March 4th, 2013
Shira Tarrant, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, appeared on KPCC radio’s AirTalk on January 16, 2013. She discussed Lena Dunham, gender, and body image in the segment “Is It Brave, Even Beneficial, for Lena Dunham to Be Nude on HBO’s ‘Girls?’” Click here to listen.
Tarrant is the author of several books including Men and... [Read more]
March 4th, 2013
The Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law Tournament was held in February 2013.
Brianna Wilbur (2nd) (POSC senior), Ashley Hall (6th) (POSC junior), Ruben Frausto (7th) (POSC junior), Kyle Maury (8th) (POSC and ECON senior), and Asmita Deswal (9th) (POSC and PHIL junior) won best orator awards at the SMU School of Law Tournament.
David Casarrubias (POSC junior) and Deswal were... [Read more]
February 28th, 2013
Fifteen of the 34 students who participated in CSULB’s 24th-Annual Student Research Competition on Friday, February 22, 2013, are from the College of Liberal Arts. The following eight CLA students won awards:
Business, Economics, and Public Administration Category
First Place – Neda Jahedmotlagh, Gr., Economics
Health, Nutrition, and Clinical Sciences Category
First Place – Tory Wall, Sr., Psychology
Humanities and Letters... [Read more]
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]
