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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…

Originally posted to the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures website on 09/04/18. On August 30, 2018 Lecturer Georgiana Galateanu was honored by the President of Romania, Mr….

by Rigoberto González / Aug.17.2018 / 5:10 AM ET NBC News Justin Torres took the literary world by storm in 2011 with the publication of his novel We the Animals, which became a national bestseller…

Jessica Wolf | August 15, 2018 When we think of classical theater most of us are likely to call up images and ubiquitous lines from Shakespeare. But he was not the only…

July 17, 2018/in COLLEGE MAGAZINE RESEARCH /by Rayna Jackson At age 15, Ann Signett was surrounded by war. Every morning she would go out on her balcony and watch B-17 bombers as they flew…

Diego Loukota Sanclemente, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC), has been awarded the prestigious Robert N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies…

UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) and TV station KCET-Link, has launched a yearlong collaboration in an effort to report environmental issues through short documentaries and essays. Co-founder of LENS, Professor Ursula K Heise has written and produced a short documentary with the help of faculty and…

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) is extremely proud this year to be able to boast of the accomplishments of so many of our students.  Despite our…

Originally published in the Daily Bruin BY MEGAN DALEY on April 17, 2018 12:27 am.  Olga Kagan dedicated the last two decades of her life to a community that is often overlooked…

By Kevin G. McDonald on March 20, 2018 Dr. Lisa Felipe Dr. Lisa Felipe is the Director of the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Program (EPIC) at UCLA. EPIC, made possible by a…

Professor Kara Cooney (left) and Marissa Stevens (right) Marissa Stevens, Egyptology Graduate Student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, won UCLA’s 2018 Grad Slam Competition last night, Wednesday, March…

Cailey Hall | February 21, 2018 Hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, extinctions: with near-constant coverage of disaster scenarios, communities around the country can be forgiven for experiencing environmental news fatigue. How can we…

Jessica Wolf | February 15, 2018 One of the biggest champions of blockchain technology on the UCLA campus is a humanities professor — specifically David MacFadyen, professor of musicology who is currently…

Jessica Wolf | February 16, 2018 Modern Judeo-Christian rhetoric and imagery purports that Satan is an evil opponent to all that is good and godly — a literal opponent of God. But…

Photo: NBC Universal UCLA Professor, Pamela Hieronymi, has inspired, and consulted for NBC’s “The Good Place.” For the full story, please go to the Chronicle of Higher Education:  https://www.chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Philosophers-Who-Give/242462  

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is delighted to congratulate Professor David Schaberg, Dean of the Humanities at UCLA, on being awarded the 2018 Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize…

John Duncan is a UCLA scholar of Korean history and teaches in the departments of Asian languages and cultures and history. Duncan is the former head of the Center for Korean…