USC Dornsife News

The honored humanities scholars bring the number of USC Dornsife academy fellows to 23.

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.

A mixed-reality game centers on a 1930s gangster and half a million dollars in missing gold.

Professor Dana Gioia, California’s poet laureate, discusses his strategy for writing a poem to capture the heart of your Valentine.

Bruce Smith of English and theater helps us put the Bard’s influence into perspective on the quadricentennial of his passing.

Film writer/director Edoardo Ponti ’94 and University Professor of English David St. John engage in a candid exchange about why, more than ever, students need to have the courage to tell their stories while developing their craft.

A USC Dornsife Writing Program instructor known for her wit and kindness, Phyllis Franzek played an important role in shaping and expanding the university’s writing curriculum over the course of 18 years.

A pioneering visionary in the use of computer technology to further the study of literature, Robert “Bob” Dilligan was a gifted teacher of Romantic poetry who spearheaded the development of digital humanities in a career at USC Dornsife that spanned 35 years.

Reflecting on the past year, each writer in the USC Dornsife Communication Office sorted through his or her stories to choose the one he or she most enjoyed producing in 2015.