Faculty

Kim Freeman

Continuing Lecturer

Kim Freeman has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. She has taught writing for more than twenty years. She teaches Reading & Composition courses and writing in the biological sciences at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining the College Writing Programs’ faculty, she taught at Northeastern University in Boston, where she directed the Writing-in-the-Disciplines Program. In addition to her interest in writing in the disciplines, particularly the sciences and narrativeis about the climate crisis and sustainability, she is also interested in creative writing and writing...

Miriam Bird Greenberg

Miriam Bird Greenberg (they/she) teaches College Writing R1A and 134 (The Craft of Poetry). A poet and occasional essayist with a fieldwork-derived practice, Miriam is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, about the contemporary nomads, hitchhikers, and hobos living on America's margins, and their own experiences living and traveling in those worlds. They're currently at work on a hybrid-genre manuscript about the economic migrants and asylum seekers of Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions.

A high school dropout and former hitchhiker...

Mary Grover

Mary Grover has a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Texas in Austin. She's been a writing instructor for twenty-three years. She teaches Reading & Composition courses at UC Berkeley. Her poems and essays appear in Salon, Calyx, poemmemoirstory, and in God Is Change, an anthology of essays on religion in the works of Octavia E. Butler.

Becky Hsu

Lecturer

Becky Hsu received her Ph.D. and bachelor's degree - both in English - from UC Berkeley. In addition, she spent six years teaching college writing in Shanghai, China, at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiatong University Joint Institute, before returning to UC Berkeley in 2019 to teach in College Writing Programs. Her academic interests are broad and various, but she focuses on contemporary film and ethnic literatures, with a concentration on Asian American literature. She is currently working on a novel, as well as a collection of poems.

Spring 2023 Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:...

Angela Hume

Angela Hume is a feminist historian, critic, and poet. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Mary's College of California and a PhD in English from University of California, Davis. Angela has taught academic and creative writing for a decade and a half. She teaches classes on topics and themes such as environmental and health justice, working-class and multiethnic American literatures, feminist and queer storytelling, and more. Angela is a member organizer with UC-AFT, which represents lecturers and librarians across the University of California, and an advocate with the California...

Nancy Hunt

Nancy Hunt taught at the UC Berkeley Extension’s English Language Program, Laney College, Holy Names University, and in the College Writing Program’s Summer English Language Studies program at UC Berkeley. Her path to Berkeley and English as a Second Language teaching has included high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a year of university in Madrid, Spain, and ten years as an English and music professor at the University of Puebla in Mexico.

David Jamieson

I received my PhD from the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. My research focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in particular on conceptions of disgust and how they developed alongside colonial, scientific, and gendered thinking. Across my research and my teaching, I am interested in how reading teaches us to imagine the world, how writing teaches us to explain it, and how we can use both of these to develop a practice of making connections.

Tehmina Khan

Belinda Kremer

Belinda Kremer holds an MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1996, she has taught pre-composition, composition, advanced writing, disciplinary writing, literature, creative writing-- poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, drama-- writing for the sciences, writing for digital media, pedagogies of writing, and writing-tutor training in Michigan, New York, and California. Belinda also has extensive backgrounds in writing program and writing center administration, and in supporting faculty in teaching writing with technology. Her poetry appears in...

Lindsey Lanfersieck

Lindsey holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Indiana University and has been teaching literature and writing courses at the university level since 2010. Her interests include teaching first-year writing, nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, gender and sexuality studies, social justice, and young adult fiction.

Lindsey is a full-time lecturer and currently teaches Reading & Composition courses in College Writing and in the Global Edge London program. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she taught literature and composition courses at UC Davis, Univerisity of San Francisco,...