Emeritus Excellence: A Celebration of Continued Research
Join the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections for an evening featuring the continued research of four distinguished faculty emeriti — Charles Bazerman, Mario T. García, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Paul Hansma. This event is presented in partnership with the UCSB Emeriti Association.
RSVP here. Please reach out to Jessica Law at jessicamlaw@ucsb.edu with any questions.
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About the Speakers
Charles Bazerman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Education
Charles Bazerman (Ph.D, Brandeis, 1971; Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidades Nacionales de Cordoba, Entre Ríos, Río Cuarto, y Villa María), is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara.
He is founder and former Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has been a visiting professor in Portugal, Denmark, the Czech Republic, France, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nepal, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S. His books include Unfinished Business (2024), How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became (2024), A Rhetoric of Literate Action (2013), A Theory of Literate Action (2013), The Languages of Edison's Light (2002), Shaping Written Knowledge (1988), The Informed Writer (1981), The Handbook of Research on Writing (2007), What Writing Does and How It Does It (2003), and Lifespan Development of Writing Abilities (2018).
Mario T. García, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Department of History
Mario T. García is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies and History at UC Santa Barbara. A native of El Paso, Texas, he earned his B.A. and M.A. in History from the University of Texas at El Paso and his Ph.D. from UC San Diego.
A Guggenheim Fellow, García has authored over twenty books on Chicano history, including Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (1981), Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice (2012), and The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement (2015). His latest book, Father Luis Olivares: Faith, Politics, and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles (2018), examines faith and activism. García has received numerous accolades, including the 2016 Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award for linking oral history to social justice. Retired after 47 years at UCSB, he is currently completing a testimonio of artist Rupert García.
Paul Hansma, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Paul Hansma, PhD, is an emeritus physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a researcher in the Neuroscience Research Institute. His inventions include Atomic Force Microscopes that function with samples in air or fluid.
They have been commercialized by Digital Instruments (now Bruker) and Asylum Research (now part of Oxford Instruments), the Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope, and Bone Diagnostic Instruments including the Osteoprobe® commercialized by Active Life Scientific. His current interest is in making and testing gadgets and systems using gadgets to help people overcome chronic pain. His group has conducted 7 chronic pain recovery studies here at UCSB. Almost all people had reduced chronic pain, some had little or no pain after a one month study.
Suzanne Jill Levine, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
A Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Levine’s books include The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991) and Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2000).
A poet as well as noted translator and influential scholar of the Latin American Boom, her literary and academic career began in the early 1970s. Levine has brought to English readers some of the most important literary works, fiction and poetry, by such noteworthy authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Manuel Puig, Cristina Rivera Garza and many others. Her awards include grants from the NEA and NEH, the first PEN USA West Prize for Literary Translation (1989), the PEN American Center Career Achievement award (1996), and a Rockefeller Residency Fellowship in Italy. She has taught in Europe and the Americas. Recently, she won the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for lifetime achievement in translation. Her memoir, Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir, will be published by Bloomsbury in June 2025.
