Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins, paradigms, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and...
The delicate, undaunted, disconcerting power of Forrest Gander’s work springs from the view that dimensions of experience, too often neatly segregated, intersect. He will read from Mojave Ghost, which a subtle subtitle designates A Novel Poem and which unfolds from desert walks during which he discovers the reticulations of past and present, actual and recalled,...
The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each...
Join Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles Claire McEachern, for an exhibition tour of Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking, 1500 to Now. Questions about the event? Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.
UCLA Comparative Literature invites you to a presentation and conversation with Argentine scholar and writer Alejandro Manara who will be discussing his most recent book Benedit a contrapelo (Benedit Against the Grain.) The event will be held on Friday November 15, 2024 at 1:00pm PST in Kaplan Hall 193. Alternatively, you may choose to attend the event...