Department of English Commencement
Book Discussion & Celebration: David Russell’s Marion Milner: On Creativity
Some Favorite Writers: James Lasdun
Tea and Conversation: James Lasdun
Book Discussion & Celebration: Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow
2025 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
Medieval Texts Reading Group
EHRG Coffee Hour with Allison Carruth
LENS Book Talk with Allison Carruth
Stephen Witt Book Talk – The Thinking Machine
Retirement Party in Honor of Jenny Sharpe
The No-Body Problem
Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write
The No-Body Problem
Ussama Makdisi – Gaza, Genocide, and the Palestine Exception
Vivian Huang Public Talk: “On Surface Relations”
Just Culture x Connecting Art and Law for Liberation
Book Talk & Signing – The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora
tagged ‘Singapore’: (Dis)embodied Desires and Digital Witchcraft
Writing Programs Spring Faculty Reading
California Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies
Hammer Poetry Series: Rosanna Warren
Smart Moves: From Ph.D. to First-Gen Advocacy with La’Tonya Rease Miles
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Dublin
Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence
Some Favorite Writers: Adam Phillips
Extractive Mediation and Epistemologies of the Deep
Hammer Poetry Series: Armen Davoudian
Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza
Poetics in Refusal of Settler Life: Mahmoud Darwish and the Question of Palestine
African American Literature at UCLA: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Richard Yarborough
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
Benedit a contrapelo/Benedit Against the Grain
After-Hours Tour: Claire McEachern on Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking, 1500 to Now
Hammer Poetry Series: Forrest Gander
American Literary History Now
American Literary History Now
Roof Books Launch Reading
Alexis Pauline Gumbs Book Talk
Out of Place: A Marathon Reading
The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
UCLA Library Presents Maya Angelou’s Sister, Sister
Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State
English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
Oscar Wilde, Sexuality, and the State
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
For the Unnamed: On the Poetics of Afro-Mexican Solidarity
Retirement Party in Honor of Janel Munguia
Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng
Tea and Conversation: Fae Myenne Ng
An Evening with Dan Taulapapa McMullin
Poetry Workshop with Stacie Cassarino
Poetry Reading Featuring Stacie Cassarino
Hammer Poetry Series: V. Penelope Pelizzon
Canceled: Grand Theft Eco Screening: The iBear in the River
Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss
Tea and Conversation: Adam Moss
Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Diana Khoi Nguyen
Canceled: California Before America: Doing Without Dreams and Destinies
How Soviet Prison Subculture Shapes the Russian Political Landscape
The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Jessica Gorter
Material Poetics of Post-Digital Poetry w/ Holly Melgard
The “General Library,” or, Minority Piracy for Survival
On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore
XR for Poetics & Play: A Pedagogical Inventory w/ Danny Snelson
SLAM – Restoration premiere with director Marc Levin & poets Beau Sia and Saul Williams
For a Resilient US Theater, Post-Pandemic: A Panel Featuring Barbara Fuchs
The Uses of Hatred: A Symposium
Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life
One Million Experiments
Tea and Conversation: Kate Bolton Bonnici
Poetry Writing Workshop with Randy James
Poetry Reading Featuring Randy James
Winter Athenaeum
Hammer Poetry Series: Boris Dralyuk
Poetry Reading and Discussion of Harryette Mullen’s Open Leaves (2023), with Ursula K. Heise
Lecture by Joe Bristow: The Final Hours of Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death”
Instruments for Digital Storytelling Featuring Erik Loyer
Seminar Featuring Professor Russ Castronovo from UW-Madison
Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber
Tea and Conversation: Joan Silber
Segue Reading Series Featuring Brian Kim Stefans
Hammer Poetry Series: Monica Youn
Some Favorite Writers: Justin Torres
Impairment and Disability in Early Medieval England
Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
Lighght Reading: Thinking through Concrete Poetry
Canceled Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence
Fall 2023 Research Seminar Public Lecture – Professor Craig Muldrew (Cambridge, UK)
Info Session: Summer Travel Study in London
Book Discussion & Celebration: Justin Torres – Blackouts
Jillian + Mariko Tamaki Book Talk: Roaming
The Paranoid Chronotope, or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Conspiracies
Pacific Islander Eco-Poetics
Fall 2023 Research Seminar Public Lecture – Professor Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University)
Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit
2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
Pre-Hooding Reception
Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
How to Queer the World: Queer Worldbuilding in Video Games and Beyond
The Americas Archive: A Conversation
Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Textbooks and US American Literature
Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez
Tea and Conversation: Sigrid Nunez
Book Discussion & Celebration: Mona Simpson’s Commitment
Some Favorite Writers: Mona Simpson
Queer Victorian Histories
ERR Author Series: Tara Ison
Mihaela Mihai Lecture: Representing Environmental Grief
Trans of Color Approaches to Trans* Literature
Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project
Some Favorite Writers: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Tea and Conversation: Manuel Muñoz and Alejandro Varela
Beyond Leaning In with Melanie Ho
Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception
Hammer Poetry Series: Vijay Seshadri
Anti-Muslim Racism, Palestine, and White Supremacy
Professor Jennifer Smith Book Launch
Hammer Poetry Series: Robert Pinsky
Some Favorite Writers: Alice Elliott Dark
Tea and Conversation: Alice Elliott Dark
Skye Papers Panoptic: An Audio Visual Anti-Lecture
CANCELED: ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
POSTPONED to Jan. 12: Skye Papers Panoptic: An Audio Visual Anti-Lecture
Hammer Poetry Series: Ange Mlinko
CANCELED: The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Environmental Consequences of Colonialism
Poetry and Expanded Media Panel at PAMLA
Junior Faculty Series: Kadji Amin
Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change
Readings From The Promised Land & High Desert
Hammer Poetry Series: Harryette Mullen
Kanner Forum: Matthew Vernon
Professor A.W. Strouse Book Launch
Last Day of Classes
A Reading Featuring Michelle Huneven
Graduating Student Poets Reading
A Reading Featuring Claire Stanford
2022 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
Some Favorite Writers: Geoff Dyer
Tea and Conversation: Geoff Dyer
Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Yopie Prins
Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Yopie Prins
A Comedy of the Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Fictions of Modern Property
Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton’s Book Launch
CANCELED: Vijay Seshadri & Danielle Blau: Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize at Hammer Museum
Some Favorite Writers: Danielle Evans
Tea and Conversation: Danielle Evans
Tea and Conversation: Elaine Kahn
Kanner Forum: Mary Pat Brady
First Day of Classes
Last Day of Classes
Kanner Lecture Series: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
First Day of Classes
Last Day of Classes
Kanner Lecture Series: Saree Makdisi in conversation with Bruce Robbins
First Day of Classes
Graduating and Award-Winning Student Poets Reading
Cancelled: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010) – Poetry Event Hosted by Danny Snelson and Harris Feinsod
The Politics of Fabulation
English Reading Room Writers Series: When the Virus Came Calling: COVID-19 Strikes America
The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation – Book Interview and Discussion with Christopher Zyda
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. A Book Talk
“Fictional Flesh and the Technology of Writing: Prosopopoeial Experiments in the Twelfth Century”
Awards Ceremony for English & Writing Programs
Department Honors Showcase
Kanner Lecture: Toril Moi
CANCELLED “After English” A look at professional life with an English Degree
POSTPONED Kanner Lecture: Julie Orlemanski
POSTPONED: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
POSTPONED: Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlifes of Slavery. A Book Talk
Re-Charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. A Book Talk
Kanner Lecture Series: Hazel Carby
New Directions in Postcolonial Studies: Literary Genealogies and Material Culture
Poetry at the Hammer
Tea and Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid
How to talk about Atmosphere
CANCELLED Winter 2020 Athenaeum
The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series
“After English” A look into professional life with an English degree
Cultural Evolution & Its Discontents: A Book Talk
Poetry at the Hammer
Author Event in the ERR: Tea & Conversation with Tobias Wolff
Hydrophilic Archives: Early Handmade Paper in Unstable Environments
William Caxton’s Multilingualism: The Claims of French and Dutch, English and Kentish
Winter Quarter: First Day of Classes
Campus Closure: Happy Holidays!
A Reading by Student Authors
Reading Poetry at the Hammer
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Tea and Conversation with Author Ben Learner
David Wong Louie Memorial Conference
Sex & Sentiment: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America
Poet and Professor Haryette Mullen receives the 2019 George Drury Smith Award
Reading Poetry at the Hammer
“The Play’s the Thing: Reading Race in Hamlet.”
Live Oak, With Moss Book Talk
“Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses: Cultivating Cosmic Perception.”
First Day of Classes
Department Open House
Student Reading in the ERR
Honors and Awards Reception
Daughters of Whitman: Womxn literary and performing artists explore Whitman’s legacy
Ecos del Gran Viejo: Latin American Poets Sing Walt Whitman
South LA Students Sound Out the Crowd at UCLA Salon 02
“Religious Revolution and the Rewriting of Cultural History” – Talk with James Simpson
A workshop with Lauren Berlant
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Nick Laird
Westwind Poetry and UCLAPoem: Coalition Poetry Reading
“Arts of Agitation” – Talk with Mel Chen
Southland Conference Day 2
Southland Conference Day 1
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with David Lehman
2019 Marathon Reading
Annette Gilbert on “Poor Media” Print-on-Demand as Subversive Publishing Practice
Professional Writing Minor Information Session #2
Life Beyond English with Liska Jacobs ‘08 and Katie Neipris ‘14
Professional Writing Minor Launch Reception
Author Event in the ERR: Tea and Conversation with Richard Powers
Workshop with Gavin Scott
“American Exceptionalism and the American Condition” – Talk with Jerome McGann
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with David Baker (and jazz guitarist Gregory Uhlmann)
Professional Writing Minor Information Session #1
‘Carnal Knowledge’: Queer Philology and the Piercings of Edward II – Talk with Jeffrey Masten
Cuneiform to Coding – Announcing the new Professional Writing Minor
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
Life Beyond English with Audrey Kuo ‘08
Winter Athenaeum 2019
Restoring the Humanities, Re-storying the Planet: A Manifesto for the late Anthropocene
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Susan Wheeler
“Publishing Literature in the Humanities”
The Great Smoke: The Fog of Modernity in 1950s London
Creative Writing Workshop with Angela Flournoy
Tennis in Nablus, Corpses in Baghdad: Colonial Trauma in the Modern Arab City
“Making Much of Racial Mixing: Reading Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus alongside the American Multicultural Movement”
Join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy
Westwind Open Mic Night in the ERR
American Writers and Artists in Florence: Summer 2019 Travel Study Info Session
Creative Writing Student Reading in the ERR
Westwind’s Fall Quarter Reading with Juliana Wang
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Mary Ruefle
Author Reading with Zinzi Clemmons
#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies Conference
“What Historical Narratives Offer Us” – Talk with Raúl Coronado
Life Beyond English with Armen Babasoloukian ‘13
Shakespeare’s Plays, Refugees’ Stories – A Visit by Jessica Bauman
Some Favorite Writers: Emily Wilson
A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson
Department of English Open House
LA Escena Theater Festival Coming Soon!
English Reading Room Writers Series – A Reading with Student Authors
2018 Spring Athenaeum
A Reading of the Favorite Poem Project
Lecture by Mark McGurl (Stanford University)
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Jennifer Moxley
“English Exercises” – Talk with Jeff Dolven
Grace M. Hunt Travel Award Talk with Kim Hedlin
UCLA English Marathon Reading of “Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”
The Crescent Moon Symposium
Lecture with Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Form and Interdisciplinarity Colloquium
Tea and Conversation with Alice McDermott
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Mihaela Moscaliuc & Michael Waters
Talk with Sianne Ngai – “The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form”
Poetry Reading with Fred D’Aguiar & Sholeh Wolpé
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Ange Mlinko
Shakespeare Association Annual Meeting
“Endangered Humanities and Endangered Planet” – Talk with Wai Chee Dimock
English Reading Room Writers Series – A Reading with Student Authors
Tea and Conversation with Mary Gaitskill
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Rosanna Warren
“English Now!” – Talk with Anna Brickhouse
Lecture with Chanita Goodblatt
Major Mysteries Solved! – English & American Lit Undergrad Info Session
Tea and Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hammer Museum Poetry Reading with Srikanth Reddy
ACES 2017 – Academic Conference for English Students
A Secret Sisterhood – The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
Friends of English Southland Conference: “Adaptations”
Jodi Melamed, Marquette University. “Dispossession by Proceduralism”
Namwali Serpell, University of California, Berkeley. “How to Read Faces”
Geraldine Heng, University of Texas, Austin. “Reading the World in Deep Time”