Literature
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Why Does the Trump Compact Talk About Grading?
Professor Jody Greene, who recently served as associate campus provost for academic success at UC Santa Cruz and was the founding director of its teaching center, says some conservative critiques of grading link to conservative efforts to abandon holistic admissions and dismantle DEI programs.
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2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
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2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita was one of the judges for this year’s National Book Awards. Yamashita, who won the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Yamashita was a judge for works of translated literature.
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UC Santa Cruz’s ‘Festival of Monsters’ blends scholarship and scares this October
The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz in October. It’s a celebration of horror and theory hosted by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Monster Studies. This season also marks the arrival on campus of two new philosophy professors in the Humanities Division, Sara Bernstein and Daniel Nolan, whose collaborated on a project about what…
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Pirates, brothels and … the Bard? One of Shakespeare’s least-known plays gets rediscovered in Santa Cruz
The majority of the play “Pericles” is so far from Shakespeare’s style that many scholars believe the first two acts were written by someone else entirely — possibly George Wilkins. “What Shakespeare scholars tend to do is when they encounter something that they don’t like in Shakespeare, they say someone else wrote it,” said Sean…