Events

UCLA Comparative Literature invites you to a presentation and conversation with Argentine scholar and writer Alejandro Manara who will be discussing his most recent book Benedit a contrapelo (Benedit Against the Grain.) The event will be held on Friday November 15, 2024 at 1:00pm PST in Kaplan Hall 193. Alternatively, you may choose to attend the event...

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 fall quarter. A reception will follow the event. Questions about the event? Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

After 45 years of distinguished service, Professor Richard Yarborough is embarking on a well-deserved retirement. We are pleased to invite you to a special symposium in honor of Professor Yarborough to celebrate his extraordinary contributions to the field of African American literature and U.S. literature. This symposium will bring together colleagues, former students, and friends...

Kanner Forum: Jeffrey Sacks

Medieval Texts Reading Group Winter 2025 Meeting Friday, January 24 3:00-5:00 pm Kaplan 193, UCLA For our Winter 2025 meeting, we will meet on Jan 24,  3:00 - 5:00 PM, in Kaplan 193, and we will read a selection from Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum X (Ten Books of History) (in English and in Latin). Join us...

With Huda J. Fakhreddine

Armen Davoudian, who grew up in Isfahan, Iran, has published his first volume of poems, The Palace of Forty Pillars, which the San Francisco Chronicle named “Best Book of Spring.” Davoudian also translated from Persian Hopscotch, by the contemporary dissident Persian poet Fatemeh Shams. Currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, Davoudian's dissertation...

Please join us for a conversation with Lisa Yin Han in dialogue with Elizabeth DeLoughrey about the oceanic humanities. Lisa Yin Han is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College and the author of Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (2024). Supported by the UCLA Program in Digital Humanities and Department...

This program will take place at the Landmark Westwood Theater, at 1045 Broxton Avenue. View directions Adam Phillips, “Britain’s foremost contemporary psychoanalytic thinker” (The New Yorker), will be in conversation with UCLA English Professors David Russell and Mona Simpson on Kindness, Missing Out, Wanting to Change, Getting Better and Giving Up. Adam Phillips, formerly a...

Led by Professor Christopher Looby

Led by Professor Colleen Jaurretche

UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.

Everyone is invited and welcome to join the party this Tuesday, March 11 at 5pm in the ERR for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors. Come join us for a night of good food and drinks as students in the Creative Writing Program read from work...