Archived Spotlight Posts

Writing Programs faculty member Maja Manojlovic will present her pitch for her team’s project, ScribeVR, at the Celebrating UCLA Entrepreneurs Pitch Showcase on November 2nd. ScribeVR is a concept for…

Writing Programs’ Tara Prescott-Johnson was featured in UCLA Undergraduate Admission’s Faculty Spotlight event on October 10th during the Fall 2020 Open House. During the event, Dr. Prescott-Johnson and Chemistry professor…

David Kipen and his student, Kennedy Hill, talk about reviving Roosevelt’s Federal Writers Project to help today’s unemployed writers during the pandemic. The interview, which appears on “L.A. Times Today,”…

“An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Until We’re Fish, blends the romance, violence, mood, and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. With the truth…

“Jaurretche uses a skillful examination of the rhetorical, linguistic, psychological, and emotional elements of spirituality to establish the central significance of prayer as a tool for understanding key aspects of…

Writing Programs lecturers Randy Fallows and Tamar Christensen published their book Own Your Perspective: A Concise Exploration into Content and Form to help students “discover, develop, and revise an analytical…

The recipients of UCLA’s highest honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Awards, were honored by the UCLA Academic Senate at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching awards ceremony…

“What’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.” Writing Programs lecturer Donald Vincent’s first poetry collection Convenient Amnesia explores such powerful themes as “racial injustice, personal relationships, and…

Acclaimed for its uniqueness and rigor among UCLA’s curricular offerings, the Honors Collegium features small seminars that are distinctive for their interdisciplinary approach to learning. Faculty direct these courses to…

A mother lies dying. Is she really sick? Will she survive? Is the writer by her side a son, a man or merely another doomed citizen? These are the questions…