We sat down with Jenny Sharpe, Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature, to discuss her role as the Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Division of Humanities. How would you characterize the last few years of your work? Jenny Sharpe: It has to be contextualized by recent events. In 2019, I was working mostly with…
The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies has received a pledge of $100,000 from its Moroccan academic partner, the Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR) to support Arabic translation projects pertaining to Moroccan Jewish studies. Moroccan Jewish studies is an emerging field that focuses on the history of Sephardic Jewish communities in Morocco. Following the final expulsion of Jews…
Courtesy of Águilas Press Kit We sat down with Maite Zubiaurre, a professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, to discuss her short documentary Águilas, recently shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards in the documentary short category. Zubiaurre co-directed, co-produced and co-wrote it with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, an…
Journalists, businesspeople and politicians working in foreign countries often depend on fixers — resourceful, problem-solving guides with a sophisticated grasp of local languages, cultures and customs. Zrinka Stahuljak has long considered herself a fixer, both literally — she was a wartime interpreter in her native Croatia during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia — and metaphorically, in her role…
For the third installment of the Possible Worlds lecture series, Kim Stanley Robinson —recognized as one of the greatest living science fiction writers — joined students, faculty and UCLA community members Nov. 30 to discuss climate change advocacy and the incredibly high stakes facing our planet. “[We] are standing on the edge of creating a mass extinction event that would…
Rhiannon McGavin ’20 was watching the 1984 cult classic Repo Man at the Los Feliz 3 theater when she got the call. “They have such a strict no-phone policy,” she laughs, “so I tore outside the theater as soon as I felt that ring.” The news was worth missing a movie for — McGavin discovered she earned a slot as one of the 12 members of the George…
Barbara Fuchs is the first recipient of the Ñ Prize, an award created to honor individuals who have promoted Spanish language and culture internationally. The Ñ Prize was created by the Instituto Cervantes, a Spanish public institution created in 1991 with the intent to promote the Spanish language through education and use of the language and to encourage the spread…
There has never been one definitive Los Angeles. Spanning hundreds of years and countless cultures, the city represents something different for everyone. It belongs to us all, as young participants in the Summer Writers’ Workshop discovered in July. An annual offering by creative writing nonprofit 826LA, the program featured something new this year: a collaboration between 826LA, UCLA and Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies Marissa López’s Picturing Mexican America project. The weeklong workshop brought middle and high school students together to examine—and imagine—both the future history of…
Dear faculty, staff, and friends, I am pleased to share exciting news regarding UCLA’s world-class hub for scholars working in periods from the 3rd to the 17th century CE across the world. More than a half-century after its founding, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) will now be known as CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS–CEGS). Under the leadership of director Zrinka Stahuljak, CMRS–CEGS exemplifies the breadth of forward-thinking research and scholarship…
UCLA has received a generous gift from William Zachs and Martin Adam to establish the endowed Wilde-Holland Fellowship in the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies & William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The gift qualified for matching funds from the Kaplan-Panzer Humanities Endowment. The fellowship is open to postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and visiting scholars engaged in research using…
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 river, and locations of mountains, cities and lakes. Marissa López, professor in the departments of English and Chicana and Chicano and Central American studies, sees a story, one written from…
During a trip to Mexico when she was 15, Charlene Villaseñor Black wandered into the Church of Santa Prisca y San Sebastián in Taxco. “I was dazzled by the 18th-century interior, with Baroque paintings and gold retablos [devotional works] perfectly preserved,” says the Arizona native, now a professor of art history and Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA. At…
Enter your email address to receive a monthly newsletter from UCLA Humanities covering our latest news and upcoming events.
"*" indicates required fields
