To celebrate the recent addition of facsimiles of original William Faulkner manuscripts, the UC Santa Barbara library last week displayed a few of the volumes at an event where five undergraduate scholars in the English department presented their research, all of whom utilized the literary papers.
The 44 volumes of facsimiles — exact or high-quality copies — of original hand-written and typed manuscripts from renowned author William Faulkner, are now housed in the library’s Special Research Collections.
UC Santa Barbara Writing student Greg Silver recently interviewed Dance major Abby LoSole about her time learning and teaching ballet in downtown Santa Barbara.
UC Santa Barbara students Alexander Shuryepov and Mitchka Saberi have proven that with passion, dedication and support, almost anything is possible. Their short-feature film, Mother of Chernobyl, originally produced for UCSB’s GreenScreen program and released in the spring of 2019, was an official selection at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has won two major awards, and is going on to Moscow.
The Professional Writing Minor at UC Santa Barbara.held its annual information session last week, marking a pivotal moment for its applicants: It’s time to start preparing to apply for the coming year. The Minor has launched a new Journalism track, and now offers students a choice of six distinct areas of professional focus. The other tracks are: Business Communication, Civic Engagement, Multimedia Communication, Professional Editing, and Science Communication. Read more about this popular program here.
The UCSB Percussion Ensemble gave its performance for the quarter at Karl Geiringer Hall last week. The program, titled “Mostly Mallets, almost entirely featured compositions which were written and arranged for keyboard percussion instruments like the xylophone, marimba and vibraphone.
Andrew Hartman, a U.S. political history professor at Illinois State University, visited UC Santa Barbara to discuss Marxism’s impact on modern American politics and economics.
Joy Harjo, the first Native American US Poet Laureate, spoke to UC Santa Barbara literature and writing students at the College of Creative Studies.
This symposium highlighted research in graphic visualization of representation, power, and identity. Topics such as race, sexuality, nation, and more were explored through the power and ability of engagement through comics, a rising medium in cultural studies research. Visiting Professor Frederick Luis Aldama from The Ohio State University joined other graduate students from a wide span of universities to discuss this growing interest in visual representation.
UCSB art student Peytie Slater has a passion for fashion and positive self-expression, which she expresses through wearing her unique outfits on campus. She shares her story behind creating her fashion brand, True Violette.
Greg Silver, a student in the Writing Program, shares a deeply personal journey about how he came to love writing.
After over a decade a service, Jamie Birkett is leaving his position as the Technical Director for the Department of Theater and Dance.
UCSB Music faculty took to the stage of Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall last week to perform two world premiere compositions from composer Elena Ruehr. Ruehr, who studied at the University of Michigan and Julliard, is a lecturer of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts awardee.
UC Santa Barbara’s Classics department’s work with historically black colleges and universities has been recognized by the Society for Classical Studies with its 2019 Equity Award. Classics professor Brice Erickson discusses the department’s groundbreaking summer project with Howard University students.
