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December 2, 2019

New Publication by Dr. A. Nanda, "Teaching Octavia Butler in a Course on Colonialism"

 College Writing Programs Lecturer Aparajita Nanda, Ph.D., has just published a chapter, "Teaching Octavia Butler in a Course on Colonialism" in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler, edited
January 28, 2019

3-week Summer Creative Writing Workshops

Beginning July 8, 2019, College Writing will offer a 3-week summer program in creative writing. Get more information here: https://writing.berkeley.edu/courses/summer-creative-writing-workshops. Registration begins in February.
May 17, 2018

College Writing Students Honored with Library Prize for Undergraduate Research and American Cultures Prize

We know well the stellar work that our College Writing students do, which is why we were so pleased and proud to see the work of these four recognized during a May 3 ceremony in the Morrison Reading Room honoring winners of the UC Berkeley Library Undergraduate Research Prize and American Cultures Prize (
May 8, 2018

American Cultures Prizes

The 2018 American Cultures Teaching Award was awarded to College Writing Programs Lecturer Patricia Steenland for her 50AC/150AC course, "Researching Water in the West."
April 19, 2018

BBC Interviews College Writing Lecturer and Students

On Friday, April 6, BBC Broadcaster Robin Lustig and Producer Mohini Patel interviewed College Writing Programs lecturer Carmen Acevedo Butcher and several first-year students from her CW R4B course, “The Meme and the Human: Digital Literacies,” as part of fieldwork for the upcoming BBC World Service “Future of English” four-part radio series.

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