On Oct 7, at 4 pm, we are taking an afternoon to celebrate 25 years of phenomenal literatures from across the African continent. Join us for an afternoon with author Namwali Serpell and to take a look at the opening of the Celebrating 21st Century African Literatures exhibit in Doe Library.

Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!

One of the things I most want the history of slow motion to show us,” @ucberkeleyenglish Professor Mark Goble says, “is that speed can take many forms, and that so often when we say that something is “fast” or “slow” we are talking about incredibly complex ways of experiencing.” Don’t miss our Q&A!

📚✨In our latest Faculty Voices feature, Professor David Marno reflects on what teaching at UC Berkeley has meant to him—how it’s evolved over time, how it is shaped by ideas of attention as a practice, and why the sustained work of engaging students matters today. Check out English.Berkeley.edu

TODAY. 12:30. SPROUL STEPS.

Join us on the Sproul Steps tomorrow, 3/19, at 12:30pm to show your support for our remarkable public university. Let’s show each other and the world that we will defend and protect the right of every last member of our community to speak, learn, teach, research and work in safety and freedom.

Have you heard of Read Along with Berkeley English? We’re excited to invite all alum and friends of Berkeley English to our tonight’s Spring 2025 event with poet and Professor Geoffrey G. O’Brien! For more information on the series and how to join, see english.berkeley.edu/read-along-b...

Big Give is here! Join the whole UC Berkeley community as we rally in support of our community of students, faculty, and programs. In English, you can help unlock a generous $5,000 matching gift challenge!

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💫The Holloway Poetry Series is back! 💫 🙌We’re excited to welcome another fantastic group of poets this semester and hope you can join us for a reading by Margaret Ross on Wednesday, February 12th, at 5:30 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).

For more info, check out Holloway.berkeley.edu

We’ve arrived - so has Spring 2025! Spring is stacked with amazing events and the whole @ucberkeley Dept. of English community doing incredible things. See: english.berkeley.edu.

And oh yes - hello @bsky.app and a hearty goodbye to the other unnamed text-based platform. We’re delighted to be here.