Literature
- November 23, 2010
Time's White House correspondent returns to UC Santa Cruz
Michael Scherer, the White House correspondent for Time magazine and a UC Santa Cruz alumnus (Oakes, creative writing, '98) returned to campus Monday to describe how he went from random typing at UCSC to riding Air Force One with the president.
- November 02, 2010
Latino Literary conference at UCSC, Nov. 5-6
The third biennial conference of the Latino Literary Cultures Project will take place at UC Santa Cruz on Friday and Saturday, November 5-6.
- October 14, 2010
UC Santa Cruz Literature professor nominated for National Book Award
Karen Tei Yamashita, professor of literature and co-director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz, has been nominated for a 2010 National Book Award.
- September 28, 2010
Award-winning UCSC alumna gaining recognition for second novel
In 2007, UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande (creative writing/film & video ’99) received an American Book award for her debut novel, Across a Hundred Mountains.Her sophomore novel, Dancing with Butterflies--a story of four women in a Los Angeles-based folklorico group--has been steadily garnering acclaim.
- September 02, 2010
In Memoriam: George Hitchcock
George Hitchcock, poet, painter, publisher, and UCSC lecturer emeritus in Creative Writing (Literature), died on August 27 at the age of 96.
- June 24, 2010
UC Santa Cruz approves new major in Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies at UCSC had its origins in the mid-1980s after a campus visit by Schindler's List survivor Leopold Page--nearly a decade before Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning film.
- May 11, 2010
UC Santa Cruz's Harry Berger Jr. honored with top UC award for emeriti faculty
The 2010 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring emeriti professors in the University of California system, has been awarded to UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of literature Harry Berger Jr.
- April 21, 2010
UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey receives Guggenheim for poetry
UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry.
- January 27, 2010
UC Santa Cruz lecturer named first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been named the first-ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.
- January 24, 2010
Humanities professor wins 2009 prize for scholarly outreach
Professor of classics and comparative literature Mary-Kay Gamel has been awarded the 2009 Prize for Scholarly Outreach from the American Philological Association (APA)--the national classics association
- January 06, 2010
Award-winning women writers to be featured in UCSC's 2010 Living Writers Series
How do women writers view history differently than men? That's the key question posed by "Another Look: Women Writers Re-Vision History"--the winter installment of UCSC's annual Living Writers Series.
- January 04, 2010
Literature professor's book makes Choice magazine's list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Literature professor Rob Wilson's book "Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics" (Harvard University Press) has been selected as one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009.
