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Innovative Research and Excellence in Teaching

Our Work
Friday, December 13 at 12:30pm

Poetics in Refusal of Settler Life: Mahmoud Darwish and the Question of Palestine

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Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit

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Welcome to English at UCLA

Widely recognized as one of the leading departments in the nation, English at UCLA has long been known for its innovative research and excellence in teaching. Today, the English Department maintains its strong commitment to traditional areas of study, while also supporting groundbreaking research and teaching in new and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.

Our Work

My Body is Paper

Edited by Rafael Pérez-Torres

Environment and Narrative in Vietnam

Co-edited by Ursula Heise

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

Edited by Yogita Goyal

Blackouts

By Justin Torres

Commitment

By Mona Simpson

Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

Edited by Joseph Bristow

For Trapped Things

By Brian Kim Stefans

Justin Torres’ Work Anthologized

Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611

By Debora Shuger

Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica

By Jenny Sharpe

Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature

By Mitchum Huehls

Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment

By Joseph Bristow

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature

Edited by Christopher Looby

Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction

By Jonathan F.S. Post
Awards

Harryette Mullen named 2022 UCSC Humanities Division Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna

Search

By Michelle Huneven
Publications

Letters to America

By Fred D’Aguiar
Publications

Year of Plagues. A Memoir of 2020

By Fred D'Aguiar
Publications

Willa Cather’s Queer Economy

By Joseph Dimuro
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Among the Skyscrapers: Henry Blake Fuller’s Chicago Novels

By Joseph Dimuro
Publications

Letter of Recommendation for NYT Mag on Hot Cheetos and Growing up in LA

By Summer Kim Lee
Publications

Ali Behdad Explores Photographic Constructs

Awards

Barbara Fuchs Awarded Ñ Prize for Notable Work in Promoting Spanish Language and Culture

Publications

Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

By Barbara Fuchs
Publications

Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West

By Blake Allmendinger
Awards

Yogita Goyal’s Book, Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Receives Distinguished Prizes

Elizabeth DeLoughrey Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications

Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss

By Jenny Sharpe
Publications

Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance

Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton

Publications

Exhaust All Poisons

Reminiscences of poetry and the internet.

By Brian Stefans

Publications

The Fire Files

A personal narrative about living through the Woolsey fire and its aftermath in the Malibu canyons.

By Claire McEachern

Activity

City of God @ 25

UCLA English professors, Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres participate in panel to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Gil Cuadros' City of God. City of God is rooted in the lived experience of its Angeleno author and is acknowledged to be among the first literary works to document AIDS through the eyes of a poz queer Latinx writer and artist.

Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres

Activity

Navigating the Personal and the Literary

Carmen Maria Machado’s forthcoming memoir, In the Dream House, focuses on queer domestic violence and dissects cultural representations of physical abuse. Machado discusses navigating the personal and the literary with novelist and UCLA professor, Justin Torres.
Publications

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood.

By Yogita Goyal

Publications

Book from Professor Michael Rothberg: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject.

By Michael Rothberg

Publications

Professor Emeritus Frederick Burwick’s A History of Romantic Literature

Historical narrative offers introduction to romanticism by placing key figures in overall social context

By Frederick Burwick

Publications

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure by Robert Watson
UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

Professor Marissa López selected as one of six faculty members to receive the inaugural Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars.

UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

Professor Danny Snelson selected as 2019-20 UCLA Hellman Fellow for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats

UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion awards Professor Arvind Thomas a Faculty Career Development Award

Publications

Allegories of the Anthropocene

by Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Publications

Volpone

Revised Edition by Ben Jonson; Edited by Robert Watson
Recognizing Faculty Milestones

Recognizing Faculty Milestones

Lowell Gallagher

2019 UCLA commencement faculty speaker inspires students to “read us all into better arguments and better conversations.”

Faculty speaker, Professor Matthew Fisher, renews the value of a literary education Matthew Fisher
Publications

Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages

by Arvind Thomas
Awards

Marissa López, English Associate Professor, named one of first-ever Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow

Professor López's project is a collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles Public Library to bring Mexican America to life
Activity

Unexpected Itineraries: Holocaust Testimony beyond Borders

Professor Michael Rothberg / UCLA Faculty Center
Activity

Mark Gallagher brings Little Women exhibit to UCLA Library

Exhibit open through Thursday, March 28, 2019
Activity

Slaves to the Rhythm: Grace Jones, Disco and Black Feminist Aesthetics

Burke Lecture Series - Indiana University a lecture by Dr. Uri McMillan
Activity

Anthony Hecht: Worth the Weight

Inaugural Lecture for the Literary Arts Programs at the University of Rochester with Jonathan Post
Publications

The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England

The Consolation and Its Afterlives Edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver
Activity

UCLA partners with KCET for new digital series

Allison Carruth serves as executive producer for the new series "Food Futures" which explores current innovations and visions for ecological and equitable food systems.
Awards

Joseph Bristow wins the Distinguished Teacher Award for Senate Faculty

Awards

Michelle Huneven wins 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts

Awards

Allison Carruth receives $15,000 UCLA Arts Initiative Grant

Awards

Distinguished Research Professor H.A. Kelly receives Constantine Panunzio Award

Awards

David Wong Louie’s personal essay selected for “The Best American Essays 2018”

Awards

Karen Cunningham and Dana Cairns Watson receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Awards

Elizabeth DeLoughrey receives UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship & Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellowship

Awards

Eleanor Kaufman receives UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship & Guggenheim Fellowship

Activity

“Urban Ark Los Angeles” Documentary

Ursula K. Heise completed a new project that showcases innovative connections between the humanities and the environment at UCLA.  
Nineteenth-Century Literature Journal

Welcome

Nineteenth-Century Literature is a quarterly journal devoted to the study of all literary genres of the era. By virtue of the range and quality of its coverage, its longevity, and indeed its substantial subscription, NCL is justly regarded as the preeminent periodical in its field.
Publications

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

By Stacie Cassarino
Publications

Still Modernism

Photography, Literature, Film By Louise Hornby
Publications

The Book of Ephraim

By James Merrill, Edited by Stephen Yenser
Publications

Satan

A Biography By Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publications

Embodied Avatars

Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan
Publications

Civic Longing

The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship By Carrie Hyde
Publications

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture

Edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith
Publications

Literature and Food Studies

By Allison Carruth and Amy Tigner
Publications

Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood

Edited by Joseph Bristow
Publications

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Second Edition Edited by Claire McEachern
Publications

Blood Royal

A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris By Eric Jager
Publications

Urban Tumbleweed

Notes from a Tanka Diary By Harryette Mullen
Publications

Casebook

A Novel By Mona Simpson
Publications

The Poetics of Piracy

Emulating Spain in English Literature By Barbara Fuchs
Publications

The Official World

By Mark Seltzer
Publications

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder

By Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publications

The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature

Edited by Yogita Goyal
Publications

Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton

Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery By Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell
Publications

Making England Western

Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture By Saree Makdisi
Publications

The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies By Rachel C. Lee
Publications

A History of California Literature

Edited by Blake Allmendinger
Publications

Stone Fruit

Poems By Stephen Yenser
Publications

The Middle English Bible

A Reassessment By Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publications

Utopia, Limited

Romanticism and Adjustment By Anahid Nersessian
Publications

Sodomscapes

Hospitality in the Flesh By Lowell Gallagher
Awards

Uri McMillan Wins the Erroll Hill Award for his work “Embodied Avatars”

Publications

Imagining Extinction

The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species By Ursula K. Heise
Publications

After Critique

Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age By Mitchum Huehls
Activity

Play the LA River

Allison Carruth helps kick off the program, designed to bring people to the 51-mile waterway to relax and play.
Publications

Camera Orientalis

Reflections on Photography of the Middle East. By Ali Behdad

Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial

By Saree Makdisi

Michael Rothberg Awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications

Chinese American Literature without Borders

Gender, Genre, and Form By King-Kok Cheung
SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

For the second year in a row UCLA’s Department of English is thrilled to announce a one-week all-expenses paid literary tour of Dublin and environs! Primed by reading appropriate excerpts of various Dublin authors, we’ll explore the city of Dublin and surroundings.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Discover the contemporary capital and recover hidden traces of the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The program studies London as the key site in an often overlooked urban Romanticism, featuring the work of William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Keats, Hannah More, Mary Robinson, and a special focus on the art and poetry of William Blake.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Trace the steps of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence. Novels and stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Constance Fenimore Woolson are studied, along with the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s great translation of the Florentine poet Dante’s Inferno.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Experience Shakespeare’s plays as they were meant to be experienced, on the stage as well as the page, and in the company of his fellow dramatists, during a summer session spent in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, England. Students will be immersed in the study of multiple plays in performance, as mounted both on the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Globe Theater in Southwark, London.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Mexico City is one of the world’s greatest metropoles, a vibrant blend of ancient and modern, as well as a major economic, political, and artistic driver of the hemisphere. Experience it for yourself while studying a flexible program of your own design that can satisfy major, diversity, GE, and language requirements.

 

 

 

 

 
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