Events

Noel King Memorial Lecture Speakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) Title: "Muslims, Jews, and Modernity: Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses" Reception to Follow

Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago […]

Professor James Young, Director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst, will speak Wednesday March 9 at UCSC. His talk will take place in Classroom Building Unit 2 from 8 -9:10 am as part of a class on the Holocaust and is open to the general public. Professor Young was the Chair of the […]

Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela. Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.   Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies […]

This week the Living Writers Series offers a selection of readings by UCSC Graduate Students, including Juliana Leslie, Tim Yamamura, Jake Thomas, Andrea Quaid, and Eireene Nealand. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series Please join us in welcoming two new voices to the Faculty Reading Series:  Terry Terhaar will be reading non-fiction and Travis Mossetti will be reading poetry.  A returning reader, Maureen Foster, will also be reading poetry.  As we add new teachers to our faculty, it is a pleasure to […]

In Richards (2010) I posited a universal condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which was intended to predict whether a given language would move its wh-phrases or leave them in situ.  The condition requires a wh-phrase to be in the same prosodic domain as the interrogative complementizer which Agrees with it.  Whether a language has […]