Shirley Cruz uncovers deeper meaning in vampire literature
The English major says she hopes her project “inspires others to continue exploring queer stories and gender with depth and care.”

As an undergraduate, the applied linguistics major was deeply involved in research on language acquisition and cochlear implants.
The English major says she hopes her project “inspires others to continue exploring queer stories and gender with depth and care.”
In a UCLA College podcast, the English professor explores folklore, festivity and the afterlife.
On what would have been the author's 250th birthday, an appreciation of the many adaptations of her work.
For one recent poem, the English professor fed an original stanza into ChatGPT and instructed the platform to write 100 more in a similar style.
“He turned all of his interests in culture into something beautiful and artful,” said Teo Ruiz, a UCLA colleague and longtime friend.
A paper by Thiago Puglieri and colleagues calls on conservation scholars to rethink the materials they study and to credit Indigenous creators as collaborators, not subjects.
O estudo liderado por Thiago Puglieri, da UCLA, incorpora contribuições significativas da comunidade Tikuna da região amazônica.
A reviewer called it a “masterful piece of work — theoretically adept, ethnographically attuned, moving and engagingly written.”
The ELTS staff member and UCLA alumna is pursuing a master’s in English literature at UC Irvine.
Stephanie Bosch Santana, Jennifer Jung-Kim, Barbara Fuchs and Victoria Mateu received awards to support their teaching and research.
Nat Escobedo, a UCLA senior, is researching how artists in the Inland Empire play an important role as community-builders.
“The project was conceived as a multilingual ‘time capsule,’” said Nina Bjekovic, the department’s director of language programs.
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