Humanities
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UCSC to present major West Coast ‘Paul Bowles Centennial Celebration’
The seventh and last international centennial event celebrating the birth of renowned American writer and composer Paul Bowles will take place at UCSC, Feb. 4–6. Conceived by a UCSC music lecturer and inheritor of Bowles’ musical estate, the 3-day event will include rare music, film, art, and an academic conference.
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UCSC National Book Award Finalist to appear at Bookshop Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz literature professor and National Book Award Finalist Karen Tei Yamashita will discuss her acclaimed novel I Hotel at Bookshop Santa Cruz on January 25.She will also appear at UCSC on January 13 as part of the campus’s Winter 2011 Living Writer Series.
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History grad teaches English and blogs from China
This month, UC Santa Cruz grad Matthew Palm (Kresge, History, ’10) writes in his periodic blog from China about his teenage students and the impromptu English speeches he asked them to give.
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History graduate heading to Scotland on prestigious Marshall Scholarship
Five months after she graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in history, Cynthia Thickpenny has won a Marshall Scholarship–one of the most prestigious awards that American undergraduates can receive.
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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.
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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.
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Ethics lecture examines moral boundaries of scientific research
“Advances in Biotechnology and Medicine: Stretching the Moral Boundaries” is just the beginning of a new series of ethics lectures that will be presented by the UCSC Humanities Division.
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Humanities Division honors freshman writing students with new award
After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, senior lecturer emeritus in writing Don Rothman has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their writing teachers.
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Bill Ladusaw and Jim McCloskey elected fellows of Linguistic Society of America
UCSC interim humanities dean William Ladusaw and linguistics professor James McCloskey have been elected as fellows of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). The LSA is the major professional society in the United States dedicated to the scientific study of language. The organization plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship, as well…
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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.
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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.
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UCSC names new Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Philanthropy
Jeffrey J. Shilling, former chief development officer for Stanford University’s Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation, has been named associate vice chancellor for strategic philanthropy at UC Santa Cruz.