Literature
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Founders Celebration recipients share commitment to social justice
Acclaimed author Toni Morrison’s appearance was a highlight of the 2014 Founders Celebration that also honored Professor Craig Haney, alumnus Mark Headley, and the Long family.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences offers LASER talk on Oct. 28
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first “LASER” talk of the academic year on October 28 at the Digital Arts Research Center.
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Fall Living Writers Series to feature Tobias Wolff, Karen Joy Fowler
Award-winning authors Tobias Wolff, Karen Joy Fowler, and Andrew Lam are just a few of the notable guests coming to UC Santa Cruz for the Fall 2014 Living Writers Series
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Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz announces endowment drive
Literature Professor John Jordan announced an endowment drive to support the Dickens Project today at the annual Dickens Universe gathering now taking place on campus
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Studying death in ancient Greece
Last year, UC Santa Cruz received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to undertake a summer institute investigating the history of mortality in ancient Greek culture…
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UC Santa Cruz humanities alum named 2014 ACLS Public Fellow
UC Santa Cruz humanities alumnus Michael Ursell has been named a 2014 ACLS Public Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Porter College announces inaugural Machotka Chairs in Creative Studies
Patty Gallagher, Gary Young, and Shelley Stamp have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
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Never give up on a dream
Re-entry student Raymundo Reyes, who dropped out of high school to raise seven siblings, is on to his next chapter—a literature degree from UC Santa Cruz.
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Wlad Godzich receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
Distinguished Professor of Literature Wlad Godzich was presented with the John Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities.
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UCSC emeritus professor Nathaniel Mackey wins prestigious poetry prize
Nathaniel Mackey, professor emeritus of literature at UC Santa Cruz, has been named the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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Grad student in literature awarded Mellon/ACLS fellowship
Ariane Helou, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Literature, has been awarded a 2013-14 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from The American Council of Learned Societies.
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UCSC awards first annual Gram Memorial Scholarship to creative writing student
UCSC student James Williams, a former machinist who returned to school to be around “people who talk about books,” is now the first recipient of the Kenneth Andrew Gram Memorial Scholarship.