Alumni

USC Dornsife’s William Deverell and David Ulin spearhead “Writing from California,” a two-part program held in Los Angeles and San Francisco sponsored by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW).

Student

Syd Field, a lecturer in USC Dornsife’s Master of Professional Writing program, was considered the “guru of all screenwriters.”

Faculty

USC Dornsife faculty collaborate on a Pasadena Playhouse production opening Aug. 15 about writer Zora Neale Hurston, best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Social Impact

USC Dornsife’s Kaya Press publishes the first-ever English translation of two works by long-lost author Shoson Nagahara, who wrote about the dark underbelly of 1920s Japanese immigrant life in L.A.’s Little Tokyo.