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UCSB English Dept alumna Associate Professor Laura M. Furlan (’06) at University of Massachusetts Amherst has a new book coming out on November 1st:
Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation
Professor Chris Newfield is awarded an NEH grant to research the metrics of scholarship and learning.
Professor Paddy Fumerton and Kristy McCants, Assistant Director of EBBA, celebrate the arrival and installation of a mid-19th century Albion pull-press for the new UCSB Maker Lab on Friday, August 25th. The Maker Lab is part of a larger initiative being launched by Humanities and Fine Arts Dean John Majewski, called the Digital Arts and Humanities Commons, to showcase and ... Read on
U.S. News & World Report magazine has rated UCSB’s graduate program in English among the top 20 public universities, coming in at No. 14. More here.
At a time when words have been used to segregate and isolate, disparage and demean, threaten and attack specific social formations, the UCSB English Department believes it is important to make our commitments explicit. Our core values of fostering dialogue, civic engagement, and social justice compel us to speak out against racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic, antisemitic, xenophobic, ableist and all ... Read on
- Conduct research on the humanities in public life, journalism, public communications, and digital-humanities and data-journalism methods of analyzing media (e.g., “topic modeling”).
- $500 stipend for meeting together periodically with a faculty member (Alan Liu) and graduate student (Jamal Russell) during Winter and Spring quarters of academic year 2016-2017.
- Earn course credit in Spring quarter.
- Option to apply for campus ... Read on
See the UCSB Current’s recent article on Professor Jim Kearney’s undergraduate class, “Experiencing Shakespeare.”
Professor Alan Liu’s 4Humanities initiative enjoys success as detailed by Shelly Leachman in an article for The UC Santa Barbara Current.
See below for a link out to the site and Jessica’s description of her project:
“Come Live With Me: Living the History of a Ballad” is now live and available for free to anyone who wants to know more about the literary life of Christopher Marlowe’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.’
The site is designed so that users ... Read on