February 21st, 2013
Hugh Wilford is one of four scholars/writers who appeared on the recent BBC Radio Documentary “The Real George Orwell: The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The documentary explores the historical background to the writing of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Click here to listen to the show.
Wilford is a professor in CSULB’s Department of History. His research interests... [Read more]
February 20th, 2013
Rafael Zepeda recently published his book Desperados (World Parade Books, 2013).
Beef Torrey, Co-Editor of Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Conversations With Hunter S. Thompson, had the following to say about Zepeda’s Desperados:
[It's] an enchanting and captivating cachet, cut from Zepeda’s own Iberian legacy. It presents the reader with a zany romp through the hinterlands of the Baja Peninsula of Mexico... [Read more]
February 20th, 2013
Alesia Campbell received a prestigious, two-year research scholarship awarded by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Alesia will be moving to Japan to continue studying Japanese Popular Media and the history of the Sengoku period leaders through the use of classical Japanese texts.
Alesia graduated from CSULB in fall 2012 with her M.A. in Asian... [Read more]
February 5th, 2013
Julie Weise of CSULB’s International Studies Program returned to campus in June 2012 from a one-year post-doctoral leave of absence in North Carolina and New Mexico where her examination of U.S. immigration was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the School for Advanced Research.
“I feel grateful that these grants are there for us... [Read more]
January 28th, 2013
Marie Kelleher, an associate professor of history at CSULB, received the 2012 Premio del Rey Book Prize by the American Historical Association (AHA) for her book titled The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon.
The AHA awards the major book prize biennially for a distinguished book in English in the field... [Read more]
January 18th, 2013
Spout Hill Press recently released Gerald Locklin’s Bear Trilogy: a reprint of The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen and the follow-up novellas Come Back, Bear and Last Tango in Long Beach.
As noted on the publisher’s website, Spout Hill Press is “dedicated to the beauty and elegance that can be found only in the novella. We publish works of this length because so... [Read more]
January 7th, 2013
Director Irek Dobrowolski screened and discussed his award-winning Holocaust documentary film The Portraitist on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at CSULB’s University Student Union Auditorium. The Portraitist recounts the photography and story of Wilhelm Brasse who was sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner in 1940. For five years, the Nazis forced Brasse, later nicknamed “the... [Read more]
January 3rd, 2013
The College of Liberal Arts congratulates Boak Ferris (ENGL) for being Inside CSULB’s Author of the Month for December 2012. His e-book for children Stewart and the Magic Carpet (Ion Publishing LLC 2012) follows Stewart the Penguin, an Antarctica native and intrepid explorer, who dreams of the day penguins will fly.
Ferris arrived at CSULB in 1977 after starting teaching at... [Read more]
January 3rd, 2013
The College of Liberal Arts congratulates Tyler Dilts (ENGL) for being Inside CSULB’s Author of the Month for November 2012. His book The Pain Scale (Thomas & Mercer, 2012) is the second in the Danny Beckett series; A Kink of Infinite Space (AmazonEncore, 2010) is the first. Dilts received his M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach, where he now teaches. His writing has appeared... [Read more]
December 31st, 2012
Susan Carlile of the Department of English returned to campus summer 2012 after a year in the United Kingdom as part of her National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) research fellowship to write a critical biography titled Charlotte Lennox: A Powerful Mind. “My hope is that this critical biography will show Lennox’s powerful mind as... [Read more]
