In her first book, Berkeley English professor Colleen Lye examined the historical roots of Asian American stereotypes. Now, in her latest project, Lye asks what it really means to call literature "Asian American."
In his latest book, Berkeley literary critic Robert Alter looks beyond ideology to explore how authors from Flaubert to Kafka developed radical new styles in the face of explosive urban expansion.
In his latest performance, Sudipto Chatterjee portrays Lalon Phokir, a 19th-century musical mystic whose unique brand of spiritual synthesis speaks bracingly to the collision of world politics and religion today.
They are a people defined by conflict. But Beshara Doumani has a different story to tell. His sweeping social history of the Palestinians reveals lives that have been hidden from view -- until now.
Today Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Brahms still form the foundation of the UC Berkeley music curriculum. But after 100 years, the academic study of music in America has changed dramatically, opening doors to new kinds of music and new methods of study. Much of that change began at UC Berkeley.
For someone who devotes his life's work to thinking about thinking, Alva Noë can sometimes seem a little down on the brain. Perception, argues the UC Berkeley associate professor of philosophy, doesn't just happen inside the brain. Instead, he says, it's a function of the whole human animal.
Corporate office parks line America's highways like trees along a forest path. Big-box buildings of glass and steel huddle amid spindly shrubs and vast parking lots in ever-expanding suburbs outside nearly every city in the country. These are the places where the nation does business.
Berkeley's first English professor ran with poets and presidents. He also tried to bring down the University.
Berkeley professor and father of a famous family gave birth to a new way of understanding music.
The first Indian play performed at UC Berkeley -- and anywhere in the United States -- took the stage of the Greek Theater in 1907, along with elephants, zebras, and a cast of hundreds.
In 1872, Berkeley pioneered the field of East Asian studies with the establishment of the Agassiz Professorship of Oriental Languages and Literature.
