News

Congratulations to Molly Borowitz, who will begin as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Fall 2019!  Molly is currently finishing her doctoral work, which focuses on Early Modern and Colonial literature and culture. Her dissertation takes up the question of Early Modern forms of self-representation and their complex relations to institutional power.

Congratulations to Professor Navarrete, 2019 Berkeley Faculty Service Award recipient! Click here for the full Berkeley News article.

"Still your Department!"

Congratulations to our former graduate student, Allen Young (Berkeley PhD, 2012), who has been awarded the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation prize, for his translation of Losing is What Matters, by Manuel Pérez Subirina. The $10,000 prize is awarded for the best translation of a Spanish-language literary work into English.

After graduating from Berkeley, Allen taught at Northwestern University before pursing an additional degree in urban planning. He is currently working in Shanghai, China, as the managing editor of a bilingual cultural magazine, Neocha.