Professor (and Chair) Alex Purves is honored to be delivering the Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria next week. She will give three lectures on Homer: (1) “The Iliad…
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Kelly Nguyen, whose book Critical Classicality in Vietnam and the Diaspora, has just been published by Oxford University Press
Read MoreThe Department is proud to announce the promotion of Lydia Spielberg to the role of Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Spielberg joined the department in 2018 and currently serves as the…
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that our outgoing department chair, Distinguished Professor David Blank, will be delivering the keynote address at Humanities Commencement on June 13 in Royce Hall. For…
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On October 21, at a ceremony hosted by the Emeriti Faculty Association at their fall dinner, Robert Gurval was presented with UCLA’s Carole E. Goldberg Award, which recognizes “extraordinary service…
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Sean Brenner | May 12, 2025 Robert Gurval retired from active teaching in 2019, intending to teach in China and travel more. When the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench into those…
Read MoreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES, CA The Department of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been authorized to make an appointment to a full-time…
Read MoreHearty congratulations to Prof. Francesca Martelli on the publication of her new book, *Souvenirs of Cicero: Shaping Memory in the Epistulae ad Familiares*!!! The book is now available here.
Read MoreSpring 2024 Class Photo (not all students present in the photograph) In Spring 2024, Prof. Kelly Nguyen designed and taught the first course ever to focus specifically on Asian and Asian…
Read MoreProf. Sander Goldberg has a new essay posted on the Classics For All website entitled “Confessions of a Reluctant Philologist” You can find it here. He will also be heading…
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