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The Business and Craft of Storytelling
April 16, 2012Dana Gioia, Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at USC, and Deborah Harkness, professor of history in USC Dornsife and author of the best-selling book, A Discovery of Witches, will be featured speakers at the… more>
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May 2, 2011
Politics, Punk Rock and The Lie
The 16th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books took place at USC this past weekend with readers of all ages meandering around University Park Campus learning about children’s literature from Hugo and the Really,… more>
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A Soul Divided
April 25, 2011In an excerpt from her poem “Twin Cities II,” Carol Muske-Dukes writes: A single Mind, forever unable to refuse its overstatement: bloodOn snow, the gnawed bars of the trap, crack after crack In the courthouse… more>
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USC Dornsife at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 25, 2011The 2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books comes to the USC campus on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. Join faculty from USC Dana and… more>
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Faculty Bookplate
April 24, 2011MM-Personal From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe Abrams / Lois Banner, professor of history and gender studies, peers behind the veil of the legend that is Marilyn Monroe to clarify, qualify or reverse many common… more>
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Scholarship Bound
August 2, 2008Exporting American Dreams Six years after Thurgood Marshall argued Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court, Kenyan independence leaders asked the civil rights icon to help write their constitution. Mary L.… more>
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Waging War Against 'Urban Underclass'
November 20, 2006An ever-escalating gang problem in the United States has been fought since the 1940s. And if something drastic is not done, the country is condemned to deal with a proliferation of street gangs for decades to come. So… more>
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