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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