Rhetoric graduate student Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon has been selected as a 2022-2023 Emerging Critic Fellow through the National Book Critics Circle.
The Emerging Critics Fellowship, launched by Elizabeth Taylor in 2017, seeks to identify, nurture, and support the development of the next generation of book critics.
As we take stock of the year just completed, let’s please take a moment to celebrate these recent career achievements by graduate students in Rhetoric:
Megan Alvarado Saggese and Ryan Rhadigan each have an appointment as Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Ft Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.
Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha on the beauty of receiving the world
By Anne Brice, Berkeley News
May 31, 2022
For Trinh T. Minh-ha, learning isn’t about accumulating knowledge.
“This has been something that my students very much appreciate,” said Trinh, a longtime UC Berkeley professor of gender and women’s studies and of rhetoric who retired in 2020. “But also, I have had students who agonized with me over the whole semester because of this.
Rhetoric Lecturer, Richard Grijalva PhD., was proudly named as one of the 40 new Emerging Voices Fellows for 2022 by The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Rhetoric Department graduate students Katie Brown and Kyra Sutton have been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award this year. The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award honors UC Berkeley GSIs each year for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates. Our faculty and undergraduates alike are proud to recognize Katie and Kyra for their exceptional dedication to their students.
Congratulations, Katie and Kyra!
Rhetoric PhD candidate Linda Kinstler was named one of the 22 fellows selected as The Institute for Citizens & Scholars’ 2022 class of Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows.
The Newcombe Fellowship, funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, is the largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values in interesting, original, or significant ways.
UC Berkeley professor and experimental filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha fascinates with her new film reflecting on China’s complex history and offering a journey into the wealth of Chinese traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter.
HUM 196
Mentored Research Lab
3 units, Class #24594
Unlocatable: Seeing Hong Kong and its Arts
Instructor: Prof. Winnie Wong
Thursday, 2-5pm
Wheeler 212
Mentored Research courses are designed to introduce upper-division students to the research culture on campus in a small group format. You will work closely with faculty members and graduate-student mentors in both seminar-style cohorts and more focused groups.
We continue to be a small department with a great reputation—the best graduate students and liveliest undergraduates on campus! We hope you are in a position to help us sustain the excitement of learning here!
The Big Give is just around the corner: Thursday, March 10. #CalBigGive
To understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict, look to colonialism
Ukrainians have been fighting Russian imperialism for hundreds of years
By Linda Kinstler
Save the Date!
The Rhetoric Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 2PM in Zellerbach Hall.
More info to follow.
Axelle Karera
Thursday, March 3
5-7PM
188 Dwinelle Hall
Saturday, January 29, 2022
2-4pm
Thinking Together in the Present: an unrehearsed conversation with Dutch-American philosopher, journalist, and activist Simon(e) van Saarloos and Matthew Stadler, the editor of ArtsEverywhere’s Polity of Literature series. Presented in collaboration with PS Guelph.
Rhetoric 198: Supervised Group Study: 1-unit
Mondays, 3-4pm (Bi-weekly)
7415 Dwinelle
Class #29821
Supervised Group Study: Junior Proseminar
