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How to Tell the Story of a City

Thursday, October 29 at 5:30 pm

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The Phoenix of GazaXR – Opening Night at UCLA

November 2 at 5:30 pm

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On Adrian Stokes: Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis

November 6 – November 7

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Lessons for a Warming Country: Climate Politics & Environmental Policy After the Midterms

Monday, November 9 at 5:30pm

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Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Sunday, November 15 at 3:00pm

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Americanist Research Colloquium, with Aliya Ram

Thursday, November 19 at 4:00pm

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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.

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  • On Adrian Stokes: Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us for a seminar on the writing of the British art critic Adrian Stokes (1902-1972). Stokes is gaining renewed attention as an important figure in modernist writing, who…

  • On Adrian Stokes: Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us for a seminar on the writing of the British art critic Adrian Stokes (1902-1972). Stokes is gaining renewed attention as an important figure in modernist writing, who…

  • Cecilia Vicuña in Conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey

    MOCA Grand Avenue 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

    Join artist Cecilia Vicuña in conversation with Elizabeth DeLoughrey on the occasion of Vicuña’s exhibition The Dream of Water: Quipu of Encounters Maricunga. Vicuña’s project at MOCA focuses on the…

  • Americanist Research Colloquium, with Aliya Ram

    Kaplan Hall 278 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Join the UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) for a discussion of Aliya Ram’s paper, “Abortion, Sterility, Hysterectomy: Interrupted Reproduction and the Beginnings of Biography.” Discussion of the pre-circulated paper will…

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Summer Travel Study

Dublin, Ireland: In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis

Using the city of Dublin as your locus, students in this course will read a variety of major works written by Dublin writers. A grounding in Dublin geography, urban study, and history will prepare students to consider various dimensions of Irish experience in the twentieth-century, from its status as a country under British rule through its fight for independence, and ultimate autonomy.

London, England: Romanticism and the Age of Revolution

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.

Florence, Italy: American Writers and Artists Abroad

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.