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A Bancroft Library exhibit opening April 4 provides a salon-like setting for conversations about the artistic contributions of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual artists through the years.
Tag: literature
Namwali Serpell wins prize for promising women writers
September 6, 2011:
UC Berkeley’s Namwali Serpell, an assistant professor of English and a novelist, is one of six winners of the 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.
Berkeley alum named new director of Folger Shakespeare Library
April 28, 2011:
Michael Witmore, a scholar of Shakespeare and early modern literature, and a pioneer in the digital analysis of Shakespeare’s texts who earned his Ph.D. in rhetoric at UC Berkeley in 1997, has been named director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
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.
‘Philadelphia Stories’: Exploring literature of race and freedom in early Philadelphia
December 13, 2010:
Antebellum Philadelphia, at the border between North and South, was home to a large and influential “free” African American community, and was viewed as a laboratory in which the possibilities of a future without slavery could be tested. The Townsend Center’s Humanities Lab this month features Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter, professor of English at Berkeley.
Twain autobiography – the way he wanted it – hits stores today
November 15, 2010:
The first volume of the autobiography of Mark Twain lands on bookstore shelves on Monday, Nov. 15, 100 years after his death, courtesy of editors at the Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.
Fighting Nazism with the printed word
March 30, 2010:
Resonating through a new Doe Library exhibit of Dutch clandestine art and literature published in defiance of Nazi suppression is the knowledge that, more than a half-century later, persecution, prison and even execution can still be the price of words printed on paper. On display are some 100 pamphlets, books, and artworks from a Bancroft Library special collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Driving home the exhibit’s message will be a Regents Lecture on April 15 by Kader Abdolah, a Dutch writer forced to flee his native Iran for opposing the ayatollahs.
