Events

With Justin L. Mann

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,...

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.  “This is a book that makes a difference, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate, attraction and repulsion, thought and feeling that make...

Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Marisol’s Surface Work

Free Event

Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics, experiment, and politics. Light refreshments will be served. Eugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet, translator, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of...

With Dr. Jonathan Howard

UCLA English and The 20/21 Working Group Present: Spring Paper Workshop Feat. Michael Meagher Wednesday, May 6 at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 All are welcome for an informal discussion of Michael’s dissertation chapter on Edward Said’s memoir Out of Place, modernism, and postcolonial life writing. Snacks will be provided! RSVP: bit.ly/4sLiwxc

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! ACES 14th Annual Conference Friday, May 8 at 1 pm – 6 pm Kaplan Hall 193 Zoom livestream link here. The full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2026 Conference Program. The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature...

Join us Tuesday (5/12) for a book talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Organized by the Department of American Indian Studies (DAIS) as part of its Special Speaker Series, this event will highlight her recent Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (2025). Book sales and signing to...

Join UCLA Department of English to celebrate the publication of UCLA alum Woody Brown's debut novel, Upward Bound. Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. The reading will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson, Professor of English at UCLA. Upward Bound is not a place anyone...

Jameson in California – and Beyond Friday, May 15 at 1:00-7:00 pm Kaplan Hall 193 This day-long event will focus on Fredric Jameson’s intellectual, educational, and now archival legacy and engagement in California, and beyond. The conference will feature scholarly papers, personal reflections, archival updates, and multimedia works. Register here to attend. An RSVP is...

Tues. May 19 - Thurs. May 21

A.E. Stallings, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, has published five volumes of poems (most recently This Afterlife), as well as distinguished translations of Lucretius, Hesiod, and the pseudo-Homeric Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Her new book Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate...