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Angel's passion towards her major, Comparative Literature, lies in how she embraces the intersection of literature, history, and philosophy. Her Filipino background and culture cultivated her interests in Slavic classics, postcolonial theory, theology, and the revolutionary past. 

Summer 18 Comparative Literature ...

Undergrads Andrew Kuznetsov ... (shown) and Gilad Barach, along with grad student Yael Eshelovitz, have all won the Anne & Benjamin Goor Prize for Jewish Studies.  Congratulations!  Go here for more information.  

Prospective students turned out ... and their familes descended on the Berkeley campus for Cal Day.  The largest group to attend a Comp Lit presentation in recent memory came to Dora Zhang's "All the Feels:  Race, Literature and Emotion" presentation.  Comp Lit undergrads Tadeo Ilarde and Annabel Jankovic are shown as they staff the Comp Lit table.

Berkeley Professor Niklaus Largier... of German and Comparative Literature—joins forces with Professors Mayanthi Fernando and Michael Warner—of UC Santa Cruz and Yale, respectively—for one of a series of Sawyer Seminars orbiting “religious objects, rituals, and encounters" in a presentation on February 6th, 2019.  From the podium, Largier discusses Mechthild of Magdeburg’s 13th century, The Flowing Light of the Godhead—a text widely received as (and perhaps reduced to) a testament to religious experience.

Saul Schwartz (PhD Princeton, 2015) is the 2018-2019 postdoctoral fellow for the department’s Sawyer Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies.

We had a great turnout for this year’s Weisinger lecture, hosted by the Townsend Center.  This year’s presenter was Thomas Ostermeier, the head of the famed Schaubühne theater in Berlin, and in collaboration with the German Department and Cal Performances, the presentation was followed by his production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at Zellerbach Auditorium.

Please join us in congratulating Judith Butler, Karina Palau, and other award recipients at Excellence in Advising awards reception and ceremony on Wednesday, December 12th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. We look forward to celebrating the truly great advising that is being done at Berkeley and the collective accomplishments of our entire advising community.

Carmela Martinez has won ... a Fulbright Scholarship and she will serve as an English teaching assistant in Hamburg, Germany.  Congratulations Carmela!