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UC Berkeley English

@UCBEnglish

The English Department at University of California, Berkeley. No longer actively updated. Check us out on Bluesky, Instagram and Threads.

Berkeley, CA Katılım Mart 2015
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Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities@townsend_center·
Alexander Nemerov, the 2024-25 Una's Lecturer, is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of English Elisa Tamarkin on Tuesday, October 22 at 5:00pm in the Geballe Room.
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UC Berkeley Library
UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
It’s brat summer. 💚 brat = Berkeley reads all the time 📚 Explore the e(xcx)ellent books — picked by Cal students, faculty, and staff — on @UCBerkeley’s Summer Reading List. 🔗 reading.berkeley.edu
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UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” ✨ June Jordan, a trailblazing queer poet, was born #OTD in 1936. Jordan was a @Cal professor and founded Poetry for the People, or P4P. She lives on through P4P, which teaches students the power of poetry to change the world. 🌎🕊️
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UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
Need the *perfect* read for Pride Month? 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️ Put the LGB (Let’s Get Books) in LGBTQ+ with the Library’s reading list, featuring: 🌞 “Icarus” by @KaylaAncrum 💊 “All-Night Pharmacy” by @ruthmadievsky 💪 “The Male Gazed” by @bmanuelucberk.li/pride-month-20…
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UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
“‘None of us understand what we’re doing’ but we do beautiful things anyway.” 🏳️‍🌈✨ Allen Ginsberg was born #OTD in 1926. “Howl” is a defining work of LGBTQ+ and Beat literature. Ginsberg finished “Howl” while living in Berkeley, where he’d enrolled as a grad student at @Cal.
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Cal Bears History
Cal Bears History@CalBearsHistory·
George R. Stewart, @Cal MA 1920 & Prof. of English 1923-1980, was born May 31, 1895. If you're looking for a post-apocalyptic novel set in Berkeley after most of humanity is wiped out by plague, try "Earth Abides," Stewart's 1949 novel that inspired Stephen King's "The Stand."
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UC Berkeley Library
UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
“Men go and come, but earth abides.” 🌎✨ Author George R. Stewart, born #OTD in 1895: 🐻 Earned an M.A. from Cal in 1920 ✏️ Was a @UCBEnglish professor 🎸 Inspired Stephen King, Jimi Hendrix, and more 🏛️ Used Doe Library as a setting in the sci-fi classic “Earth Abides”
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Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley
Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley@PoemsLunch·
we're *thrilled* to partner with @CODEXFoundation this year to bring letterpress printing to the Berkeley / Lunch Poems community. they're holding a letterpress printing workshop 7/27 to prepare for '24 LP reader Sherwin Bitsui. Info here —  codexfoundation.org/events
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UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
📚✨ RRR week vibe check ✨🐻 Whether you’re feeling … anxious eager overwhelmed enthusiastic concerned confident … the @UCBerkeley Library is here for you! 💙🏛️💛
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UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
“We read books to find out who we are.” 📚✨🐻 — Ursula K. Le Guin, author + Berkeley native Happy #WorldBookDay! Find a book, cozy up, and read to your heart’s delight. P.S. We know just the place. 😉🏛️💙
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New Literary Project
New Literary Project@NewLitProject·
Congratulations to Idra Novey, author of Take What You Need on being a finalist for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Read about this year's finalists on our website. Link in bio.
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UC Berkeley Library
UC Berkeley Library@UCBerkeleyLib·
✨🐻 Premiering tonight! 📺✨ Don’t miss HBO’s “The Sympathizer,” based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by @UCBerkeley alum Viet Thanh Nguyen. Q&A: We recently talked with Nguyen about activism, libraries, and life at Cal. ⏩ ucberk.li/nguyen
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UC Berkeley English@UCBEnglish·
This year’s Gayley Lecture will be presented by Professor Stephen Best, Rachael Anderson Stageberg Chair in English and Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Professor Best’s lecture is entitled “Baldwin’s Inarticulacy.” 5 PM, Thursday, April 18, Wheeler Hall, 315
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