USC Dornsife News

Anna Journey of English publishes a collection of essays and a new book of poems that explore her fascination with the peculiar and the grotesque.

The highly regarded instructor and scholar is hailed as “an engaged — and intellectually engaging — citizen” who exemplifies the liberal arts mindset.

The University Professor of English and Comparative Literature takes a leadership role in the nation’s largest membership-based nonprofit organization championing poets and poetry.

USC Dornisfe’s Viet Thanh Nguyen delivers an acclaimed nonfiction work on the Vietnam War that raises questions about the ethics of memory as he explores how different countries remember the conflict.

Undergraduates find inspiration through unprecedented access to best-selling authors in a contemporary prose course taught by Christopher Freeman of English.

America has always regarded the Vietnam War as its own personal horror story. As we recognize the 50th anniversary of this tragic conflict, USC Dornsife scholars challenge this one-sided perspective, re-examining the legacy of what even the Vietnamese refer to as “The American War.”

This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife scholars view trees. From the landscape of forests in the American West to sustainability to trees designed to study algebraic functions, our academic endeavors connect to a sturdy trunk of curiosity and explore issues across a broad canopy of disciplines.

Hailed as a sci-fi capital, Los Angeles has long served as an inspiration and backdrop for some of the best science fiction ever produced in literature or film. A conference organized by William Deverell of history and David Ulin of English explores the city’s profound and complex relationship with the genre.