Please see "News and Announcements" (left side of page) for updates on our current faculty, grads, and alums |

[read more] Jun 16, 2008

Professor Melanie Rae Thon received a Grant for Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. |

[read more] Aug 21, 2008

Professor Steve Tatum was awarded the Don D. Walker Prize by the Western Literature Association in 2007 for the best article or essay in Western American studies, given for Professor Tatum’s essay "Spectral Beauty and Forensic Aesthetics in the West" (in |

[read more] Aug 21, 2008

Professor Maeera Shreiber held the Rabbi Sallie Preisand Visiting Chair in Jewish and Women's Studies in 2008 at Hebrew Union College (the Rabbinical College for the Union of Reform Judaism, Los Angeles Campus). |

[read more] Aug 21, 2008

Professor Kathryn Stockton received the Modern Language Association’s Crompton-Noll Prize in 2007 for the best essay in gay and lesbian studies. The essay was entitled “Feeling Like Killing? Queer Temporalities of Murderous Motives among Queer Children” |

[read more] Aug 21, 2008