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Introducing UC Berkeley’s 11th chancellor: Carol Tecla Christ

Carol Christ will begin growing the faculty this year.

UC Regents confirm Carol Christ as Berkeley’s 11th chancellor

“I feel honored and privileged to lead the campus at this challenging time. My experience at Berkeley has been transformational; it formed my ideas of higher education, and it formed my ideals of higher education. I look forward to working with Berkeley’s many communities in the months and years ahead in a way true to UC’s motto, Fiat lux — Let there be light.”

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Carol Tecla Christ

1944
Born in New York City
1964
Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society
1966
Graduated with a B.A. from Douglass College, with high and general honors
1969
Graduated from Yale with a master’s in English
1970
Earned her Ph.D. in English from Yale
1970-2002
Hired as assistant professor of English literature at Berkeley; promoted to associate and then
full professor
1975
Publication of her first book, The Finer Optic: The aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian
Poetry, Yale University Press
1978–79
Awarded and fullfilled National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
1979–83
Vice chair in Charge of Courses, English department, Berkeley
1983
Served on faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English (summer)
1983–84
Served as faculty assistant to the chancellor for the status of women and Title IX
compliance coordinator
1985–88
Chair, English department
1985
Co-edited The Norton Anthology of English Literature, W.W. Norton & Company
1988–89
Dean of Humanities
1989–90
Acting provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science
1990–94
Provost and dean of Letters and Science
1994
Publication of her book, Victorian and Modern Poetics, University of Chicago Press
1994
Edited George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company
1995
Co-edited Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination,
University of California Press
1994–98
8 Vice chancellor and provost
1998
Gayley lecturer, Department of English, Berkeley
1998–2000
Executive vice chancellor and provost
2002–13
President at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
2004
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
2007
Awarded Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale
2013
Elected to American Philosophical Society
2015–16
Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley
2016–17
Interim executive vice chancellor and provost at Berkeley
March 13, 2017
Announced as Berkeley’s 11th chancellor
March 16, 2017
Appointed to be Berkeley’s next chancellor, starting July 1