January 25, 2016
…1970s. Each quarter the Department of Literature hosts the “new” writing series, and this winter’s series, which began Jan. 13 and runs through March 2, takes a transnational focus with guest writers John Gibler, Lorena Gomez Mostajo, John B. Washington and Marivi Blanco. The next presentation, featuring Washington, takes place…
February 12, 2020
The greater San Diego-Tijuana region will get a rare opportunity to engage with contemporary Indigenous writing and poetry, part of an international symposium addressing the importance and impact of Indigenous language and literature.
February 12, 2015
…Associates Chair in Italian Literature Cristina Della Coletta, a professor of Italian literature, is the new dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego. A doctoral alumna of UCLA, Della Coletta was on the faculty at the University of Virginia from 1992 to 2014, serving there…
July 20, 2021
Associate professor Amelia Glaser has been named a 2021–2022 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, where she will investigate contemporary literature and art in Ukraine to better understand how a collective identity can be publicly reimagined during, and immediately following, political upheaval.
February 18, 2021
…in history, philosophy and literature bring discussion of today’s pandemic into the classroom, offering students a unique way of learning The first entry in Paige Nguyen’s pandemic diary shows a quiet campus. Photo courtesy of Paige Nguyen. The first photo in Paige Nguyen’s pandemic diary is full of complexities. The…
January 18, 2024
Professor and Chair of Literature Kazim Ali presents a retrospective book of poetry traversing ideas of home, spirituality, love and loss.
September 26, 2013
…of UC San Diego Literature Department, Dies Carlos Blanco Aguinaga at the Thurgood Marshall College opening ceremony on September 26, 1970. Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, distinguished literary critic, fiction writer, and one of the founders of UCSD’s Literature Department, died in La Jolla on September 11, 2013. Born in Irún, in…
February 16, 2016
…noted cosmetic surgeon and alumnus Dr. Gregory Buford, ’90, literature, will deliver the keynote address. Alumni, faculty and students are encouraged to attend the informative, fun-filled event and to present posters, artwork and performances.
February 15, 2018
…creates “virtual endowment” for literature students Susan Kirkpatrick, professor emerita of Spanish Literature, is creating the Kirkpatrick Literature Ph.D. Research Fund to provide research support for incoming doctoral students in the Department of Literature. The fund will provide an annual award of $2,000, with the aim of helping the department…
January 17, 2017
…that approach is the Department of History’s Distinguished Professor Paul Pickowicz and Department of Literature Chair Yingjin Zhang, who have coedited the new book, “Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First Century China” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). The book includes essays about a Chinese film group led by Wu Wenguang,…
