Sixiang Wang honored for book that reframes 3 centuries of Korea-China relations
“Boundless Winds of Empire” earned the Hong Yung Lee Book Award from the UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies.
Books
In her first book for young readers, Teddi Chichester aims to inspire compassion for wildlife
“Wildlife Crossings of Hope” examines what happens when highways and other urban infrastructure confine animals to small patches of land.
New book by Stephanie Balkwill explores women in power in 6th-century China
The book casts the life of Empress Dowager Ling amid a story of the reinvention of religious, ethnic and gender norms in a rapidly changing society.
How digital humanities can enhance understanding of Holocaust testimonies
In his new book, Todd Presner argues that computational and data-driven methods can be key in preserving and analyzing survivors’ stories.
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.
Collection edited by Yogita Goyal broadens research on African American literature
The professor of English and of African American studies said the book highlights the shift taking place within Black studies and the need for further research.
Poetry in motion: A forthcoming anthology showcases the genius of UCLA’s Harryette Mullen
Her new anthology, “Regaining Unconsciousness,” to be published in 2025, will surely be one of poetry’s most talked-about books of the year
On the ‘Afterlife of Photography’: Q&A with art historian George Baker
In his new book, the UCLA professor investigates how a generation of women artists is invigorating photography in the age of digitization by returning to earlier, incomplete or unrealized moments.
Exploring the sacred music of nuns in colonial Mexico and Latin America
In his first book, Cesar Favila book takes an imaginative approach to recounting the lives of nuns who sang devotional music in Catholic churches in 17th- and 18th-century Mexico and Latin America. Favila, an assistant professor of musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is a faculty affiliate of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, and the LGBTQ Studies Program in the UCLA Division of Humanities. “Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain,” published in November by Oxford University Press, examines rarely studied printed and manuscript sources…
Q&A: Justin Torres on creating ‘sustained and deep engagement’ with literature
Justin Torres was just 31 years old when his first novel, “We the Animals,” caused a literary sensation. Narrated by a young boy of mixed heritage who is finding his way amid family struggles and a budding queer identity, the novel received the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and became a bestseller as well as an award-winning film. Since its publication more than a decade ago, Torres has experienced the kind of broad, enduring recognition that eludes many authors. The literary landscape has also changed significantly in the last decade; today, literature by and about Latinos continues to gain ground. Torres, a…