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  • March 2026

  • Mon 9

    Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception

    March 9 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.

  • Thu 12

    Tea and Conversation: Kiran Desai

    March 12 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Kiran Desai Kiran Desai will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open...

  • Thu 12

    Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai

    March 12 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    Kiran Desai’s newest novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, a family saga,...

  • Fri 13

    Executive Committee Meeting

    March 13 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Fri 13

    Faculty Meeting

    March 13 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Fri 13

    Faculty Workshop

    March 13 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Fri 13

    Undergraduate Committee Meeting

    March 13 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Tue 17

    Creative Writing Prose Reading

    March 17 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of winter quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday, March 17 at 5 PM in Kaplan 193. Students from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends, grab some pizza and drinks, and enjoy the party....

  • April 2026

  • Wed 8

    An Afternoon of Poetry with Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans

    April 8 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans. Perelman will share recent poems in addition to selections from his latest book, Chatty Fossils. Stefans will also share new poems, as well as read his recent AI-assisted work, Beauty Face. Register here to attend. Drinks and light refreshments will be...

  • Thu 9

    Lacan’s Veil: Ekphrasis between Access and Occlusion

    April 9 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    Professor Jaś Elsner, Oxford University

  • Fri 10

    Executive Committee Meeting

    April 10 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Fri 10

    CANCELED: Faculty Meeting

    April 10 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Fri 10

    Undergraduate Committee Meeting

    April 10 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Thu 16

    Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity

    April 16 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    With Justin L. Mann

  • Fri 17

    Thinking Gender 2026 Graduate Student Research Conference

    April 17 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

    Register for Thinking Gender — April 17 Feminist and Queer Ecologies Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 Location: James West Alumni Center Cost: Free to attend Join us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the environment. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (California Polytechnic State University,...

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