Literature
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New book dedicated to work of international literary scholar/founding UCSC faculty member
A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Art of Interpretation (Fordham University Press, 2009) celebrates more than four decades of groundbreaking work by UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor of literature and art history Harry Berger, Jr.
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Alum Michael Scherer covers the White House for Time magazine
UCSC grad Michael Scherer is covering the White House for Time magazine.
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Literary Studies book series co-founded at UCSC to benefit from $1.16 million Mellon Foundation grant
A UC Press book series in literary studies–founded by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Richard Terdiman in collaboration with his colleague Susan Gillman and faculty from UC Berkeley and Irvine-will share a $1.16 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
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UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition
When the directors of San Francisco’s Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google search on the topic. What they found was UC Santa Cruz
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UCSC receives $150,000 grant for Jewish Studies program
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the David B. Gold Foundation to support a new project in the campus’s Jewish Studies Program.
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Dickens Universe offers unforgettable intellectual retreat
The Dickens Universe combines elements of a research symposium, arts festival, book club, and summer camp all rolled into one big, unforgettable week of intellectual celebration.
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UCSC receives NEA grant to celebrate poetry of environmental advocate Robinson Jeffers
UC Santa Cruz is one of three California organizations who received grants today from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to celebrate the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize
Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita has received an honorable mention award from The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) as part of its 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies. Kinoshita received the honor for her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, published by the University of…
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UCSC alumna receives award from Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets has honored UCSC alumna Brenda Shaughnessy with the 2007 James Laughlin Award, which gives $5,000 for the most outstanding second book by an American poet published in the previous year. Shaughnessy, who earned a B.A. in literature/creative writing from UCSC in 1991, received the award for her collection Human Dark…
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Alumnus shares his worldwide expertise on building memorials
When memorials celebrate a nation’s triumphs, they take a grand approach: classic columns, towering arches, soaring stairways. But how might people memorialize “a crime perpetrated in their name”? When the Berlin Senate commissioned a panel to select the
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May 10 bell hooks event postponed
Acclaimed author, social critic, and UC Santa Cruz alumna bell hooks will speak on the topic “What’s Love Got To Do With It? Ending Domination,” on Thursday, May 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room at UC Santa Cruz. Admission is free and the public is invited. UPDATE:…