Awards recognize a summer enrollment campaign, a video of professors reacting to student reviews, the online and print editions of USC Dornsife Magazine and a first-place alumni profile.
The Distinguished Professor of English earns fiction’s highest honor for his novel James, which offers a searing retelling of a Mark Twain classic.
Buoyed by his background as a lawyer and his USC Dornsife degree in English, Robert Greene has spent decades covering criminal justice and the legal system. [4¼ min read]
Viet Thanh Nguyen, associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, The Sympathizer, which explores the Vietnam War from multiple perspectives.
The award, for local reporting, is for work done at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, California.
