2018-2019 Kanner Series
When: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). Educated at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge.

2018-2019 Kanner Series
When: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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Yopie Prins is Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Victorian Sappho (Princeton, 1999) and Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy (Princeton, 2017), and co-editor of The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology (Johns Hopkins, 2014) and Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Feminist Critics (Cornell, 1997). She is currently completing a book entitled Voice Inverse: Meter and Music in Victorian Poetry.

2018-2019 Packer Series
When: Tuesday, April 16 & Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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Jerome McGann from the University of Virginia will be the Barbara L Packer guest this year.  On April 16th he will speak on “American Exceptionalism and the American Condition,” and on April 18th he will speak on “A Sacred American Text: Fact, Truth, and Method.”

2018-2019 Kanner Series
When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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Jeffrey Masten has written influentially on the importance of sexuality-studies methods for reading early modern literature and culture.  His books include Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge, 1997) and Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time (Penn, 2016, forthcoming in paperback), and his articles include writing about textual editing, attribution methods, book history, and early women’s writing. 

When: Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:30pm
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall
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Please join us for a reading with author Zinzi Clemmons, co-founder of the literary journal Apogee and current Associate Editor at the Believer and a Contributing Editor to Literary Hub.

When: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:30am-5:30pm
Where: 306 Royce Hall
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Keynote speaker: Elaine Showalter (Emeritus Professor of English, Princeton University)
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Free Admission. Please RSVP here: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/

2018-2019 Kanner Series
When: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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Raúl Coronado is a literary and intellectual historian. He’s an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, and is the author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture (Harvard 2013), winner of the MLA Best First Book Prize, the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies, and five other awards.

When: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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UCLA’s Department of English is excited to introduce a year-long series specifically designed for English and American Literature and Culture majors! Life Beyond English offers current students the chance to engage in discussions with recent department graduates from a variety of fields. Join us as our alumni share their lived experiences and answer your questions about building a life and career after graduation.

When: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:30pm
Where: Hammer Museum: 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, 90024
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In her stunning new translation of The Odyssey—the first-ever English translation by a woman—renowned classics scholar Emily Wilson brings a fresh perspective to Homer’s masterpiece while still conveying the humanity and heroic power of the original Greek.

When: October 23 – 24, 2018
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
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Shakespeare’s Plays, Refugees’ Stories Jessica Bauman, director of Arden / Everywhere | UCLA | Oct. 23-24, 2018
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Please see below for workshop details.  All event RSVPs should be sent to Kim Hedlin at khedlin@ucla.edu