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: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Where: Powell Library Courtyard
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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: Monday, April 30, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Humanities 193
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Graduate students and interested faculty are invited to a colloquium on the core topics of form and interdisciplinarity, led by Anahid Nersessian (UCLA) and Jonathan Kramnick (Yale).  Readings for the meeting will be sent via email.

When: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:00pm
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Humanities Building
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You are cordially invited to drop by the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room on Tuesday, April 24th at 6pm for light refreshments and a discussion with author Alice McDermott.  

When: Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:00 pm
Where: Faculty Common Room, 193 Humanities Building
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Please join us for a talk to be given by Sianne Ngai on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4 PM in Humanities 193, sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary.  Please see the above flyer for more information.

When: Thursday, April 19, 2018 7:30pm
Where: Hammer Museum – 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt, translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star, and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern. The recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, residency fellowships from Le Chateau de Lavigny and VCCA, and a former Fulbright Scholar, she teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University low-residency MFA Program.

When: Sunday, April 15, 2018 7:30pm
Where: Beyond Baroque, 681 N. Venice, Venice CA
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Poet, novelist, essayist and UCLA Creative Writing Program Director Fred D’Aguiar is joined by award-winning poet, translator and UCLA Visiting Writer Sholeh Wolpé for a reading and discussion.

When: Thursday, April 5, 2018 7:30pm
Where: Hammer Museum – 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Ange Mlinko has written five books of poems, the most recent of which is Distant Mandate (FSG, 2017).  Her volume Starred Wire was a National Poetry Series selection, and Shoulder Season was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award.  A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism, she has served as the poetry editor for The Nation and teaches at the University of Florida.

When: March 28 – 31  2018
Where: Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles
The Shakespeare Association’s 46th Annual Meeting takes place in Los Angeles, California, between 28 and 31 March 2018. Full information about the meeting is available in the current Bulletin.

2017-2018 Packer Series
When: Tuesday, March 13 & Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:00pm
Where: Faculty Common Room 193, Humanities Building
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Wai Chee Dimock is this year’s guest speaker. On March 13th she will speak on “Endangered Humanities and Endangered Planet: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction,” and on March 15th she will speak on “Weak Environmentalism:  Reading Bishop and Blake Today.”