Programa Velasco started with a Christmas wish by Professor Juan Velasco-Moreno. Sixteen years later, it's still helping empower families in El Salvador.
On Wednesday, May 24, a group of SCU English Department faculty members and students (and one Theater Department professor!) gathered together for the spring Writing Forward Reading Series event.
On Thursday, May 18, almost 100 faculty and staff attended the retirement party of esteemed English Department faculty members Marilyn Edelstein and Phyllis Brown, who are retiring after teaching at Santa Clara for 36 and 41 years, respectively.
Kai Harris's (Assistant Professor, Creative Writing) new novel What the Fireflies Knew was listed in Washington Post's 10 noteworthy books for February. There was also media coverage in Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Literary Hub, Associated Press, and The New York Times.
With COVID-19 shutting down in-person archival research, Amy Lueck and her students dig through digitized historical documents online with the goal of publishing their own digital anthology.
