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Gift to UCLA’s Clark Library establishes fellowship to support research on Oscar Wilde

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…

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Professor aims to put the history of Mexicans in L.A. at your fingertips

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…

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Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black: Art as a means of getting outside ourselves

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…

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Emergency Support for Afghan Scholars at Risk

With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and help Scholars at Risk. The central campus administration has committed funding, but to bring several scholars from Afghanistan, we need your help. We would now like to give the campus community at large the…

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English Major Woody Brown Wins the Christopher Zyda Creative Writing Award

Aspiring novelist Woody Brown is going to have quite the author’s bio on a future dust jacket. “I grew up a mighty weird autistic kid who was presumed to be retarded because I couldn’t speak,” he says. “My intelligence was not fully acknowledged until I went to Pasadena City College, where they accepted me and my upward trajectory began.” Communicating…

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English Professor Marissa López Teams up with 826LA on Summer Writers Workshop for Teens

Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies, Marissa López’s digital humanities project, Picturing Mexican America, teamed up with 826LA to create a virtual summer writers workshop for middle- and high-school students. 826LA is a non-profit dedicated to developing the writing skills of students 6 to 18, and provides a variety of services such as tutoring, workshops, help for English-language learners and student publications.…

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Mural pays respect to remains of women found near the U.S.-Mexico border

As you walk along Pacific Avenue in Venice, there’s a tattoo parlor — its side wall covered in graffiti — scraps of trash strewn about. Across the alley, interrupting the classic beach community scene, you encounter a wall installation of 389 pink and purple wooden crosses affixed to a 90-foot panoramic backdrop of cacti, sand and desert brush. Names adorn…

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Spanish Government to honor UCLA professor for promoting language and culture

The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated to promoting Spanish around the world, has chosen Barbara Fuchs, UCLA professor of Spanish and English, to receive its inaugural Ñ Prize, honoring her work disseminating Spanish language and culture through theater and literature. The president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, will join Fuchs on July 22 at UCLA as part of an…

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UCLA SNF Center for Study of Hellenic Culture Director, Sharon Gerstel, awarded Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Greece’s highest honor

News Release (Los Angeles, CA – June 30, 2021) UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture (UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) Director Sharon E. J. Gerstel, for her contributions to the promotion of Hellenic Culture, has been named a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, one of Greece’s highest honors. In April, Dr. Gerstel was bestowed…

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UCLA Library acquires new materials based on student proposals in English capstone course

It’s been more than a year since the coronavirus halted physical access to the UCLA Library. Rather than seeing it as a hurdle, Matthew Fisher, associate professor of English, and Devin Fitzgerald, curator of rare books and the history of printing, devised a series of remote-learning alternatives for students to research, think and write about books and book collections in…

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Spanish and Portuguese department awards inaugural Dolores Huerta Community Service Award

Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for…

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Russian Flagship senior wins Boren Award, State Department internship

Joseph Matveyenko (UCLA 2021) will graduate from UCLA later this week with a double major in Russian studies and political science. Not only did he complete two B.A.s at UCLA, he wrote two research theses — one for each program — and presented them during undergraduate research week. “I had only one and a half quarters on campus at UCLA…

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Gift to UCLA’s Clark Library establishes fellowship to support research on Oscar Wilde

Professor aims to put the history of Mexicans in L.A. at your fingertips

Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black: Art as a means of getting outside ourselves

Emergency Support for Afghan Scholars at Risk

English Major Woody Brown Wins the Christopher Zyda Creative Writing Award

English Professor Marissa López Teams up with 826LA on Summer Writers Workshop for Teens

Mural pays respect to remains of women found near the U.S.-Mexico border

Spanish Government to honor UCLA professor for promoting language and culture

UCLA SNF Center for Study of Hellenic Culture Director, Sharon Gerstel, awarded Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Greece’s highest honor

UCLA Library acquires new materials based on student proposals in English capstone course

Spanish and Portuguese department awards inaugural Dolores Huerta Community Service Award

Russian Flagship senior wins Boren Award, State Department internship

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