We 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…
Read MoreProfessor Hannah Čulík-Baird has a new published article “The Image of the Slave in Cicero’s Catilinarians.” Rhetorica 41.4, pp385-411. Abstract: “Are we not condemned to live in our exposure to…
Read MoreProfessor Kelly Nguyen will be giving a lecture entitled “Lý Thu Hô’s Printemps Inachevé: Classical Traditions and Feminist Epistemologies” at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education in Vietnam on January…
Read MoreSince 2018, Robert Gurval, associate professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics, has taught a course and led walking tours on UCLA’s early history and architecture. As we celebrate the…
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