USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife’s Joseph Boone, Macarena Gómez-Barris, María-Elena Martínez and James McHugh receive prestigious humanities fellowships.

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.

USC Dornsife’s Alex Young is awarded the American Studies Association’s 2013 Comparative Ethnic Studies Prize for his paper on three contemporary figures he suggests share a vision of personal freedom despite seemingly wildly opposing political views.

In his new memoir Trying to Be Cool, USC Dornsife’s Leo Braudy reconstructs his 1950s teenage years when searching for the elusive state of cool.

Award-winning poet Mark Irwin, associate professor in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature program at USC Dornsife, has published his seventh collection of poems, about memory, desire and the passage of time.

Aimee Bender, professor of English and director of the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature program at USC Dornsife, celebrates the birth of her twins and a new book filled with stories of the strange and magical.

Three highly regarded USC Dornsife novelists draw from the city’s eccentrics and ordinary folk for their inspiration. But that doesn’t mean they have L.A. all figured out.

David St. John of USC Dornsife and Frank Ticheli of USC Thornton School of Music collaborate on The Shore, a chorus and orchestra piece that recently premiered at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a position as vice president of marketing at a job placement startup company.