Department of English Commencement
2023 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
Pre-Hooding Reception
Year-End Reception
Spring Athenaeum
Creative Writing Party Featuring Author in Residence Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Executive Committee Meeting
English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
Department of English Honors Showcase
ARC: Kathleen Donegan (UC Berkeley)
2023 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
How to Queer the World: Queer Worldbuilding in Video Games and Beyond
Elemental Readings I: Air
Elemental Readings I: Air
The Americas Archive: A Conversation
Graduate Student Lunch with Carmen E. Lamas
Nineteenth-Century Spanish-Language Textbooks and US American Literature
Faculty Meeting
Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez
Tea and Conversation: Sigrid Nunez
A Talk and Welcome Reception Featuring David Russell
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
ARC: Ajay Batra (USC)
Book Discussion & Celebration: Mona Simpson’s Commitment
Some Favorite Writers: Mona Simpson
Queer Victorian Histories
ERR Author Series: Tara Ison
Seminar: Architecture, Political Violence, and Collective Memory
Mini Conference with Mihaela Mihai & Graduate Students
20/21 Reading Group: Contingency and Form
ERR Committee Meeting
Creative Writing Committee Meeting
ARC: Caleb Smith (Yale)
Mihaela Mihai Lecture: Representing Environmental Grief
Trans of Color Approaches to Trans* Literature
Faculty Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Reading Group Session: Mihaela Mihai
Self-Care and Pleasure Activism: Research, Theory and Praxis
Articulating and Enacting Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
ARC: Joseph Dimuro (UCLA)
Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception
Some Favorite Writers: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Tea and Conversation: Manuel Muñoz and Alejandro Varela
Faculty Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
ARC: Will Pruitt (UC President’s Postdoc)
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
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
ARC: Jené Pledger
Hammer Poetry Series: Robert Pinsky
Some Favorite Writers: Alice Elliott Dark
Tea and Conversation: Alice Elliott Dark
ERR Committee Meeting
Creative Writing Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Skye Papers Panoptic: An Audio Visual Anti-Lecture
Faculty Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
POSTPONED Winter Reception
Executive Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
CANCELED: ERR Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors
POSTPONED to Jan. 12: Skye Papers Panoptic: An Audio Visual Anti-Lecture
Faculty Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
ARC: Raul Coronado (UC Berkeley)
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
Junior Faculty Series: Kadji Amin
Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change
Graduate Committee Meeting
Readings From The Promised Land & High Desert
Faculty Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
ARC: Summer Kim Lee (UCLA)
Hammer Poetry Series: Harryette Mullen
Kanner Forum: Matthew Vernon
Faculty Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
ERR Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Creative Writing Committee Meeting
Fall Reception
Info Session: Florence Summer Travel Study with Professor Christopher Looby
ERR Open House
Humanities Welcome
Info Session: Departmental Honors
Info Session: Creative Writing
Info Session: Professional Writing
Meet the Chair + Summer Travel Study
ERR Open House
Faculty Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Professor A.W. Strouse Book Launch
Last Day of Classes
Faculty Meeting
A Reading Featuring Michelle Huneven
Graduating Student Poets Reading
English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
Department of English Honors Showcase
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
Executive Committee Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
ERR Table Plaque Dedication Ceremony Honoring Jeanette Gilkison
Ulysses Book Club
ARC: Cristobal Silva
A Comedy of the Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Fictions of Modern Property
Digital Media Lab Open House
Faculty Meeting
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
Ulysses Book Club
ARC: Shouhei Tanaka
Tea and Conversation: Elaine Kahn
Executive Committee Meeting
Ulysses Book Club
ARC: Jamie Luis Parra (Skidmore College)
Kanner Forum: Mary Pat Brady
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
First Day of Classes
Executive Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Last Day of Classes
Ulysses Book Club
Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Writers Series
Personnel Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
ARC: Merav Schocken
Ulysses Book Club
Personnel Committee Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Kanner Lecture Series: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Executive Committee Meeting
Ulysses Book Club
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
First Day of Classes
Executive Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Last Day of Classes
Faculty Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Creative Writing Town Hall Meeting
ARC: Tony Wei Ling
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
ARC: Alex Mazzaferro
Kanner Lecture Series: Saree Makdisi in conversation with Bruce Robbins
Executive Committee Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin, Extraction Ecologies: A Roundtable
Virtual Classrooms and Mercantile Mischief in Shakespeare’s England
Working Outside Your Comfort Zone
Personnel Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
First Day of Classes
Spring quarter ends
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Graduating and Award-Winning Student Poets Reading
2021 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
ARC: Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne
Cancelled: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
Executive Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Afropessimism and the Status of the Subject
Ed Hirsch & James Davis
“Black Seminole Romance and the Dialectics of Nature” – Talk with Amanda Jo Goldstein
“Jacobin Pastoral and the Inhuman Trade” – Talk with Amanda Jo Goldstein
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Spring quarter instruction begins
Winter quarter ends
Graduate Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Tapas.io x UCLA // A Luncheon AMA
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
ARC: Vivian Delchamps
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
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
Personnel Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Winter quarter instruction begins
Fall quarter ends
Personnel Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. A Book Talk
Personnel Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
ARC: Remote Research During the Pandemic
Faculty Meeting
Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC): Joshua Guzman
“Fictional Flesh and the Technology of Writing: Prosopopoeial Experiments in the Twelfth Century”
Executive Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Information Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence with Professor Christopher Looby
Fall quarter instruction begins
Department of English Welcome Panel
Information Session: Minor in Professional Writing with Professor Megan Stephan
Information Session: Creative Writing with Professor Justin Torres
Information Session: Minor in Literature and the Environment with Professor Ursula Heise
Spring quarter ends
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
Job Talk by Summer Kim Lee
POSTPONED: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
POSTPONED: Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlifes of Slavery. A Book Talk
Faculty Meeting
Spring quarter online instruction begins
Winter quarter ends
Faculty Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Job talk by Nicole Gervasio
Re-Charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
Gayatri Gopinath Job Talk
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
Executive Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
Poetry at the Hammer
Tea and Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid
How to talk about Atmosphere
Job Talk by Alison Bigelow
Job talk by Aimee Bahng
CANCELLED Winter 2020 Athenaeum
Executive Committee Meeting
Undergraduate Committee Meeting
The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series
Job Talk by Kimberly Takahata
“After English” A look into professional life with an English degree
Graduate Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Cultural Evolution & Its Discontents: A Book Talk
Poetry at the Hammer
Job Talk by Alex Mazzaferro
Author Event in the ERR: Tea & Conversation with Tobias Wolff
Executive Committee Meeting
Hydrophilic Archives: Early Handmade Paper in Unstable Environments
“Almost Beaver’s Brothers”: Reason and Reciprocity in Castor Territory. A Job Talk
“Undigested Sentiment in John Keats’s ‘Isabella; Or, The Pot of Basil’.”
William Caxton’s Multilingualism: The Claims of French and Dutch, English and Kentish
Winter Quarter: First Day of Classes
Campus Closure: Happy Holidays!
Faculty Meeting
A Reading by Student Authors
Faculty Meeting
Reading Poetry at the Hammer
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Tea and Conversation with Author Ben Learner
David Wong Louie Memorial Conference
ARC: Lisa Mendelman “Diagnosing America: Mental Health and Modern Literature, 1890-1940.”
Sex & Sentiment: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America
Poet and Professor Haryette Mullen receives the 2019 George Drury Smith Award
Faculty Meeting
Information Session: Minor in Entrepreneurship
Information Session: Literature and the Environment Minor
Reading Poetry at the Hammer
Medieval Reading Group
“The Play’s the Thing: Reading Race in Hamlet.”
Live Oak, With Moss Book Talk
Executive Committee Meeting
Faculty Meeting
“Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses: Cultivating Cosmic Perception.”
Graduate Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC)
First Day of Classes
Department Open House
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”