Events

We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture, lead a seminar, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events...

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. UCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and discuss writing, publishing, identity, and more! At the Hour Between Dog and...

JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION THURSDAY, APRIL 27 12:30pm-2:30pm PDT / 3:30pm-5:30pm EDT Register to attend here. FEATURING THE AUTHORS: JOSEPH BRISTOW (University of California, Los Angeles) SIMON JOYCE (College of William and Mary) KRISTIN MAHONEY (Michigan State University) Moderated by Zarena Aslami (Michigan State University) Introductions to their recently published books will...

Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English....

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel, Commitment. Commitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the...

Art Therapy: Marion Milner's Essays in Psychoanalysis

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

National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through, a meditation on friendship, empathy, and what it means to die well. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. Questions about the event? Visit the Hammer Museum for full...

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Carmen E. Lamas

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Carmen E. Lamas

A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference

A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference

Text/Tech Event Featuring Bo Ruberg

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 24 at 9:15am to 5:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 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 event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week....

The Department of English Honors Showcase will take place on Wednesday, May 31 at 1:40pm – 5pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please join our 2022-2023 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...

Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager mwallien@english.ucla.edu

We are thrilled to announce that the Spring Athenaeum is back! Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, June 6 at 5PM in Kaplan 193. Erica Weaver will present a paper entitled "The Limits of Attention" and Kersti Francis will present "A Queer Science? Masturbatory Alchemy in Early Modern England," with Sarah Kareem as respondent. Each...

Celebrate the end of spring quarter with a party and reading featuring Author in Residence, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and...