Emma Horio | December 19, 2023 William Blake is having a moment in Los Angeles. A highly regarded exhibition at the Getty Center — a Los Angeles Times critic called…
UCLA College | December 7, 2023 When UCLA was founded in 1919, it only offered a two-year undergraduate program, with no option for a bachelor’s degree. In 1923, the UC…
Lucy Berbeo | December 6, 2023 With a gift of $2 million from an anonymous donor, UCLA plans to establish the Robert E. Archer Chair in the Study of Religion,…
Robert Baker | December 1, 2023 In his first book, Cesar Favila book takes an imaginative approach to recounting the lives of nuns who sang devotional music in Catholic churches…
Emma Horio | November 29, 2023 Professor Danny Snelson’s ‘Algo-Lit’ class also explores ethical issues around text generator tools A new UCLA English class is built around the premise…
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…
Lucy Berbeo | November 16, 2023 UCLA has received a commitment of $11 million from the Persian Heritage Foundation to establish the UCLA Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary…
Sean Brenner | November 14, 2023 Around the early 1910s, coal miners began sending birds into mines as a way to detect the presence of carbon monoxide or other toxic…
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…
Lucy Berbeo | October 24, 2023 The UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures received a gift of $345,000 from the Robert Lemelson Foundation to establish the Amazigh Studies…
Jonathan Riggs | October 24, 2023 “A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness,” author Ursula K. Le…
UCLA Humanities | October 23, 2023 The Division of Humanities is proud to introduce its new faculty members for the 2023–24 academic year. These accomplished scholars represent nearly every department…
Jonathan Riggs | October 19, 2023 Turning 50 this year — and looking not a day over diabolical — “The Exorcist” is one of the most influential, critically acclaimed and…
UCLA College | October 17, 2023 “Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit” at the Grammy Museum, which runs through Sept. 4, 2024, celebrates the genre’s 50th anniversary. It is co-curated by…
Lucy Berbeo | October 2, 2023 UCLA professor discusses his new novel, ‘Blackouts,’ and the writers inspiring him today Justin Torres was just 31 years old when his first novel, “We…
Lucy Berbeo | August 7, 2023 UCLA English professor explains how ‘the beauty, diversity and fragility of life’ inspired her latest work Harryette Mullen has a singular way of connecting…
Jonathan Riggs | July 24, 2023 Professors Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a project called Race in the Global Past…
Anushka Chakrabarti | July 1, 2023 Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of humanities at the UCLA College, served as the commencement speaker for the 2023 humanities commencement ceremony. Stern said she…
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…