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Update: Berkeley Alum’s Play Performed at Kennedy Center

In March 2010, we wrote about the return to Berkeley of the wildly successful play The Domestic Crusaders, by Wajahat Ali. Ali’s play was recently performed at the premiere theater venue of the nation’s capital, the Kennedy Center — and to quite a response. This video from the production shows both the first act and Wajahat’s narration of the play’s Berkeley origin. Additionally, the script of the play will be published by McSweeny’s next month; copies can be ordered here.

Recent Grad Describes Writing Life After Berkeley

In what follows, Margaret Boehme, who graduated from Berkeley in 2005 and now writes for the NPR program The Writer’s Alamanc, reassures her parents about her writing career. Read full post…

Anne-Lise François wins 2010 René Wellek Award

The English Department congratulates Professor Anne-Lise François, whose Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience (Stanford University Press, 2007) was recently named the winner of the 2010 René Wellek Prize. Read full post…

Recent Alumna wins National Poetry Series

This past September, Berkeley alumna Laura Wetherington (Class of ‘04) was notified that her manuscript A Map Predetermined and Chance was one of the five winners of the National Poetry Series’ Open Competition. Read full post…

Alumna Makes a Therapeutic Career out of Literary Study

Licensed marriage and family therapist Ilene Wolf is now the Director of the Bay Area’s Drama Therapy Institute, but she got her start as an undergraduate English major at Berkeley.Read full post…

Professor Cecil Giscombe Wins Henderson Award for Poetry

This past spring, at a meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco, Professor Cecil Giscombe was awarded the 2010 Stephen E. Henderson Prize by the African American Literature and Culture Society. Read full post…

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