Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex” Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of […]
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The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: “Community College Teaching: A View From Inside” Victoria Bañales Victoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in […]
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14 November 2017 / 21 February 2018 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The panelists included UCSC Literature PhD alum Kendra Dority, who is now Assistant Director at the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning on campus, and Literature graduate students Sarah Papazoglakis and Kara Hisatake.
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The “unofficial medievalist to CNN,” David M. Perry is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in CNN.com, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, […]
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli […]
Earl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and […]
Event Podcast: “In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of […]
This day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, […]
Governor Jerry Brown’s recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California’s water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at […]
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical […]
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of […]
8 December 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Courtney Mahaney | Leave a Comment
“Savage Breast,” a new short story by UC Santa Cruz alumna Elizabeth McKenzie, will be featured in the December 15 issue of The New Yorker magazine. “The story is about a woman who […]
5 August 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor John Jordan today announced an endowment drive to support the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz. Jordan, director and co-founder of the Dickens Project, shared […]
10 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
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. Raymundo Reyes’s first job […]
20 March 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA). The award is given for a selection of […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. January 19th – Who […]
Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 16th – Freaks (1932, dir. […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 9th – Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 2nd – Mother Joan […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. Relationships come and […]
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. February 2nd – Arrebato (1980, dir. […]
The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film) One of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo […]
