Faculty Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Allegories of the Anthropocene
David Wong Louie Memorial Conference
Faculty Meeting
Live Oak, With Moss Book Talk
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
First Day of Classes
Department Open House
Department of English Commencement
Faculty Meeting
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
Happy Birthday, Walt! Whitmanic Merriment!
Whitmania: Whitmanic Explorations of Self & Community at Undergraduate Research Week
South LA Students Sound Out the Crowd at UCLA Salon 02
Spring Athenaeum
Departmental Honors Thesis Showcase
“Religious Revolution and the Rewriting of Cultural History” – Talk with James Simpson
8th Annual Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
Whitmania: First-ever west coast “Song of Myself” Marathon reading at UCLA Alumni Day
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
Faculty Meeting
Professional Writing Minor Launch Reception
Queer Studies Reading Group
Author Event in the ERR: Tea and Conversation with Richard Powers
“Reading Poetry” – Talk with Jerome McGann
Graduate Student Seminar with Jerome McGann
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
Faculty Meeting
‘Carnal Knowledge’: Queer Philology and the Piercings of Edward II – Talk with Jeffrey Masten
20th/21st Century Working Group
Finnegan’s Wake Reading Group
Faculty Town Hall Meeting
Cuneiform to Coding – Announcing the new Professional Writing Minor
20th/21st Century Reading Group
ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
18th Century Romantics Group
Prospective Graduate Student Welcome Week Reception
Americanist Research Colloquium
Life Beyond English with Audrey Kuo ‘08
Finnegans Wake Reading Group
Nineteenth Century Working Group
Social Justice Pedagogy Working Group
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”