For many of the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) students who will graduate May 15 and 16, being conferred a university degree will significantly help them to find a career, a calling, or even a future. For theatre arts major Audrey Edwards, the years she spent on stage at CSUDH as an actor and scholar has helped her find a voice. “When I was little I was super shy, super little and had no voice. But getting on stage helped me find my voice,” said Edwards, a Los Angeles resident who first began performing in middle school. “I wish I could have found the arts when I was younger, but I have it now and I want to use it to help inspire others.” Edwards likes dancing ... Read More
Art and Design
CSU Dominguez Hills to bestow honorary doctorate on actor, humanitarian Forest Whitaker
Academy Award-winning actor and renowned social activist Forest Whitaker will return to his hometown of Carson on May 16 to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and serve as a keynote speaker during the university's College of Arts and Humanities Commencement Ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. in the StubHub Center Tennis Stadium on campus and is one of five college-based commencements taking place May 15 and 16 in celebration of the approximately 4,000 students graduating from CSUDH. Forest Whitaker is the founder and CEO of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI), an international non-profit ... Read More
Poems
This is the text version of the poems featured in National Poetry Month: 3 CSUDH poets share insights, teaching and their writing. No time to Die by Lucilla Maclaren Spillane I thought I was dying and I knocked at Death's door. As I lay in a bar, like a rag on the floor, and I promised for sure, not to drink any more. "I've not called your number," said a voice in my head, or was it God saying “It's not time to be dead?” I should promise for sure, not to drink any more. And then the voice told me: "Now you've got to be strong, And go back through your life to where you first went wrong.” So I promised for sure, not to drink any more. I took my second chance and ... Read More
Book Signing, April 29: ‘Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin’
When Gilah Yelin Hirsch first read her mother's 70 diaries and discovered the extent of the physical and psychological abuse she had endured from infancy to the age of 16, rather than loathing her, she felt “love, empathy and compassion for her mother,” the celebrated Canadian author Shulamis Yelin. “I grew to admire her for all that she had accomplished despite the extremes of her mental illness and her very difficult life,” said Hirsch, professor of art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). “The greatest difficulty in reading the diaries was seeing the severity and depth of her suffering, and reading how although on a certain level I and others who were close to her ... Read More
Author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum gives 2015 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture
The California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of English welcomes novelist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum as the featured speaker for its 2015 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday, April 27, in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public. Bynum is the author of two novels, "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award, and "Madeleine Is Sleeping," winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Georgia Review, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and ... Read More
