Glynda Hull, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education, will be the featured writer in the Fall 2025 “Berkeley Writers at Work” series.
Join the event on Thursday, October 23, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in the Morrison Library, 101 Main Library, on the UC Berkeley campus.
Professor Hull has published more than 100 articles, chapters, and books on topics ranging from the teaching of writing; digital technologies and their uses in schools; adult literacy and the changing contexts and requirements for work; and community, school, and university partnerships. This research has been supported by grants from the U.S. government and private foundations. Her books include Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skill; The New Work Order: Education and Literacy in the New Capitalism; and School’s Out! Bridging Out-of-School Literacies with Classroom Practice. Her research focuses on improving K-12 education with a focus on literacy, language, and technology.
A recipient of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor Hull teaches undergraduate, graduate, and teacher education courses on literacy and media. In California, with support from the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies, Hull has created and studied after school programs for K-12 youth that emphasize digital media.
The Berkeley Writers at Work series provides a venue for campus writers to talk about their writing process—from getting ideas, to drafting, to revising. On October 23 Professor Hull will read from her work, be interviewed about her writing process, and answer questions from the audience.
The event is free and open to the public.
About Berkeley Writers at Work
The Berkeley Writers at Work series was begun in 1997 as a forum for campus writers of note to discuss their writing process.
Research and teaching are the two primary goals of a large research university like Berkeley. Research is highlighted in many ways on this campus; to a lesser degree, so is teaching. However, writing itself—the primary way that faculty convey the results of their research—is rarely discussed.
The most common kind of writing forum involves writers of fiction and poetry reading selections and talking about the content of their work. Berkeley Writers at Work differs from these in that we focus (although not exclusively) on writers of nonfiction, and then on the process, rather than the content, to the extent that these can be separated.
Most of the campus community (faculty, staff, and students) spend most of their time writing pieces other than poetry and fiction, and we believe that it is invaluable to make public the discussion of the kind of writing that most people at Berkeley are involved in, one way or another. How does a Pulitzer Prize winner in nonfiction get an idea? How does she start writing about it? How does he organize his work? Does she write in solitude? How does he revise? Edit? Who else reads the work in progress? These are all issues that many writers face, whether they are doing reports for the campus or books for publication.
Beyond developing a sense of community among the people who write on campus, we see this series as also simply highlighting writing on this campus. We have a number of truly gifted, award-winning writers whose work is more hailed elsewhere than here. This series provides a wonderful forum for writers on this campus.
Berkeley Writers at Work is aimed at the general campus community: faculty, staff, and students. College Writing instructors frequently ask their students to attend and assign them reading and writing assignments based on the interviews. Video and audio tapes and transcripts of the interviews are available, as well as selected works by the featured writers.
For more information, contact John Levine by email at jblevine@berkeley.edu
