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Over four decades, UCSB theater professor William Davies King has collected things of no commercial value. These items include 25,000 food product labels, 10,000 business cards, 2,300 cereal boxes, 1,400 bottle caps, 800 envelope linings, and other everyday items. A portion of King’s collection has been curated into an exhibition, located at UCSB Library’s Mountain Gallery and available online.
In a time when a global pandemic has forced educators to design creative solutions to learning at home, UC Santa Barbara Classics professor Dorota Dutsch has partnered with the Goleta Valley Library to digitally recreate Greek Myths for children. The recreations are offered to the public virtually each Friday as part of the library’s newest program: Special Guest Storytime.
Steven Gross, a professor of French Horn who heads the Woodwind, Brass and Percussion program at UC Santa Barbara, is currently the only full-time horn professor within the University of California system. In a recent phone interview, he discussed the career journey that led him to UCSB, as well as his latest projects.
Jesse Miller, a postdoctoral fellow of English and medical humanities at UCSB, is teaching an English course this spring called U.S. Cultures of Mental Illness. In a recent interview, Miller discussed his goals in designing the course and its relevance in the current social climate that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Academic Senate has recognized Art professor Kip Fulbeck’s many achievements with the 2019-2020 Faculty Diversity Award. Fulbeck is renowned for his groundbreaking exhibition and book “The Hapa Project,” which ran for 15 years and featured raw portraits of multiethnic individuals and their personal stories about being mixed-race.
The Classics department may be one of the smallest at UC Santa Barbara, yet it houses one of the most highly sophisticated and intensive fields of study. For graduate student and classics PhD candidate Olga Faccani, a passion for studying friendship ties within Greek tragedies has earned her a spot as a participant in Harvard University’s Institute for World Literature (IWL) this upcoming summer.
In celebration of Earth Day and the 2020 UCSB Reads selection, author Elizabeth Rush spoke about her book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, to a live virtual audience. She explained that coastal communities in the United States are at risk due to rising sea levels and “retreating” from coastal communities is essential to mitigate the effects of climate change.
UC Santa Barbara sociology major Olivia Roberts reflects on her discovery of the Linguistics Department and how the culture of language applies to her experience as an out-of-state college student.
At her virtual Friday evening book launch, UC Santa Barbara writing lecturer and former ballerina Ellen O’Connell Whittet spoke to over a hundred colleagues, friends, family, and students over Zoom about her new memoir: What You Become in Flight. O’Connell Whittet described how ballet normalizes “sacrificing the body, to contort it into something perfect” and why a career-ending injury made her consider how this principle impacted her life.
Though Carsey Wolf Center is unable to hold in-person film screenings this quarter due to COVID-19, post-film conversations with media experts from past screenings are available online. Catch up on previous discussions about filmmaking as Pollock Theater showcases past events as a weekly “Series Spotlight.”
Visiting linguistics professor Tracy Conner recently spoke at the UCSB Linguistics Department’s biweekly colloquium about her impactful research on syntactical patterns of African American English (AAE). Further study of these patterns could benefit educators and prevent young AAE speakers from wrongful speech disorder diagnoses.
Fourth-year English major and writing minor William Kang reflects on his writing experience at UCSB, including his position as a tutor at Campus Learning Assistance Services.
George Mason University historian Rosemarie Zagarri recently spoke to a UCSB audience about the ongoing demand for Electoral College system reform, especially after controversial elections. Her lecture, titled The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College, was co-sponsored by the departments of History, Political Science, Black Studies, as well as The Capps Center and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
