Courtesy of Gloria Ko By Anushka Chakrabarti Humanities students often face structural gaps when it comes to preparing for careers after graduation. A new class, Careers in Humanities (COMPLIT 191P/ENG…
Courtesy of the course flyer By Anushka Chakrabarti To increase inclusivity within the field of Egyptology, the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UCLA is collaborating with Howard University…
Courtesy of Yogita Goyal By Anushka Chakrabarti Yogita Goyal, professor of English and African American studies, has won a slew of awards for her book Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives…
The flyer for the workshop held in the fall (Courtesy of Jenny Sharpe) By Anushka Chakrabarti We sat down with Jenny Sharpe, Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature,…
Cover of the Arabic translation of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (author Jessica Marglin) Credit: Khalid Ben-Srhir. Margaret MacDonald | February 2, 2022 The UCLA Alan D. Leve…
Courtesy of Águilas Press Kit BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI We sat down with Maite Zubiaurre, a professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) and the Department of…
Zrinka Stahuljak in front of a 15th-century relief of the winged lion of Venice. Each quarter, she guides students through explorations of paintings, sculptures and architecture, encouraging them to find…
Courtesy of Kim Stanley Robinson By Anushka Chakrabarti For the third installment of the Possible Worlds lecture series, Kim Stanley Robinson —recognized as one of the greatest living science fiction…
Courtesy of The Royal Household of Spain (en español: Casa Real) By Anushka Chakrabarti Barbara Fuchs, is the first recipient of the Ñ Prize, an award created to honor individuals…
Professor Marissa López examines Robert Becker’s “Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants if 1822-1846 from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco” in the…
Max Gordy | September 14, 2021 When a lot of people look at maps they see objective facts: the black lines depicting borders, a blue line tracing the path of a…
Mary Daily | Photos by Claudia Lucia | September 14, 2021 During a trip to Mexico when she was 15, Charlene Villaseñor Black wandered into the Church of Santa Prisca y…
With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and help Scholars at Risk….
By Jonathan Riggs | UCLA College Aspiring novelist Woody Brown is going to have quite the author’s bio on a future dust jacket. “I grew up a mighty weird autistic…
Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies, Marissa López’s digital humanities project, Picturing Mexican America, teamed up with 826LA to create a virtual summer writers workshop for middle- and high-school students. 826LA is…
Photo by Filomena Cruz Madeline Adamo | July 28, 2021 | UCLA Newsroom As you walk along Pacific Avenue in Venice there’s a tattoo parlor — its side wall covered in…
The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated to promoting Spanish around the world, has chosen Barbara Fuchs, UCLA professor of Spanish and English, to receive its inaugural Ñ Prize,…
Left to right: Ambassador of Greece to the United States Alexandra Papadopoulou and UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Director Sharon E. J. Gerstel. (Photo: Courtesy of UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) News…
Photo Credit: Ben Alkaly/UCLA Photo Caption: Devin Fitzgerald, shown here in 2018 working with students, helped create remote-learning alternatives during the pandemic for students to research, think and write about…
Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United…