Department of English Commencement
Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Carmen Lamas
Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Carmen Lamas
Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez
Tea and Conversation: Sigrid Nunez
Some Favorite Writers: Mona Simpson
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
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”