Events

Faculty, staff, and students come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA! Featuring faculty, alumni, and student speakers.

Meet our Department Chair, Professor Saree Makdisi, and learn about summer travel study in London.

Drop by 235 Kaplan Hall for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (ERR) Open House on Wednesday 9/21 or Thursday 9/22 between 1-5PM. You can: Tour the ERR and find your favorite spot to read, study, and write. Meet the ERR Librarian and discuss your research interests or schedule a research consultation. Learn...

Professor Christopher Looby will share information about our summer travel study program in Florence, Italy.

Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter

Injured Enough: Asian Bodies, Wounded Objects, and Precious Materials

Harryette Mullen is the author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry. Three of her early collections published in the 1990s...

Join the UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies for a reading featuring André Naffis-Sahely, Professor of English at University of California, Davis and the editor of Poetry London in the UK. Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day...

Trans Negative Affect

Join UCLA’s Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA Departments of English and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) for “Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in an Era of Climate Change,” featuring Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. As we bear witness...

Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities