L.A.’s early 20th-century “Water Wars” over access to the precious H2O needed to fuel the city’s growth included a web of corruption and lies that inspired one of the most celebrated noir movies of all time: ‘Chinatown.’
Students explore when humanity runs ideas and beliefs through the legal wringer, from Socrates to the Salem Witch trials, and how these spectacles have changed our culture.
The relationship between modernist authors H.D. and Bryher spanned two world wars, four decades and even a few marriages (to other people).
USC Dornsife alumnus and Navy captain Chris Isleib helped create the first national memorial for World War I veterans, part of a long career spent telling the stories of America’s military.
In 2020, Hiram Sims ’05 opened the Sims Library of Poetry, a space for people from Inglewood and the rest of Los Angeles to read, write and create.
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]
Our sense of wonder at the cosmos, and our desire to try to make sense of our place within it, have inspired generations of artists, writers, designers, musicians and filmmakers. [10¼ min read]
Professors bring expertise in diaspora literature, Buddhism, moral motivation and more. [3 min read]
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]
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