humanities

'Urban Tumbleweed' — the latest book by award-winning poet and UCLA English professor Harryette Mullen — combines two of her most enjoyable activities that she wanted to do more of: walk and write poetry.

UCLA's Friends of English book club supports the English department by funding graduate fellowships, scholarships and research.

Eric Jager's newest nonfiction thriller, "Blood Royal," looks at the brutal murder of King Charles VI's brother, the Duke of Orleans, in Paris in the midst of the Hundred Years' War.

For the past 40 years, Maryanne Horowitz has tried to attend at least one event a month at UCLA's Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies even as she climbed the tenure ladder, raised three children and taught up to three history courses at a...

The comprehensive English-language tome, compiled by UCLA's Robert E. Buswell Jr. and a colleague, is the first to cover terms from all the religion's canonical languages and traditions.

Poet Sabrina Youmans will read from her work, “Pacific Standard Time,” this Thursday, Dec. 5 at 4 p.m. at UCLA's Powell Library. Youmans, who is on staff in UCLA Athletics as a senior learning specialist supporting student athletes, will be joined...

Two prominent faculty members in the College of Letters and Science cemented their legacy of distinction at UCLA by making a joint testamentary pledge of $1 million.

Studying the depictions of garbage in art, documenatry and pop culture forces us to talk about a topic many consider taboo and trivial.

Some 150 years before game theory was used by superpowers during the Cold War, Austen mapped its strategies in all six of her novels, UCLA's Michael Suk-Young Chwe argues.

Arguably the most collaborative space on campus, where disciplines like computer science, urban planning, Near Eastern languages and cultures and interactive mapping collide into creative scholarship.