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Literature

Award-winning novelist coming to UCSC on October 7

Sep 15, 2009 The UCSC Center for Labor Studies and the Living Writers Series will join together to present a reading by award-winning novelist Monique Truong, Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Humanities...

It's all in the family when children of alumni choose UCSC

May 25, 2009 Last spring, when their daughter was deciding where to go to college, UCSC graduates Moira and Dency Nelson tried to play it cool and hide their Banana Slug pride. They wanted their daughter,...

Former student remembers author and UCSC lecturer James Houston

Apr 29, 2009 Steve Woodhams (Porter College 1974-77) offers a remembrance of author and former UCSC lecturer James D. Houston, who died on April 16 at his home in Santa Cruz. ...

Write an "Ode to Santa Cruz"--winning poem to be read onstage by Garrison Keillor during May 13 show at Santa Cruz Civic

Apr 21, 2009 Submit your best "Ode to Santa Cruz" for a chance to win tickets to attend An Evening with Garrison Keillor at the Santa Cruz Civic. The host of A Prairie Home Companion will read the...

UCSC alumna author looks out for kids who can't read

Mar 18, 2009 Susan Blackaby has always kept her eye out for the kid who can't read. An educational writer for the past 25 years, the UC Santa Cruz alumna has written more than 120 books for children to inspire...

UC Santa Cruz lecturer receives prestigious national poetry award

Mar 9, 2009 UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been honored with the 2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The prestigious national award is given annually to "a living...

New book dedicated to work of international literary scholar/founding UCSC faculty member

Mar 4, 2009 A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Art of Interpretation (Fordham University Press, 2009) celebrates more than four decades of groundbreaking work by UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor...

Alum Michael Scherer covers the White House for Time magazine

Mar 2, 2009 UCSC grad Michael Scherer is covering the White House for Time magazine....

Literary Studies book series co-founded at UCSC to benefit from $1.16 million Mellon Foundation grant

Feb 12, 2009 A UC Press book series in literary studies--founded by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Richard Terdiman in collaboration with his colleague Susan Gillman and faculty from UC Berkeley and...

UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition

Jan 20, 2009 When the directors of San Francisco's Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google...