

The Division of Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce Professor Stephen Best as the new director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, effective July 1, 2022.

Stephen is professor in the department of English, holds...Read more about Stephen Best Appointed as New Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley

The course was part of the program New Strategies for the Humanities at Berkeley, a Mellon Foundation grant housed in the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) under the Division of Arts & Humanities. It was also designated as a course in the Course...Read more about Students build earthen ovens using inflatable molds, learn about colonialism, food studies, sustainability

In Berkeley Talks episode 141(link is external), a panel of scholars discuss the work of Roman Vishniac, a renowned Russian...Read more about Berkeley Talks: Scholars on Roman Vishniac’s photos of Jewish life before WWII

This Sunday, May 22, marks the in-person return of Breath of Life to the Berkeley campus. Now in its 27th year, it was last held at Berkeley in 2018. It moved online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Running through May 28, the event is sponsored by...Read more about After pandemic hiatus, Native American language survival workshop returns to campus

Department of Rhetoric Ph.D. Candidate Linda Kinstler has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.Read more about Rhetoric Ph.D. Candidate Linda Kinstler Awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Hilton Als, celebrated writer, theater critic, and Teaching Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of English, has been announced as a recipient of the 2022 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing.

Als is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and a theater critic for The New Yorker...Read more about Hilton Als Named as Recipient of 2022 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing

The Berkeley Language Center announces the winners of its undergraduate contest, "Exploring the Boundaries of Translation."Read more about The winners of the Exploring the Boundaries of Translation contest

It was fall 2019 when Katherine Snyder, an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, first taught her course Climate Fiction.Read more about English professor on climate fiction: Powerful, terrifying — and inspiring

Anjika Pai, a major in environmental sciences and minor in music, is the 2022 winner of the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor for a graduating senior.Read more about In top graduating senior, East Coast grit meets Berkeley utopianism

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the
Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Founding
Director of the Critical Theory Program as well as the International Consortium of Critical
Theory...Read more about Judith Butler Receives the 33rd Catalonia International Prize

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2020 was a fruitful year for conspiracy theories: QAnon gained followers, COVID-19 misinformation proliferated in viral YouTube videos, and in November,...Read more about Science Friday: How To Spot A Conspiracy Theory with Tim Tangherlini