2018-2019 Packer Series
When: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall

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.”

2018-2019 Kanner Series
When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall

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: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall

This Summer Travel Study program examines the experiences of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence, the beautiful Tuscan city where the Italian Renaissance originated. This info session is led by Program Director and English Department Faculty, Professor Chris Looby. He will discuss everything you need to know about the program and what to expect when you arrive including: coursework, excursions, lodging, among other questions related to your daily life while in Florence.

When: Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:30 pm
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall

Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on this Thursday, November 29th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students.

When: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 6:00 pm
Where: Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, 235 Kaplan Hall

Please join us at the Westwind Journal Fall Quarter Reading with award-winning visiting Professor Juliana Wang (author of Home Remedies) and student writers Taylor Leig and Evelyn Jean-Louis.  Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

When: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:30 pm
Where: Hammer Museum - 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024

When: Thursday, November 15, 2018 7:30pm
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Tony Hoagland writes that Mary Ruefle combines “the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens” in a “poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter.” Ruefle has written across several genres (including the comic book, “erasure” poetry, and essays) and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Award.

When: Thursday, November 8, 2018 5:30 am

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.

Keynote speaker: Elaine Showalter (Emeritus Professor of English, Princeton University)
When: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:30 am
Where: 306 Royce Hall

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 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall

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 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall

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.