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Alex Tan, UCI aluma - MFA English holding the poetry book she wrote.

Finding her place

Torn between poetry and fiction, Inez Tan earns an M.F.A. at UCI, with scholarship support, then stays on campus to teach creative writing

UCI English lecturer Lorene Delany-Ullman

Mourning becomes eclectic

Exhibition featuring people’s mementos of deceased loved ones explores nature of grief

UCI Podcast: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The acclaimed writer shares the tale of his prison captivity and writing the influential novel, Devil on the Cross

Ngugi wa Thiong’o receives honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Edinburgh

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Scotland’s University of Edinburgh on July 8. He was presented to the university’s academic senate by Thomas Molony of the School of Social & Political Science, who recognized the Kenyan author’s significant leadership in shifting the […]

Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus wins award from Society for Study of Southern Literature

Brook Thomas has won the 2018 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature for The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), described as “the go-to book on Reconstruction for at least a generation” by the SSSL panel. Drawing on 19th-century historiography […]

Distinguished Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o wins 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]

A physician-scholar first

UCI grad student Sarah O’Dell is pursuing both an M.D. and a doctorate in the humanities

Literary journalism at UCI: The backstory

The who, what, where, when and why of the only such major in the nation

Distinguished Professor emeritus Jack Miles to be Boston College visiting chair

John R. “Jack” Miles, UCI Distinguished Professor emeritus of English and religious studies, has been appointed the 2018-19 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations at the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. An accomplished scholar, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his first book, God: A Biography; was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship […]

Chancellor's Professor of English, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies.School of Humanities Jonathan Alexander.

A new ‘Wrinkle’

Time is right for Disney adaptation of young adult sci-fi classic, says UCI English professor