Category: Research
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Teresa Mangum Wins Award
Teresa Mangum, professor emeritus at the University of Iowa, was awarded the 2026 Francis Andrew March Award by the Associated Departments of English (ADE) in recognition of her significant contributions to literary studies and academic leadership.
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Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!
Oh, The Horror!”, a panel where they will talk about monsters, horror, and why they write stories that scare.
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Talking Tales of the Undead
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Santa Cruz Public Libraries Downtown Branch Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly J. Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires, ghouls, zombies and other undead monsters in literature, theater, and pop culture in this free…
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This spooky season, join UC Santa Cruz experts in exploring what scares us and why
As Halloween approaches, UC Santa Cruz faculty are undertaking scholarly investigations of zombies, digging up cultural histories of vampires, and delving deeply into the metaphysics of creepiness.
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Renée Fox Wins the 2025 Sonya Rudikoff Award
In April, the Universe’s own Renée Fox, Co-Director of the Dickens Project, Associate Professor in the UCSC Literature Department, and the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies, was awarded the Northeast Victorian Studies Association’s (NVSA) Sonya Rudikoff Award for her 2023 book, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish…
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Visiting the Dickens Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Caitlin Croughan reviews some literary history at the Victoria & Albert Museum, exploring original Dickens manuscripts, character paintings, and more.