Events

Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child

A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Elaine Kahn. Register for this event here. Elaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights, 2015) and Romance or The End (Soft Skull, 2020). Writing has appeared in the LA Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Granta,...

A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Danielle Evans. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and...

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her...

This event has been canceled. Join the Hammer, UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation in celebrating its long-standing poetry series for Poetry Month with the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading. This year’s judge is the distinguished poet Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 3 Sections, Poetry Editor for The Paris Review, and Director of non-fiction...

Saturday, April 30, 2022 9:30am to 10:30am PST (12:30pm to 1:30pm EST) Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97007181579 Please join us for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor Kathryn Kerby Fulton’s new book, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). Speakers: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University Misty Schieberle,...

Join UCLA English as we celebrate the launch of our new Digital Media Lab. Register for this event here. Per UCLA COVID-19 protocols, all attendees are required to complete the UCLA COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring Survey in order to enter the event. Masks are strongly recommended for attendees who are up to date on vaccinations, and they...

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Michael K. Bourdaghs, the Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Exploring ideas from his recent book, A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (Duke University Press, 2021), Michael Bourdaghs will discuss how the fiction and...

A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (ERR) is pleased to announce that we are dedicating two ERR reading tables to honor Jeanette Gilkison for her years of service to the Department of English. We cordially invite you to join us on Friday, May 13th for a reception to unveil Jeanette's table plaques and...

Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...

Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local...

Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection, one of Esquire's best of spring 2022. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Supported in part...

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 9:15am to 5:30pm 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...

Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Claire Stanford, author and PhD candidate in English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Claire Stanford's fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Tin House Flash Fridays, Black Warrior Review,...

Please join our 2021-2022 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will be presenting their honors theses, carefully crafted over the course of the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. This event is affiliated with UCLA’s annual Undergraduate Research Week. Friday, May 27 at 1:00pm to 5:00pm Showcase...

Please note: COVID protocols remain in place across campus, including at organized events. For the safety of our guests and the campus community, all reception attendees are required to show ONE of the following to enter the event: proof of COVID-19 vaccination; or the UCLA Symptom Monitoring Survey (SMS) clearance certificate from filling out the...

Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Michelle Huneven, Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels, including Round Rock (1996), Blame (2009) and her latest,...

Join us on Wednesday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m for a diverse selection of poetry from the graduating poets of the UCLA community. The event will be introduced by Karen Kevorkian and Reed Wilson. The student readers include Tara Bucoy-McNeely, Corinne Chapkis, Destiny Diaz, Alexandra Geurts, Elana Luo, Georgie McKeon, Selena Perez, Aidan Thompson, and...

Join UCLA English for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor A. W. Strouse's new book, Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Fordham University Press, 2021) Saturday, June 4, 2022 9:00am to 10:00am PST / 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95313958125 Speakers: Jeannie Sellick, Creighton University Kersti Francis, UCLA Cary S....