By: Megan Reusche Armando Guerrero, a Lecturer and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently analyzed the accents of actors in famous movies and TV shows for the social media company Pero Like to see if the actors linguistically achieved the Latinx identity in the portrayal of their role. Buzzfeed’s Pero Like is a Facebook and Youtube…
UCLA International Institute, November 7, 2018 — Director of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and Professor of French, Laure Murat has published a new book: “Une révolution sexuelle? Réflexions sur l’aprés-Weinstein [A Sexual Revolution? Reflections on the Weinstein Aftermath]” (Paris: Éditions Stock, 2018). Arguing that #MeToo is the first serious challenge to patriarchy in modern times, Murat dismisses…
UCLA Art History Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently awarded over $1 million in funding as a winner of the 2019 Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) competition. MRPI funding encourages innovative research collaborations across UC campuses that lead to cutting edge discoveries in areas that are important to UC, California, and the global society. Professor Villaseñor Black and her…
In a podcast interview, Rett explains how she uses logic to model what people know when they know the meaning of language.
English professor Anne Mellor reflects on the lasting influence of and impetus behind the author’s iconic monster.
More than 300 students stopped by Bruin Plaza to meet with scholars from 14 departments representing 29 languages spoken at UCLA.
Judges called the book “a funny, efficiently-rendered picaresque tale” that “superbly traces the hero’s psychic collapse.”
Speakers included art history professor Meredith Cohen, second-year Italian and global studies major Max Harrell and alumnus Teo Martinez, CEO of Growing Generations.
How did the philosophically grounded NBC fantasy-comedy get things so right? One reason is that Pamela Hieronymi was a consultant on the show.
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