1965 | University of California, Irvine opened. |
1966 | The California Poetry Reading Circuit permanently headquartered at UCI, James B. Hall Dir. (December). |
Murray Krieger and Oakley Hall accepted positions. James B. Hall departed to UC Santa Cruz. | |
The UC Irvine Writing Center was established by Board of Regents, James B. Hall dir. (April). | |
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1968 | KBS Committee staged a rally on campus with 500 out of the 4,100 students participating. "KBS movement" was a student movement whose goal was to pressure the university to retain or rehire three instructors that had not completed their requirements to keep their positions. The assistant professors were George Kent (History), Donald Brannan (English) and Stephen Shapiro (English). |
1972 | Robert L. Montgomery, professor of English and Comparative Literature, was appointed acting Dean of the School of Humanities (October). |
1973 | Hazard Adams, Vice Chancellor--Academic Affairs, announced his resignation, effective July 1, 1974, to begin sabbatical leave and return to full-time teaching as professor of English in January 1975. |
1974 | Murray Krieger, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, was named one of nine University Professors by the Regents (April). |
Hazard Adams, Professor of English received Guggenheim Fellowship (May). | |
1975 | Hazard Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature received "Extraordinarius" award (April). Harold Toliver and Charles Wright, English and Comparative Literature, received Guggenheim Fellowships (April).UCI, the only university in the country offering a doctoral degree in critical theory, chosen as the location for the founding of the School for Criticism and Theory, under direction of Murray Krieger, University Professor of English, and Hazard Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature (May). A National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $245,000 was awarded to Krieger and Adams for the start of this school (August). |
1976 | Albert O. Wlecke, Associate Professor of English, was honored for teaching at UCI Alumni Association at the Lauds and Laurels banquet for excellence (May). |
1977 | Charles Wright, Professor of English and poet, was named as one of the 14 American writers to receive an award from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter (April). |
James McMichael, Professor of English, received a Guggenheim Fellowship.Bruce R. Hallet, a senior majoring in English, took office as president of the Associated Students. | |
1978 | A scholarship fund was established in memory of Howard S. Babb, Professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature (June). |
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship was awarded to Murray Krieger, University Professor of English. | |
1979 | Department hosted an eight-day festival honoring the writer George Sand (November). |
Robert Folkenflik, Associate Professor in English, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (April). | |
1982 | Major symposium on "Goethe's Narrative Fiction," attended by scholars from the United States, Canada and Germany (April). 12th annual Alumni Association Lauds and Laurels Banquet awarded Dr. Harold Toliver, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, the Distinguished Research Award; Dr. Murray Krieger, University Professor of English, received the 1982 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award (May). |
Dog Soldiers | |
1983 | Dr. Murray Krieger, University Professor of English was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (May). |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems | |
1984 | Mad Ludwig of Bavaria |
1985 | Myron Simon, professor of English, received a Fulbright grant. Novelist MacDonald Harris was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, the highest honor bestowed on UCI faculty by their colleagues. Harris is the pen name of Donald Heiney, professor of English and Comparative Literature. |
1986 | New master's degree program in English designed especially for secondary school teachers announced (November). |
Apaches | |
1987 | British detective novelist P. D. James was a visiting professor for three weeks (January). |
Glowstone | |
1988 | John Carlos Rowe, professor of English, was awarded the 1988-89 Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching (April). |
1991 | 21st Lauds and Laurels banquet awarded J. Hillis Miller, professor of English and Comparative Literature the Academic Senate's Distinguished Lectureship Award for research (April). |
Georgina Dodge, a senior in English won a 1991 Melon Fellowship in the Humanities (May). | |
Even Now | |
Miriam Burstein, a junior Campuswide Honors English major, received a $2,200 National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Award (June). | |
Prize-winning Australian novelist Thomas M. Kneally was appointed distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature and joined the faculty of the graduate Program in Writing (June). | |
1992 | U.S. News and World Report |
Saudale | |
Her Own Terms | |
1993 | Maxine Hong Kingston, author of best-selling novels, spoke as part of her appointment as a Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature (January). |
Alexander Gelley, Professor of Comparative Literature, became a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Gelley will study Walter Benjamin's position as critic (April). | |
Thomas Keneally, distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April). | |
1994 | John Carlos Rowe, director of UCI Critical Theory Institute and professor of English and Comparative Literature, was awarded a $106,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize a five-week summer institute in 1995 for high school, college and university teachers to focus on incorporating multicultural issues in teaching American literature (August). |
Pulitzer prize awarded to alumni Yusef Komunyakaa, MFA in English 1980, for poetry (April). | |
1995 | James McMichael, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, was awarded the $30,000 Whiting Writer's Award by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation (October). |
1996 | Independence Day |
Rey Chow, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, was winner of the prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize for her book on contemporary Chinese cinema (November). | |
Emma Who Saved My Life and Gospel | |
1999 | Peter Goldman, an advanced graduate student in English and Comparative Literature, was selected as the first recipient of the Michael and Stacy Koehn Research Assistantship in Critical Theory (July). |
2000 | Gabriele Schwab, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the School of Humanities, was honored with the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching. Schwab's presentation is titled "Imaginary Ethnographies: The Boundaries of the Human" (November). |
2001 | U.S. News and World Report |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. | |
J. Hillis Miller receives the UCI medal, honored for his international preeminence as a literary scholar, critic and theorist. Miller is also cited for his role in securing top national rankings for UCI's graduate programs in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature, and the Department of English (November). |
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