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New course helps students make educated decisions when entering workforce after graduation

Humanities students often face structural gaps when it comes to preparing for careers after graduation. A new class, Careers in Humanities (COMPLIT 191P/ENG M191P) aims to change that, offering students career advice; opportunities to build their personal portfolio, CV or resume; and help with general interviewing skills. It is a collaborative effort between the Department of Comparative Literature and the…

The course flyer advertising "Pathways to a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Studies"
Faculty/Department, Graduate Students, News

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures works with Howard University to offer pipeline to Ph.D. for Black students in Egyptology

To increase inclusivity within the field of Egyptology, the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UCLA is collaborating with Howard University to offer a pipeline program for Black students. “Summer Research Internship and Pathway to PhD’s in Ancient Egyptian, North African, and Western Asian Studies” is an eight-week course that will start this summer. In it, four to five…

Yogita Goyal poses with her book against a bookshelf.
Faculty/Department, News

UCLA professor Yogita Goyal has won numerous awards for her book ‘Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery’

Yogita Goyal, professor of English and African American studies, has won a slew of awards for her book Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, including the 2021 René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association prize, the Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative and honorable mention for Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell…

Flyer for the Structural Racism in Higher Education workshop
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Q&A: Jenny Sharpe on equity, diversity and inclusion in the Humanities Division

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…

Image of the cover of the Arabic translation of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Faculty/Department, Gifts/Grants, News

Gift to UCLA’S Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies bolsters field of Moroccan Jewish studies

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…

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Q&A: Maite Zubiaurre on her documentary Águilas, recently shortlisted for the Academy Awards

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…

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 deeper meaning about the people who created them.
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Reimagining the scope and approach of the UCLA Center for Early Global Studies

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…

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Faculty/Department, News

From fiction to action on climate change: Kim Stanley Robinson delivers Possible Worlds lecture

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…

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Poet Rhiannon McGavin ’20 Awarded Mitchell Scholarship

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 receiving her award, flanked by two other individuals
Awards and Honors, Faculty/Department, News

UCLA professor receives award for promoting Spanish language and culture

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…

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What gets remembered

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…

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CMRS Is Now CMRS-CEGS

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…

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