Ursula k le guin

Ursula K. Le Guin, October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018.

As an undergraduate, I started out majoring in Biological Anthropology, but a seminar in Comparative Literature during my second year, taught by Sal Allosso, made me switch. I discovered how I loved looking at literature (and, in turn, ourselves) through so many different lenses—theoretical, multi-cultural, interdisciplinary, historical. It was during that class that I first read […]

Ursula K Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin.

Image by Gorthian, via Wikimedia Commons 'Some of us are Norman Mailer,' said Ursula K.

By Neil Gaiman Ursula K. Le Guin in the 1970s. (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) I discovered Ursula with The Left Hand of Darkness and with the Earthsea trilogy, both when I was about eleven. The first of the books opened my head and made me view gender differently—not as something […]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore - Earthsea