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Farewell Jam

November 24, 2024

We have a farewell jam in Ishi ... Courtyard with Professor Tom McEnaney, Comp Lit/French adviser Tony Soyka, and Professor Rick Kern.

Beth Piatote's "Tricksters, Unite!" Featured in Short Play Festival

November 24, 2024

Professor Beth Piatote is a featured playwright in the 12th Annual Short Play Festival by Native Voices at the Autry. The festival includes two readings of Piatote's play, Tricksters, Unite! (March 20 at The Autry Museum and March 27 at La Jolla Playhouse).

Plays selected for this year's festival examine "Tricksters in their traditional form, but also in the modern roles they play today."

Tickets are available for free a TheAutry.org/NativeVoices.(...

Piatote Inspiration for New Student

November 24, 2024

Professor Beth Piatote is cited ... as an inspiration for Sariel Sandoval, a math and engineering Native American student from Montana. You can read the full story from Berkeley News here

Alumni News: Selby Wynn Schwartz Awarded the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award

November 24, 2024

Selby Wynn Schwartz (Ph.D., 2005)... was recently awarded the 2021 Reflex Press Novella Award for her first novella, A Life in Chameleons (forthcoming 2022), and her debut novel After Sappho...

Remote Commencement 2021

November 24, 2024

This year, Comparative Literature ... held a remote commencement via zoom; The 90 minute ceremony featured 14 faculty, 16 undergraduates, and 2 graduates and their families participated for a total of approximately 60, and by all measures, it was a great success. Normally, the department joins with other language departments for a "mega-ceremony" in Zellerbach, but with pandemic and social distancing, we were not able to hold an in-person event; as a result, we held instead a smaller, more personal ceremony, which allows for more commentary by faculty and the opportunity for...

New 'History of Women in the Comparative Literature Department' page now live!

November 24, 2024

We are pleased to share our new ... web page, celebrating our part of one hundred and fifty years of women at the University of California. We hope you enjoy these remembrances from our faculty, staff, and alumni! This page can also be accessed in the top left of our site, by the link labeled '150W.'

Big Give March 11th!

November 24, 2024

The last Big Give took place ... on March 12, 2020 - just moments before our world changed. Since then your UC Berkeley community has kept the blue and gold spirit strong: repurposing labs for COVID research and PPE fabrication; making sure students have what they need to thrive in challenging times; innovating ways to keep connections strong for classes, clubs, and cohorts; and shining light on expert perspectives that illuminate pathways through some of the most complicated times in modern history.

Big Give, our annual fundraising blitz, has been online since 2014. And on March 11...

El Grupo

November 24, 2024

EL GRUPO PRESENTS /EL ... GRUPO PRESENTA

(in conjunction with UC Berkeley's Department of Comparative Literature, and the UCB Department of Spanish & Portuguese)

--A CONVERSATION/CHARLA:

"WORKS IN PROGRESS / ESTUDIOS EN CURSO"

Monday, February 22, 5 pm (Pacific Coast Time)

A Zoomcast event, featuring three grupistas speaking briefly and informally about their current research, and then taking questions from--and engaging in discussion with--event attendees.

Our Three Presenters:

Karina Palau is...

Bella Chavez wins Pickering Award

November 24, 2024

Bella Chavez is a recent graduate ... from the University of California, Berkeley where she double majored in Comparative Literature and Latin American Languages & Cultures. She is a recipient of the competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. During her undergraduate career, she studied abroad in Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. She also volunteered in Medellin, Colombia where she completed her education minor practicum. She is currently interning with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence through a Virtual Student Federal Service program. In December of...

The Borderlands of Culture

November 24, 2024

"The Borderlands of Culture in Election-Urgency: Charla/Conversation with Ramón Saldívar (Stanford University)"--Responses from Ivonne del Valle (UC Berkeley) and Alejandra Decker (UC Berkeley), followed by discussion with the audience

Monday, October 26, 5-7 pm Webinar (webcast hosted by the University of California, Berkeley)

Co-Sponsors: Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Department of Comparative Literature