UCLA Newsroom | April 25, 2024 Philosophy professor Paul Taylor is among five UCLA faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024. The AAAS, one…
Sean Brenner | April 17, 2024 Justin Torres, a UCLA associate professor of English, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2024. The prestigious fellowships, presented by the John Solomon…
Sean Brenner | February 8, 2024 Uri McMillan, a UCLA professor of English and African American studies, has received a $50,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation to support work…
Joe Mandrake | January 18, 2024 Tucked away in the San Gabriel Valley, South El Monte is not a place often featured in literary fiction. But it’s where Carribean Fragoza’s…
Kayla McCormack | December 13, 2023 Arushi Avachat, who plans to graduate in June with degrees in English and political science and a South Asian studies minor, is the latest UCLA…
Lucy Berbeo | December 13, 2023 Sydney Do credits an entire community with paving her path to UCLA. After high school, the Maryland native moved to California to live with…
Vania Sciolini | November 27, 2023 Four Humanities graduate students are among the 12 UCLA scholars overall who have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships for 2023. UCLA received…
Sean Brenner | November 17, 2023 UCLA professor Bryant Kirkland’s first book, “Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature,” has been recognized as one of the books of the year by the…
Sean Brenner | November 16, 2023 Justin Torres, a UCLA professor of English, has won the National Book Award for Fiction. The award was presented Wednesday evening in a New…
Sean Brenner | November 9, 2023 UCLA professor receives prestigious French literary award for ‘Proust and Me: A Family Romance’ Laure Murat, a UCLA distinguished professor of French and Francophone…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 King-Kok Cheung, professor emeritus of English and Asian American studies at UCLA, received the Association for Asian American Studies lifetime achievement award late April…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 Sarah Beckmann, an assistant professor of Roman archaeology in the classics department and a faculty member at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has been…
Jonathan Riggs | May 9, 2023 This 2023 Guggenheim Fellow plumbs the depths of the ancient epic Few forms can rival poetry for its power — through the enduring…
Anushka Chakrabarti | April 21, 2023 The UCLA Chancellor’s Council on the Arts will honor two students – a graduate and an undergraduate student – as 2023 class artists. Winners…
Jonathan Riggs | April 20, 2023 In 1781, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were among the first members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s…
Sean Brenner | April 7, 2023 Five UCLA professors — including three from the UCLA Division of Humanities — are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for 2023. Presented annually since 1925…
Jonathan Riggs | January 23, 2023 Last November, Dominic Thomas, Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, won…
Anushka Chakrabarti | October 29, 2022 Elizabeth DeLoughrey, a UCLA professor of English who also holds an appointment in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, received a 2021…
UCLA Humanities | May 11, 2022 Dominic Thomas, Madeleine Letessier Professor of French in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, has been named an Officer in the Order…
UCLA Humanities | May 9, 2022 Professor Maite Zubiaurre has been selected to join the Faculty Mentoring Honor Society. The society recognizes UCLA faculty who have given much time and effort…