Eric Falci

Eric Falci is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been faculty since Fall 2006. His research focuses on British and Irish poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries, modernist peripheries, and interdisciplinary approaches to poetics. He has served in administrative roles as Associate Dean in the Graduate Division (2017–2021) and Chair of the English Department (2022–2025).

• PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

His scholarship spans monographs and edited collections, including The Value of Poetry (2020) and The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 (2015), alongside critical essays on topics like syntactic experimentation, collaboration in translation, and the intersection of poetry with environmental and modernist studies.

His editorial roles include Series Editor for Cambridge Elements in Poetry and Poetics and Editor of The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry (forthcoming 2026). Contact: efalci@berkeley.edu, Wheeler Hall, Room 406.