USC Dornsife News

Six new tenure-track faculty members bring expertise in subjects ranging from philosophy to biology and from comparative literature to religion.

The emeritus professor, named by the French government a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms in 2014, is recognized for distinguished research achievements.

Water has inspired famed literary tales such as Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ and the Bible’s great flood and launched the revolutionary art movement called Impressionism, making it as essential to art is it is to life on Earth.

Encounters with key faculty members helped Hameedha Khan overcome the uncertainty that marked her initial days at USC.

Since graduating in 2015 with a degree in comparative literature, Tiffany Babb has made a career out of writing about the things she finds most interesting. [4¾ min read]

The Department of English, with the support of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation and in collaboration with Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review, will award the $20,000 prize during a gala at USC on April 21. [5¾ min read]

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing Indra Mukhopadhyay synthesizes Eastern and Western philosophy in his popular writing classes. [6¼ min read]

“We think it’s all weirdos and whackos, but fringe culture has real implications,” says USC Dornsife alumnus Colin Dickey, who explores the paranormal and the occult in his books. [5¾ min read]

The Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and USC Dornsife professor joins U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actor Tom Hanks and former President Barack Obama in being elected to the academy’s 238th class.