Posted on Might 11, 2022
| 5:56 p.m.
UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) will add senior author/publicist Charles Donelan to its workforce beginning Might 16. A&L produces greater than 100 public occasions yearly with world-renowned artists and audio system, in addition to an array of complementary neighborhood outreach and humanities schooling actions.
On this new function, Donelan will apply his expertise with arts and leisure writing and media relations to proceed to raise A&L’s profile domestically and nationally.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Charles Donelan to the Arts & Lectures workforce,” stated Celesta M. Billeci, Miller McCune government director. “As a journalist, Charles has been one in every of our strongest allies. His familiarity with our program and the native arts scene is unparalleled, and we look ahead to working with him extra intently than ever to shine a lightweight on our occasions and influence in the neighborhood,”
Donelan has been writing about theater, music, dance, schooling, and the visible arts in Santa Barbara since 2002. He has served as the manager arts editor on the Santa Barbara Unbiased since 2004. From 2017-20, he created weekly segments on arts and leisure occasions in Santa Barbara for KCRW radio. In 2021 he was a finalist for the Andy Warhol Basis Arts Writers grant.
“I need to say how grateful I’m to Charles for all his years of exceptional work. He has elevated the Unbiased’s Arts protection into the place it holds at the moment. It has been a pleasure and honor to work with him, and I look ahead to persevering with our relationship in its new kind,” stated Marianne Partridge, Santa Barbara Unbiased editor in chief.
As an educator, Donelan taught at Laguna Blanca Faculty from 2004-21 and the UCSB Writing Program from 2001-04. He holds levels from Yale (B.A.) and Columbia (Ph.D., english and comparative literature). He revealed the e book “Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Lord Byron’s Don Juan: A Marketable Vice” (Macmillan/St. Martins) in 2000.
