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Comparative Literature student ... Dylan Cox has won the Eisner Prize for Poetry.

Judge's remarks - "Merry Wishes from the End"

"These careful syllabics and indentation schemes present poetry’s laws and regulations against the forms of legislation the poems critique, specifically those that control the movement and status of immigrant or stateless persons. In opposing formal laws to bad political realities, these poems do not model an escapist flight from those unjust facts, but a quiet yet unrelenting statement that there are other ways to organize speech and person than...

Robert Alter, Berkeley Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, chooses his words carefully—in conversation and in writing. Wednesday’s panel at the Magnes Center in Berkeley celebrated Alter’s latest feat—north of 3,500-pages and decades in the making—a decidedly literary translation of the Hebrew Bible into English. Dean and Comparative Literature professor Anthony Cascardi introduces the august panel consisting of English Professor and poet Robert Hass, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Hebrew scholar Ronald Hendel, and Professor of History and Religion Jonathan Sheehan....

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. He previously taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Miami and has worked on a number of projects related to Native American language documentation and revitalization. In addition to his help organizing the Sawyer Seminar panels and working group, he will be presenting his work on September 13 as part of the seminar’s first panel, which will be dedicated to the topic of Translation / Transduction...

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.

Ken Weisinger was a beloved...