• UCSB English Professor Candace Waid receives the Faulkner Journal’s Jim Hinkle Memorial Prize for 2006-12 for “Burying the Regional Mother: Faulkner’s Road to Race through the Visual Arts,” Vol. 23.1 (2007).

    Professor Waid receives the honor that is only awarded once every five years, the plaudit is reserved for a single essay, published in The Faulkner Journal, seen as making ... Read on

  • Chair’s Speech as delivered at the English Department Major’s Reception, UCSB Commencement, June 16 2013.

    “Slow Reading” Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, Acting Chair

    Welcome to our graduates – and welcome to all the families and friends who have supported your graduates on the long trip to the happy celebration today. Warmest congratulations to each of you!

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  • Professor Stephanie Batiste’s book Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance was awarded Honorable Mention by the Association for Theatre of Higher Education’s Outstanding Book Award for 2012.