2013
Literature
- December 18, 2013
UCSC announces lineup for Winter 2014 Living Writers Series
Award-winning author and alumna Reyna Grande will kick off the winter 2014 Living Writers reading series at UCSC, one of a number of notable UCSC graduates who will return to campus to give readings and talk about their success in the writing world.
- November 19, 2013
Nathaniel Deutsch wins book award from Association for Jewish Studies
Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history and co-director of UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies, has received the 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies
- November 06, 2013
Award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye to read at 4th annual Morton Marcus memorial event
UCSC will host the fourth annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading featuring award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye on Nov. 14
- November 05, 2013
Celebration of two new Jewish Studies books Nov. 13
UCSC’s Center for Jewish Studies and University Library will present a celebration of two new books on Jewish Studies--featuring professors Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten, and librarian Lee Jaffe, Nov. 13 at Stevenson College.
- October 03, 2013
Helene Moglen to give Emeriti Lecture: ‘From Frankenstein to Facebook’
Are stories about our ambivalent love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars, personal profiles and robots? Find out Oct. 29 at UCSC’s Emeriti Faculty Lecture.
- September 19, 2013
UCSC’s Carolyn Dunn to direct play at National Congress of American Indians conference
Carolyn Dunn--director of UCSC’s American Indian Resource Center, managing director of the campus’s student resource centers, and literature lecturer—will direct a new play by acclaimed playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle at the National Congress of American Indians annual conference.
- September 16, 2013
Humanities to host exhibit celebrating centennial of Albert Camus
Beginning on October 15, UCSC will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus. The new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology.
- August 22, 2013
UCSC ranked among best colleges for computer science and humanities majors
UCSC is highly ranked among the nation's top computer science and humanities programs for "lifetime return on investment."
- July 29, 2013
Descendants of Charles Dickens to appear at UCSC’s annual celebration
Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson, and Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, will speak and perform as part of the annual Dickens Universe program, running August 4-10 on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
- July 15, 2013
UC Santa Cruz launches first online course with Coursera
UC Santa Cruz announced today the launch of its first free online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled The Holocaust, the course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film.
- June 27, 2013
UC Santa Cruz to offer new Spanish Studies B.A. degree
Beginning this fall, students at UC Santa Cruz can now declare a major in Spanish Studies, leading to a new bachelor of arts degree.
- April 19, 2013
UCSC alumna wins prestigious 2013 Guggenheim
UCSC 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts in poetry. She returns to campus for Alumni Weekend events, including a free public reading on April 25.
- April 02, 2013
UCSC Spring Living Writers series kicks off April 4
Acclaimed up-and-coming writer Tupelo Hassman--author of the novel 'Girlchild'--will kick off the spring installment of UCSC’s Living Writers reading series, Thursday, April 4, at the Humanities Lecture Hall.
- March 28, 2013
Gary Young wins 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA) for best original poem on a humanitarian theme.
- March 18, 2013
Alumna Belle Yang contributes cover art to second issue of Catamaran
“Kite”--a 1997 painting by UC Santa Cruz alumna Belle Yang—is the featured art on the cover of the just released Spring 2013 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.
- February 05, 2013
Karen Yamashita to read and lead talk about Asian American & Ethnic Studies
Award-winning author and UCSC literature professor Karen Yamashita will give a reading of excerpts from her work, followed by an informal conversation with guest professors Alondra Nelson (Columbia University) and Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth College).
