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Rhetoric Student Orestes Sophocleous Interviewed for Arts & Humanities Website

In Memory of Linda Williams, December 18, 1946 - March 12, 2025

Robin Manley Published in Theory, Culture & Society

Phi Beta Kappa Selects Shannon Jackson for 2025-2026 Visiting Scholar Program

February 13, 2025

Marianne Constable named inaugural Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellow

December 16, 2024

New Book Edited by William Morgan: Interplay

November 19, 2024

Berkeley Book Chat: Mario Telò in Conversation with Judith Butler

November 19, 2024

Samera Esmeir and Daniel Boyarin Present at University of Toronto

November 19, 2024

Aliosha Bielenberg Awarded MGSA's Papacosma Graduate Student Essay Prize

September 13, 2024

Ramona Naddaff's Art of Writing talk with Sonali Deranayigala

September 6, 2024

New Book by p. feijó

September 3, 2024

Faith Enemark Receives Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award

August 27, 2024

[DATE CHANGED]: Rhetoric Graduate Admissions Q&A Session

Marianne Constable Awarded LSA Wheeler Prize

Jim Porter to Deliver Keynote at Auerbach Conference

Winnie Wong Presents Katz Distinguished Lecture at UW

Mario Telò's Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis a PROSE Finalist

Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2023-2024

Welcoming the 2024 Rhetoric Ph.D. Cohort

Mario Telò Presents at Centre Pompidou Seminar

Online Event: Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Nasser Zakariya Earns Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award

Cosmopoetics: Three Lectures on the Ecologies of Nature, Poetry, and Ethics

New Book by Mario Telò - Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

New Book by David Bates

New Book Edited By Jim Porter

New Book Edited by Mario Telò

Eisner Prize in Prose Awarded to Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon

February 23, 2024

2024 Commencement! Save the Date!

February 20, 2024

The Artificiality of Natural Intelligence with David Bates

February 5, 2024

New Books by Trinh Minh-ha, "Form and Forces" Noted in Art in America

November 6, 2023

Yael Hacohen wins Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award

October 6, 2023

William Morgan published in e-flux Journal

September 25, 2023

Aliosha Pittaka Bielenberg Featured on Graduate Division Site

August 29, 2023

Kyra Sutton Wins Teaching Effectiveness Award

Julia Jarcho Delivers Keynote for 2023 Rhetoric and Film & Media Commencement

lyndsey karr Selected for the Mentored Research Award

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Awards

Fumi Okiji wins the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award

Rhetoric PhD Candidate Linda Kinstler wins 2023 Whiting Award for Nonfiction

Éric Morales-Franceschini wins 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

Announcing Embodying Peripheries co-edited by Kuan Hwa

February 16, 2023

Carol Clover Legacy Project

November 22, 2022

Linda Kinstler reports on Ukraine’s Reconstruction for The NYT Magazine

November 17, 2022

Linda Kinstler’s new book: “Come to This Court and Cry”

September 1, 2022

Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon selected as 2022-2023 Emerging Critic Fellow!

Congratulations to the Rhetoric Graduate Students on their many accomplishments!

Read an interview with Rhetoric professor, Trinh T. Minh-ha, on Berkeley News

Richard Grijalva named as one of ACLS 2022 Emerging Voices Fellows!

Katie Brown and Kyra Sutton Win 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award!

Trinh T. Minh-ha: What About China?

Linda Kinstler: To understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict, look to colonialism

February 28, 2022

Simon(e) van Saarloos and Matthew Stadler in conversation on January 29

January 13, 2022

Rhetoric PhD Alum, Paul Nadal, Awarded the 1921 Prize for Best Essay in American Literature from the American Literature Society

December 1, 2021

Berkeley Data Science Students Help Uncover How Flaubert Honed “Madame Bovary”

October 26, 2021