Events

UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students. Monday, March 11 at 5pm Royce 306 Balcony (Weather permitting. Royce 314 otherwise.)

Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors Students in the Creative Writing Fiction Program will read from work written during winter quarter. A reception will follow the event. Questions about the event? Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and...

Sponsored by UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

Livestream available via HowlRound TV on Wednesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. PDT. For a Resilient US Theater, by UCLA researchers Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah, is part of Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts, a comparative transnational study on the resilience of theatre post-COVID funded by the British Academy. Between April 2023 and...

Presented by UCLA Library Film & Television Archive

Join the XR Spring Summit 2024 for a hybrid event featuring UCLA English and Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Danny Snelson. This presentation will focus on recent trends in AI production of 3D-generative assets and environments for VR play. XR platforms and tools covered include: LUMA Genie, Sketchfab, Pistol Whip, Beat Sage, Mozilla Hubs, New...

"R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity" Film Screening & Discussion

Why do non-wealthy minority students pirate academic textbooks? In this talk, Professor Gail De Kosnik will discuss her interviews with Black, brown, and Indigenous internet users about their pirate practices, and will analyze their conceptualizations of illicit media and information access as connection, cultural participation, and upward mobility—in other words, as survival. Register here to...

A Text/Tech event