Events

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Kirsten Silva Gruesz

A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a MacDowell and Kundiman fellow, and a member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who...

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

In Adam Moss’s new book The Work of Art, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that were their tools, Moss traces the tortuous paths and artist...

Grand Theft Eco is a machinima series and pedagogical engine that repurposes the video game Grand Theft Auto to explore possible eco-futures of LA in the year 2050. In this premiere screening, we share the first episode of Grand Theft Eco, The iBear in the River, which focuses on a vibrant and revitalized LA River...

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic, Oshiwambo, Xhosa, and Italian...

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 22 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 and on Zoom. Join the event via Zoom here. The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The...

The Text/Tech Media Lab invites you to attend a Poetry Writing Workshop with Stacie Cassarino May 22 12-3pm Text/Tech Kaplan 211 Free and open to all UCLA students and poets of all levels. To Apply: Please submit up to 3 poems and a short statement answering the question "Why I write" by May 18 to medialab@english.ucla.edu Following...

Join us for a poetry reading featuring Stacie Cassarino, who will read from her book, Each Luminous Thing, and additional published pieces. Register here to attend the reading. This event is preceded by a Poetry Writing Workshop from 12:00 pm to 3:00pm. Stacie Cassarino's recent collection, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's...

Sāmoan artist, filmmaker, poet & scholar

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...