USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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  The Fabulous Fulbrights

  May 10, 2013

  Ten exceptional USC Dornsife students have been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship, which awards them for academic achievement and commitment to cultural engagement. USC has been recognized as one of the top 40… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research, joint educational project, undergraduate research, graduate research, diversity, comparative studies in literature and culture, graduate diversity, undergraduate diversity, community engagement, awards

  tags: ana lee, andrew ju, art, cy twombly, french, fulbright scholarship, history, india, international development, international relations, italy, jasneet aulakh, jonathan truong, joshua rivkin, juan espinoza, laos, media studies, megan rilkoff, mexico, molly levine, nuclear energy, overseas studies, poetry, portugal, rebecca braun, south korea, thailand, travis glynn, vietnam

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  From Page to Mainstage

  February 11, 2011

  Veronica Franco, history’s most complex and colorful courtesan, appears in many forms in the office of Margaret Rosenthal, professor of Italian, comparative literature and English in USC College. A Madame Alexander doll,… more>

  categories: faculty research

  tags: book, comparative literature, english, french and italian, italian, italy, literature, margaret rosenthal, musical, play

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  Renaissance Capitalist

  January 21, 2009

  In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (1480-1519), stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his… more>

  categories: research

  tags: business, history, humanities, italy, machiavelli