Carol Tecla Christ

At-a-Glance

Currently Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education at University of California, Berkeley.
Served as the 11th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, from 2017 to 2024, the first woman in this role.
Served as the 10th President of Smith College from 2002 to 2013.
Authored "The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry" and "Victorian and Modern Poetics."
Co-edited "The Norton Anthology of English Literature" and edited a Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss."
Received a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1970.

Biography

Carol Tecla Christ is an American academic administrator. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Born in New York City, Christ graduated with high honors in English from Douglass College in 1966. She then earned an M.Phil. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1970.