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Justin Park dropped out of high school, but he never lost his love of literature and learning. After 20 years as a bartender, bike messenger and military man, Park returned to school at UC Berkeley, graduated — and now has been selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a top world honor.
Tag: English
Emeritus English professor Paul Alpers dies at age 80
May 22, 2013:
Paul Alpers, a UC Berkeley professor of English for 38 years, died May 19 at his home in Northampton, Mass. Alpers was the husband of Smith College President Carol Christ, who served as Berkeley’s executive vice chancellor and provost from 1994 to 2000.
Student graduation speaker on ‘vaulting off a page and into the world’
May 22, 2013:
At the English department’s 2013 commencement, student speaker Prachi Naik ’13 pays respects “to the connective tissue of our world, that glimmering lattice of convergences [that is] made most brilliant, most visible through literature.”
Ten Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013:
Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.
Berkeley English grad named Gates Scholar
March 20, 2013:
After a stint in the Navy, Justin Park encountered an Old English poem that piqued a fascination with medieval literature. Park pursued that interest while earning his B.A. at Berkeley and now has been named a Gates Scholar. He plans to study Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic lit at Cambridge.
Anne-Lise François wins René Wellek Prize for comparative literature
February 8, 2011:
English professor Anne-Lise François’s book “Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience” was recently named the winner of the 2010 René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.
Muscatine memorial on Feb. 13
January 3, 2011:
A memorial service for the late Charles Muscatine, a University of California, Berkeley, emeritus professor of English, is set for 11 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 13, in the Pauley Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union.
