Unpacking the origins of our holidays with Henry Ansgar Kelly
In a UCLA College podcast, the English professor explores folklore, festivity and the afterlife.
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Adapting Jane Austen
On what would have been the author’s 250th birthday, an appreciation of the many adaptations of her work.
How Brian Kim Stefans incorporates AI into his creative process
For one recent poem, the English professor fed an original stanza into ChatGPT and instructed the platform to write 100 more in a similar style.
In memoriam: Efrain Kristal, 66, comparative literature scholar whose brilliance, humility wowed peers
“He turned all of his interests in culture into something beautiful and artful,” said Teo Ruiz, a UCLA colleague and longtime friend.
Indigenous people are partners in this cultural conservation research
A paper by Thiago Puglieri and colleagues calls on conservation scholars to rethink the materials they study and to credit Indigenous creators as collaborators, not subjects.
O povo indígena é parceiro nesta pesquisa de conservação cultural
O estudo liderado por Thiago Puglieri, da UCLA, incorpora contribuições significativas da comunidade Tikuna da região amazônica.
Susan Slyomovics receives American Anthropological Association book award
A reviewer called it a “masterful piece of work — theoretically adept, ethnographically attuned, moving and engagingly written.”
4 Humanities faculty among winners of inaugural UCLA global grants
Stephanie Bosch Santana, Jennifer Jung-Kim, Barbara Fuchs and Victoria Mateu received awards to support their teaching and research.
He wrote the book on Michael Jordan’s cultural influence
Adam Bradley, a UCLA professor of English and African American studies, provided the text for a new volume celebrating the basketball great’s enduring influence.
Sound check: Stella Nair studies an Inca building designed for acoustics
The art history professor spent part of her summer in Huaytará, Peru, studying a structure built to amplify sound and music.