Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 22 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom. Join the event via Zoom here. The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The...
The Text/Tech Media Lab invites you to attend a Poetry Writing Workshop with Stacie Cassarino May 22 12-3pm Text/Tech Kaplan 211 Free and open to all UCLA students and poets of all levels. To Apply: Please submit up to 3 poems and a short statement answering the question "Why I write" by May 18 to medialab@english.ucla.edu Following...
Join us for a poetry reading featuring Stacie Cassarino, who will read from her book, Each Luminous Thing, and additional published pieces. Register here to attend the reading. This event is preceded by a Poetry Writing Workshop from 12:00 pm to 3:00pm. Stacie Cassarino's recent collection, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's...
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Please join students from our 2023-2024 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. Light refreshments will be served. View the program below or download the program here.
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and...
Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Hua Hsu called Orphan Bachelors, “so many treasures at once: an enthralling memoir, an act of reckoning, a history of American exclusion and...
After 30+ years of dedicated service, Janel Munguia is retiring! Please join us for an evening of joy and nostalgia as we honor Janel's commitment and achievements. Let us know if you plan to attend by submitting your RSVP here. Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu
Join us for a reading and conversation with Fred D'Aguiar, Marissa López, and Gabriela Valenzuela about D'Aguiar's new book. The poems in For the Unnamed tell the story of the unnamed Black jockey who, in 1852, rode the winning steed in the race between Pio Pico's Sarco and Jose Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles....