USC Dornsife News

Award-winning poet Anna Journey celebrates her first year of teaching at USC Dornsife where she shares with students her love of the grotesque.

Poet and English alumna Barbara Duffey, winner of the 2014 National Endowment for the Arts’ Creative Writing Fellowship, explores the intersection of literature and science.

Poet and writer Dana Gioia of USC Dornsife to be presented a national prize recognizing his lifetime achievement.

Distinguished Professor of English Percival Everett receives a $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to research in Algiers and Corsica for his next book about the World War II submarine Casabianca.

Poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Dana Gioia teaches in USC Dornsife’s English department. His unusual path includes a post as a marketing executive for General Foods, leading the team that created Jell-O Jigglers.