Poulomi Saha receives the 2023 American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award

March 19, 2024

We are honored to announce that Poulomi Saha, co-director of the Program in Critical Theory and associate professor of English, has received the 2023 American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award. The American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award is intended to recognize individual faculty members ’ exemplary teaching in the American Cultures curriculum at the University of California, Berkeley. Instructors are recognized for their inspiring and sustained commitment to creating a learning space that holds the challenges and opportunities that teaching AC content requires. This spring, Saha will be honored at a public award ceremony held by the American Cultures Center.

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Poulomi Saha with their two dogs. Saha is standing upright indoors and smiling. They are wearing a dark suit and matching dark collarless shirt. They are a scholar of Asian American literature, postcolonial studies, and queer and feminist theory.

Poulomi Saha with their dogs, Sally and Steve.