Events

Please join students from our 2023-2024 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. Light refreshments will be served. View the program below or download the program here.  

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

Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Hua Hsu called Orphan Bachelors, “so many treasures at once: an enthralling memoir, an act of reckoning, a history of American exclusion and...

After 30+ years of dedicated service, Janel Munguia is retiring! Please join us for an evening of joy and nostalgia as we honor Janel's commitment and achievements. Let us know if you plan to attend by submitting your RSVP here. Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu

Join us for a reading and conversation with Fred D'Aguiar, Marissa López, and Gabriela Valenzuela about D'Aguiar's new book. The poems in For the Unnamed tell the story of the unnamed Black jockey who, in 1852, rode the winning steed in the race between Pio Pico's Sarco and Jose Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles....

Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City on April 22nd, 1998, is a touring poet and awarded author. He's a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,” was...

The English Graduate Union Presents The Spring Athenaeum Wednesday, June 5th at 4:00pm - 6:00pm Featuring Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan, with Louise Hornby as respondent. Please join us in Kaplan 193 for scholarship, refreshments, & conversation. The Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research, providing a...

Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors Students in the Creative Writing Program will read from work written during spring quarter. A reception will follow the event. Questions about the event? Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles The conference is free to attend with advance registration, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants...

The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday, June 7 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager mwallien@english.ucla.edu

Conference organized by Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles The conference is free to attend with advance registration, and will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registration will close on Monday, June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants...

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Before the screening in the lobby, UCLA Library Performing Arts Curator Miki Bulos...

September 12-17, 2024

We're excited to welcome new Bruins and to welcome back familiar faces! The Department of English will be hosting a number of info sessions on Wednesday, September 25, 2024. These sessions offer you the opportunity to learn more about specific programs within the department and to meet some of our faculty. We hope to see...

Following in a long tradition of marathon readings sponsored by the UCLA Department of English, please join a 24-hour reading of Edward Said’s memoir, Out of Place, from Oct 1, 9am - Oct 2, 9am. The event is co-sponsored by departments and units on campus including: American Indian Studies Center Asian American Studies Center Center for the Study...

Seating is on a first-come basis. Questions about the event? Visit CSW|Streisand Center for full details. Join us for Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley on her recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. The author will sign books purchased on site, courtesy of The Reparations...

Wednesday, October 23 Doors: 7 pm Event: 7:30 pm at 2220 Arts + Archives Questions about the event? Visit The Poetic Research Bureau for full details. ~ Roof Books, the legendary New York publisher of experimental and avant-garde poetry, invites you to a reading to celebrate the launch of two new titles by California poets: Bumblebees, by...

Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins, paradigms, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and...

Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins, paradigms, and future directions. In an era of seeming never-ending crisis, how may we conceive of the project of American Studies today, both in terms of its Cold War origins and its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and...