humanities

The generosity of Kwame J. Granderson, a real estate attorney and developer, will help generations of Bruins ‘write to the top’ of any field they choose.

A curated selection of stories from across the UCLA campus spotlighting Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices, histories and research.

A curated selection of stories from across the UCLA campus spotlighting Jewish American voices, histories and research.

Meet the latest additions to the legion of UCLA recipients of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship — the most prestigious arts award in the nation.

Faculty Bulletin Board is a biweekly a snapshot of the many ways Bruin scholars and researchers are advancing knowledge, shaping their fields and powering progress on campus and around the world.

Faculty Bulletin Board is a biweekly a snapshot of the many ways Bruin scholars and researchers are advancing knowledge, shaping their fields and powering progress on campus and around the world.

The collaboration with Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University will create what could become the largest digital collection of its kind outside of Japan.

Floridalma Boj Lopez’s new book reminds audiences that Maya are still here and are critical cultural producers.

Maltese is spoken by only about 530,000 people worldwide, but it sparked a friendship between 2 UCLA grad students.

UCLA College’s “Cabinet of Curiosities” podcast explores folklore, festivity and the afterlife with scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly.

The study led by UCLA professor Thiago Puglieri incorporates meaningful input from the Amazon region’s Tikuna community.

The approach aims to make ancient Greek and Roman studies more accessible — more personal, even — for more students.

Linguistics professor Jessica Rett is studying how different words related to ‘cancer’ can influence patients’ treatment decisions.

The lecturer’s novel follows the lives of a middle-class family from Altadena, California, where she was born and raised.

Uprooted from Los Angeles, a husband and wife chronicled 17 years through tanka poems.

Francesca Caccini’s “La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina,” which premiered in Florence, Italy, will come to life in Los Angeles.

A prolific editor and author, Braunmuller was acclaimed for expertise on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance.

A UCLA art historian is exploring what the color blue can tell us about the hidden history of Indigenous peoples.

Philosopher Paul Taylor has a unique story to tell — about comedy, Hallmark movies and Black aesthetics in the U.S.

All across campus, UCLA faculty and staff are preserving endangered pieces of cultural heritage, allowing us to better understand our world — and our place in it. 

The linguistics professor studies how children from a wide range of backgrounds learn speech and language from their environments.

The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.

In his new book and a Dec. 3 lecture, William Schniedewind offers bold new answers to the eternally fascinating question.

Alumnus Tom Bye and husband David Bohne continue to celebrate a linguistics love story.

He joined UCLA in 1966 as an assistant professor of English and in 1978, he became a full professor and English department chair.