UC REGENTS - Key Persons
Angela Hume is a feminist historian, literary 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 creative and expository 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, twenty-first century poetry, and more.
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.
Brice Particelli earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a 2022 Creative Writing Fellow(link is external) with the National Endowment for the Arts. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a Steinbeck Fellow in Nonfiction at San José State, an Artist Fellow in Nonfiction at NYSCA/NYFA, and taught writing, literature, and pedagogy at Colorado State, Pace, and Columbia University. His writing has been published in Harper's, Guernica, Salmagundi, The Smart Set, and Fourth River, among others, and he is the guest editor of the anthologies America Street [Revised Edition] (link is external)(Persea Books, 2019) and In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories(link is external) (Persea Books, 2022). He is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book focused on (mis)education movements in the United States. His work can be found at briceparticelli.com(link is external).
Bridgette Dutta Portman is a playwright and novelist. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and overseas. She is past president of the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco and is currently a board member of the Pear Theatre, a teaching artist with Dragon Theatre, and a member of the Pear Writers' Guild and the Dramatists' Guild. She has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the Theatre Bay Area TITAN award, the PlayPenn Conference, the Kentucky Women's Theatre Conference Prize for Women Writers, the New Dramatists playwrights' residency, and more. She holds a PhD in political science (UC Irvine, 2011) and an MFA in creative writing (Spalding University, 2018). She is currently at work on the third novel of a young adult fantasy series, The Coseema Saga.
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Daniel joined UC Berkeley's College Writing Programs in 2021. Prior to joining Berkeley, he served as an English Instructor in Taiwan and Japan, honing his expertise in language instruction and cross-cultural communication. He now focuses in program administration, providing valuable support to faculty members, and ensuring efficient financial management. He is passionate about exploring student success pathways and driving business process improvement initiatives to enhance the overall educational experience.
Daniel holds a degree from the University...
Eric Longfellow is a fiction writer with a Ph.D. in English/creative writing. Before joining the faculty at Berkeley, he taught writing, comparative literature, and creative writing at San Francisco State University and Illinois State University. His research and pedagogical interests include psychoanalytic theory, feminist studies, queer theory, and Marxist theory.
Job Titles:
- Student Spring 2018, Received an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research for the Project ( "Digital Blackface
Erinn Wong, CW R4B student Spring 2018, received an honorable mention in the 2019 Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research for the project ("Digital Blackface: How 21st Century Internet Language Reinforces Racism"), awarded 4:00pm-6:00pm, Morrison Library, May 8, 2019.
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- Writer, Teacher ( Link Is External )
Kaya Oakes (she/her) has been a lecturer in College Writing since 1999 and teaches R1A, R4A, R4B, and a variety of creative nonfiction courses. She is the author of five books, most recently including The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life's In Betweens To Remake the World (Broadleaf Books: 2021, one of Sojourners' 2021 Books to Inspire Faith and Justice), The Nones Are Alright (Orbis Books: 2015, Religion News Association best books finalist), Radical Reinvention (Counterpoint Press: 2012), and Slanted and Enchanted (Henry Holt: 2009, San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book). Her sixth book, Not So Sorry: On the Limits of Forgiveness, is forthcoming in 2024. Her essays and journalism have appeared in The New Republic, Slate, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy,Sojourners, On Being, and many other publications. She is also a contributing editor at Killing the Buddha, a contributing writer at America magazine, and she writes a column on forgiveness for The Revealer, a publication of NYU's Center for Religion and Media. In 2016, she was among a group of international writers who traveled to the Vatican to study reporting on religion in politically tumultous times. Kaya was selected as Religion News Service's 2021 recipient for best commentary writing.
At Berkeley, she was the recipient of an innovation grant and a faculty fellowship from the Mellon Faculty Institute for Undergraduate Research, and twice received a Lecturer Teaching Fellowship. She has designed and co-designed several courses including College Writing 131: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction, CW 131N: Cultural Critique, and CW 130: Introduction to Creative Writing. Kaya teaches composition and research courses on themes such as music and social movements, gender, social inequality, wealth and poverty, and much more. Her teaching pedagogy focuses on helping students discover their agency and voice as well as igniting student interest in social issues as they apply to writing across the disciplines. She holds an MFA in creative writing and has done postgraduate work in writing, education, and psychology. Her books are widely taught in writing and religion courses, and she travels frequently to colleges and conferences to speak and guest teach, but mostly enjoys spending time in her hometown of Oakland, California, where she still lives.
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 theory. She is the author of Improving Writing in the Agricultural Sciences, as well as Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, and various articles on literature and composition in journals such as A|B: Autobiography Studies and American Literary Realism. She has also published fiction in various journals, such as Foglifter, FRIGG, Meeting House, and Prick of the Spindle
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Maggie Sokolik has a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from UCLA. She has taught writing and technical communication on the Berkeley campus since 1992. She has taught Reading & Composition courses, advanced composition, American Cultures courses, and a full range of courses for multilingual student writers. She is the author of more than thirty ESL and composition textbooks, including Sound Ideas, co-authored with former KQED Forum Host, Michael Krasny. She has also written for and been featured in several educational video projects in Japan. She travels frequently to speak about grammar, writing, and instructor education, most recently in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Turkey, New Zealand, Nepal, and Australia.
She teaches several MOOCs through edx.org(link is external).
Maggie Sokolik has a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from UCLA. She has taught writing and technical communication on the Berkeley campus since 1992. She has taught Reading & Composition courses, advanced composition, American Cultures courses, and a full range of courses for multilingual...Read more about Maggie Sokolik
Margaret Salifu holds a Ph.D. in English from The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to joining the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley, she taught composition courses and African American literature at The University of Tulsa. She also taught composition courses at Shenandoah University. Her areas of interest include literatures of Africa and the African diaspora. Her essay, "Having My Kenkey and Eating It Too: Being Black and Bicultural," is a book chapter in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism (2019). Another essay, "Cutting and Contriving: Ulene Payne in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King," is a book chapter in Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st- Century British and American Literature and Media (2022).
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Exploring Options in Academic Writing: Effective Vocabulary and Grammar Use(link is external) (Frodesen & Wald, 2016)
Teaching U.S.-educated Multilingual Writers: Practices from and for the Classroom(link is external) (Roberge, Losey, & Wald, 2015)
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, Miriam holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, among others. Recently the 2021 Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College and Cornell College's 2020 Distinguished Visiting Writer, Miriam has also taught poetry and poetics at the National University of Singapore, and at Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow.
Their limited-edition letterpress artist book The Other World won the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Fellowship and was published by the New York City Center for Book Arts in 2019. Miriam is also author of All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers Press) and Pact-Blood, Fever Grass (Ricochet Editions); their poetry has also appeared in Granta, Poetry, and the Kenyon Review. They lives in Berkeley, where for many years they collaboratively developed site-specific performances for very small audiences.
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- BBC World Service Journalist
Review Board, TESL-EJ, An Electronic Journal on Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language(link is external)