Events

At the Beyond Salon

By Lisa Mendelman

The UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) meets three to four times a quarter, providing American literature graduate students, faculty, and invited guests with an opportunity to share their works- in-progress. Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College), “Diagnosing America: Mental Health and Modern Literature, 1890-1940.”

A conference to commemorate David Wong Louie's writing and teaching legacy by bringing together scholars, writers, and student that were and continue to be influenced and inspired by Louie's work. Internationally recognized as a literary pioneer in Chinese-American writing in several genres—novel, short story, and personal essay—Louie forged a powerfully eloquent voice that mapped with...

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Author Series

A book presentation and reception

A poetry reading by Richard Kenney

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series

A lecture by Professor Ad Putter

By Cailey Hall

This paper close reads seventeenth-century European and Wabanaki stories about human-beaver relations in order to revise our understanding of the confrontation of cultures that colonization comprised. This paper responds to recent work in early American studies at the intersection of the history of science and reason on one hand, and, on the other, research on...

Richard & Mary Rouse Annual History of the Book Lecture

One of America’s preeminent writers, Tobias Wolff is the author of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the short-story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and Our Story Begins. His honors include...