Events

Hosted by Professors Rachel Lee and Helen Deutsch

Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten

Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten

UCLA English Graduate Students are welcome to attend breakfast with Raúl Coronado at 10am in Kaplan Hall 250. Following this breakfast, Raúl Coronado will present his talk, How to Write a History of Latinx Desire, at 12:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please RSVP to the form below to attend breakfast. Register here to attend breakfast.

How can we track the emergence of the literary in the archive of nineteenth-century US Latinx writing? In this talk, Raúl Coronado will argue that aesthetic forms try to capture an energetic quality of life that he'd like to call presence. Rethinking desire as the desire for presence allows us to unravel more carefully not...

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been...

Please join us for a practice job talk by Arielle Stambler at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, January 16th in Kaplan 193. The title of Arielle's talk is: The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel.

Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An associate professor of English at UC Irvine, she is a former...

Segue Reading Series @ Artists Space Lee Ann Brown Brian Kim Stefans Saturday, January 27, 2024 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST Zoom Webinar ID: 893 9594 7519 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89395947519 11 Cortlandt Alley South of Canal between Lafayette & Broadway

Department of Comparative Literature Event

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

Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times calls her most recent novel, Secrets of Happiness (2021), “humane, elegant and wise.” Readings are followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona...

A Text/Tech Event

William Andrews Clark Lecture on Oscar Wilde Lecture by Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles This lecture sheds fresh light on the forty-six-year-old Oscar Wilde’s early death from encephalomeningitis at the shabby Hôtel d’Alsace on Friday, November 30, 1900, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. By drawing on documents held...

Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) Event

My Hollywood and Other Poems