English students and alums give voice to National Poetry Month
Four UCLA English majors and two alumni were featured in a UCLA College social media campaign.
Alumni
Acclaimed writer Carribean Fragoza to speak at UCLA Humanities commencement
The author, journalist, editor, artist and teacher earned degrees in comparative literature and Chicana and Chicano studies from UCLA in 2003.
Alumna and author La’Tonya Rease Miles shares her ‘first-gen origin story’
A fan of the comic book hero the Flash and a Ph.D. in American literature, she is now a champion for first-generation students.
2024 grad will have close-up view of Germany’s transition to new government
Elsa Coony said it would be “a particularly fascinating and dynamic time to be working close to the center of the government.”
$1.5 million gift from Tom Bye and David Bohne establishes endowed chair in linguistics
The chair will be held by a scholar whose work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical problems of language use in everyday life.
Film series pays homage to ‘Giant Robot,’ influential magazine founded by UCLA alumni
The screenings take place Nov. 1 through Nov. 17 at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum.
Humanities alumnus Boris Dralyuk on finding creative inspiration in his own immigrant story
Dralyuk, now a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Tulsa, earned degrees in comparative literature, Russian language and literature, and Slavic language and literature from UCLA.
Linguistics alumna Ananda Lima on her fiction debut, ‘Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil’
Lima, who earned a master’s degree in 2008, still sometimes laughs when she says the title of her new book aloud.
5 questions for Diana Khoi Nguyen: Poetry at the intersection of the personal and the political
As the English Department’s author in residence, the UCLA alumna is teaching an undergraduate poetry workshop.
In memoriam: Diego Loukota, 38, specialist in Indian and Central Asian Buddhism, ‘once-in-a-generation’ intellect
His colleague Seiji Lippit remembered Loukota for his “pioneering work, drawing connections … that had not been seen before.”