Anushka Chakrabarti | June 3, 2022 Elaine Kahn, a writer and artist based in Los Angeles, is the writer-in-residence in the UCLA Department of English for spring 2022. A graduate…
Anushka Chakrabarti | June 3, 2022 Angela Davis, the internationally celebrated author, scholar and activist, delivered the second annual Edward W. Said Lecture in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature…
Anushka Chakrabarti | May 13, 2022 We interviewed David Schaberg, dean of the Division of Humanities, about his recent trip to Capitol Hill for Humanities Advocacy Day, where state-based delegations…
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…
Margaret MacDonald | May 10, 2022 Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his wife, Christina, will establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist Studies outside of…
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…
Anushka Chakrabarti | May 5, 2022 The UCLA Department of English will celebrate the launch of its new Digital Media Lab on Friday, May 6 at noon at its location…
Alison Hewitt | May 2, 2022 ‘BeHere / 1942,’ presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA and Tokyo’s Waseda University, runs from May 7 to Oct. 9 Eighty years ago,…
Sean Brenner | April 28, 2022 Alexandra Minna Stern, currently the associate dean for the humanities at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, will be…
Anushka Chakrabarti | April 15, 2022 Harryette Mullen, a professor of English at UCLA, was named the University of California Santa Cruz’s 2022 Humanities Division Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna. UC…
Courtesy of David Kaplan By Anushka Chakrabarti David Kaplan, the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy, was awarded the 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy on 24th of…
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…