The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led...
Join us for a screening of Cymbeline, Refinished, directed by Michael Sexton and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. Cymbeline, Refinished Friday, May 22nd 4:00 PM (approx. 2 hours 15 minutes) Kaplan Hall 193 The reading will feature Shakespeare's original play, with Shaw's reimagined final act, giving...
Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is...
Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is...
The Barthes Fantastic: John Lurz in conversation with Louise Hornby Wednesday, May 27 at 4:00 pm Kaplan 193 John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life in the work of Roland Barthes. Doing so allows him to develop an expanded understanding of the fantastic as a conceptual category—a way of thinking—in which the...
Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is...
The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA University Club on Friday, May 29 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager mwallien@english.ucla.edu
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of spring quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday, June 2 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....
Fri. June 5 – Sat. June 6
Jonathan Swift, Edward Said, and the Profession of Literature
Congratulations, class of 2026! We look forward to celebrating with you at our departmental commencement event in June. EVENT DETAILS AND EXPECTATIONS: The departmental event is a smaller, more personal ceremony for our graduates and their families. You will be able to celebrate your accomplishment with your fellow classmates and the English department's faculty and...
The Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) and the Working Group in Memory Studies present: Ecology, Memory, Poetry: Reading Paul Celan in the Anthropocene Paul Celan, one of the most important poets of post-World War II literature, is famous for his lyrical engagements with memory and the Holocaust. In recent years, he has also been...
Join us for our Kanner Forum featuring Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America—Moser traces a lineage...