When: Sunday, June 17, 2018 4:00pm
Where: UCLA Court of Sciences
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The departmental event is a smaller, more personal ceremony for our graduates and their families. You will be able to celebrate your accomplishment with your fellow classmates and the English department’s faculty. Around 300 English and American Literature & Culture majors participated last year. Participating students do not need a ticket but must confirm that they are attending. Each participating student may order (4) free guest tickets and up to (4) additional tickets for $12.00 each. There will be a wait list for additional ticket orders.

When: Monday, June 4, 2018 7:00pm
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Humanities Building
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Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on Monday, June 4th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students enrolled in English 137 this session.

When: Thursday, May 24, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Faculty Common Room, 193 Humanities Building
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We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Spring Athenaeum will be held Thursday, May 24 from 4–6pm. The event will be in Humanities 193 with a reception to follow. The Spring Athenaeum will feature work by Alexandra Verini and Professor Danny Snelson with Professor Brian Kim Stefans serving as the respondent.  Hope to see you there!

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 7:00pm
Where: UCLA, Kerckhoff Hall, Charles E. Young Grand Salon
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Come see members of the Los Angeles community read their favorite poems!  Since its founding 20 years ago by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the U.S., the  Favorite Poem Project has presented programs that feature people from many walks of life reading and commenting on poems meaningful to them. The Project has also produced the video series at www.favoritepoem.org as shown on the PBS NewsHour. 

When: Monday, May 21, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Faculty Common Room, 193 Humanities Building
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Mark McGurl’s scholarly work centers on the relation of literature to social, educational and other institutions from the late 19th century to the present.  He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard), which was the recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for 2011.

When: Thursday, May 17, 2018 7:30pm
Where: Hammer Museum – 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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California native Jennifer Moxley’s most recent collection of poems Druthers (Flood 2018) “elegantly characterizes poetry as a vehicle for immortality” (Publishers Weekly).  Her book The Open Secret (Flood 2014) was awarded the 2015 William Carlos Williams award, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts award. Moxley is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine.

2017-2018 Kanner Series
When: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Faculty Common Room, 193 Humanities Building
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Jeff Dolven is Professor of English at Princeton University and teaches poetry and poetics, especially of the English Renaissance.  He is the author of three books of criticism, Scenes of Instruction (Chicago, 2007), Senses of Style (Chicago, 2017), and the admittedly hasty Take Care (Cabinet, 2017), as well as essays on a variety of subjects, including Renaissance metrics, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare’s reading, Fairfield Porter, and player pianos.

When: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Faculty Common Room, 193 Humanities Building
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Please join us on Wednesday, May 9th at 4pm in Room 193 Humanities Building for a talk and reception with Kim Hedlin, a recipient of the Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research.

When: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Where: Powell Library Courtyard
Event Photos: goo.gl/3ofdkH
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You’re invited to the 2018 Marathon Reading, presented by the UCLA English department and Friends of English! For a full day, UCLA students and faculty will team up with distinguished guests to read both novels, relay-style, for an audience. Discussions, performances, and other fun breaks will be planned throughout the day. This fantastic event will bring together people across the UCLA campus and wider Los Angeles area to celebrate literature and enhance UCLA’s presence in the community. 

When: Friday, May 4, 2018 9:00-5:00pm
Where: UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
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The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and their literary communities.  The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four were members of the Crescent Moon Society 新月社, established by Xu Zhimo and Hu Shi and designed as a counterpart of the Bloomsbury Group of England.