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Read here: Recently, Professor Emerita Shirley Geok-lin Lim was in conversation with Feminist Press, who published her memoir Among the White Moon Faces, winner of the American Book Award. Two of her other works, novel Joss and Gold and the collection Two Dreams, were also published by Feminist Press. Professor Lim talks about the foundational role that feminism, specifically feminist writing, has played ... Read on
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Read here: Santa Barbara Independent author, David Starkey, interviews Dana Gioia in anticipation for his upcoming talk at USCB! Click the link to read more.
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English Department Doctoral Candidate Clinton Terrell Receives Prestigious UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for 2025-2026 Academic Year.
He previously received a Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, and a Ford Dissertation Fellowship. Clinton’s dissertation committee includes Ben Olguin (Chair), Bernadette Andrea, Felice Blake, Joy James (Williams College), and Robert Weide (Cal State LA). As a CPFP he will be ... Read on
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Faculty in the Department of English write on the cusp of an authorized strike by our graduate instructors and other academic workers to affirm that we support graduate student instructors in their pursuit of a contract that includes a substantial increase in salaries and other matters. Our support is based on the recognition of graduate-student labor as foundational to the ... Read on
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In The Current’s recent article “Perspectives on Juneteenth,” Professor of English Stephanie Batiste joined other UCSB scholars to discuss what the holiday symbolizes and how it can be observed. Find it here.
UCSB English professor Kenneth Hiltner was recently named a 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. As a professor of Environmental Humanities, Hiltner uses his popular Ecocriticism and Climate Crisis courses to educate students and the general public about environmental issues. In a recent interview, Hiltner discussed the evolution of his academic career, the ... Read on
UCSB English is excited to announce that applications are now open for our 2021-22 Writing Contests and Prizes! Submissions are due May 5th. Winners will be announced towards the end of the quarter.
UCSB Transcription Center’s STS + Speculative Futures Interest Group is back with its final series of events for Spring 2022!
The UCSB Women’s Center, in partnership with the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Union, the Feminist Studies Department, and the Graduate Student Resource Center, is now accepting abstracts for its upcoming graduate student conference, “Feminist Pedagogies,” which will run on Saturday, May 22. Abstracts are due on March 31.
UCSB English Professor Amrah Salomón’s poetry is currently being featured in the collaborative art and history exhibit “Hostile Terrain 94” at the Museum of Us in San Diego! The exhibit focuses on on the violence of the U.S.-Mexico border. It includes a large interactive map of migrant deaths at the border in Arizona, film and visual art representing occupied O’odham ... Read on