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Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

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  • National Public Radio Recognizes EBBA

    June 1, 2016

    See the following link for a radio interview with KCLU’s Lance Orozsco and Patricia Fumerton: http://www.tinyurl.com/h3v6y72

  • Vivian Martinez Selected for the RRASC Internship Program

    April 27, 2016

    The Civil Liberties & Public Policy program at Hampshire College selected Vivian Martinez, an English – Global Studies double major, for the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps internship program this summer. Please click here for the full press release.

  • EBBA Feature: Pages Out of History

    April 21, 2016

    Read The Current’s Pages Out of History for a write up on the English Broadside Ballad Archive’s sixth NEH grant and see below for an interview with Patricia Fumerton.

    UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.

  • EBBA Receives Its 6th NEH Grant!

    March 28, 2016

    The NEH has awarded Patricia Fumerton her 6th grant, $260,000, toward UCSB’s English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu.

    With third-party contributions and cost-share the total amount is $538,000. This brings the amount to date awarded to EBBA to 3 1/2 million dollars, the majority of which has gone towards supporting graduate students across UCSB’s historical fields primarily in the ... Read on

  • Writing Your Own Story: UCSB Department of English

    March 26, 2016

    Watch this featurette detailing our English undergraduates’ involvement in UCSB’s student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.

  • Enda Duffy on St. Patrick’s Day

    March 17, 2016

    See the post at: https://wallethub.com/blog/st-patricks-day-statistics/10960/#enda-duffy

  • Launch of EMC Imprint Press and Making book

    February 9, 2016

    It’s here! A new multi-media, refereed e-press, The EMC Imprint and its first digital e-book, The Making of a Broadside Ballad, ed. Patricia Fumerton, Andrew Griffin, and Carl Stahmer!

    The EMC Imprint Press was founded by Patricia Fumerton at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Embracing multi-media publication, the Imprint offers rigorous peer-review and is affiliated with the ... Read on

  • Announcing Teresa Shewry’s new book, Hope at Sea (2015)!

    September 21, 2015

    Hope at Sea

    Find out more about Teresa’s new book at the University of Minnesota Press’s website or at our Faculty Bookshelf.

  • Summer Sessions at UCSB!

    July 31, 2015

    Space is still available in a variety of dynamic English courses offered during Session B, which officially begins on Monday, August 3 and concludes on Saturday, September 12.

  • EHI in the News!

    May 21, 2015

    The UCSB Current has published an article on the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI).

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