Tag: Ben Olguín

Anthology of Latino speculative fiction co-edited by a UCSB scholar wins an American Book Award

By Jim Logan • UCSB Ben Olguín remembers the moment he discovered science fiction. He was a teenager, doing three weeks in jail for being, as he puts it, “a knucklehead.” Books get passed around inside and one of them was…

New faculty in UCSB’s English department bring vibrancy to Chicana/Chicano literature studies

By Jim Logan / UCSB UC Santa Barbara, as an official Hispanic-Serving Institution, has long been committed to the needs of its Latino students. Now, three new faculty members in the campus’s English department are taking that support to even higher levels.…