
By: Megan Reusche Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies, has been elected second vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Founded…
By: Megan Reusche Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies, has been elected second vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Founded…
UCLA Daily Bruin BY JACQUELINE ALVAREZ Posted: April 7, 2019 at 11:45 pm UCLA will offer a professional writing minor for students to improve their practical writing skills. The minor offers an…
By: Megan Reusche Hosted by the UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department and co-sponsored by many entities on campus, the 7th Annual Latin American, Latinx and Iberian Film Festival: Women’s Voices…
Free speech scholar Rae Langton presented the inaugural UCLA Distinguished Lecture in Philosophy Ellen Evaristo | March 19, 2019 While delivering her vision of how we might “reimagine free speech,” philosopher Rae…
In her latest book, UCLA’s Kara Cooney notes how a ruler’s gender matters far less than whose agendas are served Jessica Wolf | March 08, 2019 Over the course of 3,000 years…
By: Megan Reusche Walls are typically barriers that divide and separate us. For UCLA Germanic Languages and Spanish & Portuguese Professor Maite Zubiaurre, “The Wall that Gives/El muro que da”…
By: Megan Reusche Trashscape on a thrift store platter–Venice, CA–Blue Trash Can Series (Filomena Cruz) When you think of the word “trash,” what types of images do you imagine? A…
The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture announces the establishment of the Peter J. and Caroline B. Caloyeras Endowment for the Arts. The Caloyeras endowment will…
UCLA Iranian Studies and the Pourdavoud Center are proud to announce two new endowments, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary Iranian Studies and the Morvarid Guiv Graduate…
By: Megan Reusche On January 5, 2019, Assistant Professor of Italian Andrea Moudarres received the twenty-first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies…
UCLA Newsroom Jessica Wolf | January 16, 2019 Barbara Fuchs, professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the UCLA College, has been elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association. Founded…
By: Megan Reusche When a country experiences genocide, is talking about what happened the best way to heal from the past? Why is it important to preserve the memory of…
By: Megan Reusche Armando Guerrero, a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently analyzed the accents of actors in famous movies and TV shows for…
UCLA International Institute, November 7, 2018 — Director of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and Professor of French, Laure Murat has published a new book: “Une révolution…
By: Megan Reusche UCLA Art History Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently awarded over $1,000,000 in funding as a winner of the 2019 Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) competition….
By: Megan Reusche Jessica Rett, Associate Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, was recently featured on the podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.” Van Ness is well-known for his role…
English professor Anne Mellor reflects on the lasting influence of and impetus behind the author’s iconic monster Jessica Wolf | October 31, 2018 UCLA Newsroom In 1804, when the use of electricity…
From Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown October 20 Franco-Congolese poet and novelist Alain Mabanckou won the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for fiction for “Black Moses,” a novel…
UCLA Newsroom Jessica Wolf | October 03, 2018 A funny thing happened in the esoteric world of philosophy in late 2016 — professors and students were buzzing on social media about a sitcom….
The Division of Humanities would like to recognize Distinguished Professor Amy Richlin for winning the C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies for her book Slave Theater…