With 30+ faculty, a dozen research centers and projects, and a culture of collaboration, we continue to invent new ways to do humanities research, creative-critical work, and public-facing projects on a beautiful campus between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez mountains.
Faculty Bookshelf
The inscriptive . . . takes shape within the context of a heightened awareness of the intensified generation and circulation of language across media environments by human and nonhuman agents alike…
Poetic and abolitionist imaginaries continue to intervene in our current political and cultural landscape in ways that challenge the violent status quo. As our beautiful vision reminds us, we are not the passive observers of history…
2016
In the fall of 2013, we asked ourselves what we’d learn if we made a broadside ballad from the ground up; The Making of a Broadside Ballad provides our answers to that question. Taking cues ...
Read The Making of a Broadside Ballad (Internet Archive link).
Research Project
Recent & Upcoming Courses
ENGL 197
Poetics and Politics of WasteInstructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
Quarter: Spring 2022
ENGL 50
Introduction to Comparative Ethnic LiteraturesInstructor: Rana, Swati
Quarter: Spring 2023