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MLA awards: Goldstein for First Book Prize, Honorable mention for Spackman

November 24, 2024

UC Berkeley English Professor (and 2011 PhD/Comp Lit alum) Amanda Goldstein has won the MLA Prize for a First Book for Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Comparative Literature/Italian Professor Barbara Spackman has received honorable mention for the Howard Marraro Prize from the...

JUDITH BUTLER AND KARINA PALAU WIN EXCELLENCE IN ADVISING AWARD

November 24, 2024

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.

All are welcome. Please RSVP for this event...

Alum Selby Wynn Schwartz Wins Rome Prize

November 24, 2024

Selby Wynn Schwartz (Ph.D., 2005)... was just awarded the prestigious Rome Prize. We previously celebrated Selby for being longlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel ...