As Wilkinson College’s journalism program enters its second year of a partnership with the Voice of OC, even more students are getting a taste of real-life journalism while reporting, writing and editing with Orange County’s nonprofit newsroom. Under the guidance of professional journalists, students post dispatches and stories about local government and its impact on
Sex panic. This is the phrase that Dr. Ian Barnard (English/LGBTQ Studies) uses to describe how contemporary liberal culture unintentionally uses sex panics to reinforce transphobic and homophobic tropes. In their new book, Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Barnard illuminates the ways that the public, media, and politicians produce, construct, and disseminate sex panics. “The
Congratulations to the four faculty opportunity award recipients from Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences! Chapman University’s Faculty Opportunity Fund is a competitive merit-based internal funding opportunity for faculty to apply for up to $15,000 to conduct research or creative activity. These projects are intended to support Chapman University faculty in the development
Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 16th! Chapman University is hosting its annual Pub(lishing) Crawl in the Center for American War Letters in Leatherby Libraries. No, we won’t be drinking our way from O’Hara’s to Chapman Crafted at this year’s pub crawl. Instead, the Pub(lishing) Crawl is a jam-packed event where successful writers talk with
Author and professor Alicia Kozameh returned from her latest trip to Europe. In England, at the University of Reading, she gave a keynote speech entitled El rol de la representación, el poder de la necesidad, y los desconcertantes colores de la vida (The Role of Representation, the Power of Necessity, and the Disconcerting Colors of
Wilkinson College of Humanities & So… In May 2014, Communication Major , Jeff Cooper (double minor in English and Sociology ) graduated from Chapman University and recently sent Communication Studies Professor, Nicholas Leighton, an email to tell him how he was doing. Check out what he had to say and how Chapman prepared him for
You are invited for a night of spoken word focused on intersections of identity with local artist, Matt Sedillo on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 7 p.m. on the student stage of Argyros Forum. Matt Sedillo is a two-time national slam poet, grand slam champion of the Damn Slam Los Angeles and the author of
Tabula Poetica is kicking off it’s Poetry Reading Series on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 with Maureen Alsop, author of the novel Mantic . Alsop’s talk, “The Flowering Self, Smaller, Frozen: Portals, Self-Portrayal” will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Wilkinson Chapel, Fish Interfaith Center, followed by a poetry reading at 7 p.m. in the
Aspiring fiction writers may be one step closer to their dreams as Chapman University launches a new free writing workshop taught by renowned novelist and short-story writer Richard Bausch, who joined the Chapman creative writing faculty this fall. Professor Richard Bausch will lead a creative writing workshop for select writers from the community.Open to anyone
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences was excited at the opportunity to showcase all Wilkinson departments and programs, and the faculty within those departments and programs, at the Staff Summit Resource Fair on Thursday, June 14 in Beckman Hall. Wilkinson displayed faculty published books, student and faculty research projects, ancient artifacts, Wilkinson Review (past