Events

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

The English Graduate Union Presents The Winter Athenaeum Monday, March 4 at 4:00pm to 6:00pm Featuring Brenda Wang, "Deform me to your likeness," and Cass Turner, "Salvage Economics," with David Russell as respondent. The Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research, providing a wonderful opportunity for grad...

Text/Tech, the English media lab, is pleased to announce the first of a series of visiting writers one-day workshops and readings. Our first visitor is LA poet and UCLA graduate Randy James. March 5 in Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan 211 at 12:00pm - 3:00pm Free and open to all UCLA students. Please submit by Feb. 29th a...

Text/Tech, the English media lab, is pleased to announce the first of a series of visiting writers one-day workshops and readings. Our first visitor is LA poet and UCLA graduate Randy James. March 5 at 4pm in Text/Tech Lab, Kaplan 211 Join us for a poetry reading featuring Randy James, who will read from his...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Kate Bolton Bonnici. Register here to attend. Kate Bolton Bonnici will read from her latest poetry collection, A True & Just Record. The reading will be followed by a discussion of her writing, led by Professor Marissa...

Film Screening & Discussion

Kanner Forum: Habiba Ibrahim

UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students. Monday, March 11 at 5pm Royce 306 Balcony (Weather permitting. Royce 314 otherwise.)

Join us for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors Students in the Creative Writing Fiction Program will read from work written during winter quarter. A reception will follow the event. Questions about the event? Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of poems include World Enough, chosen Best Poetry Book of the Year by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker, and her genre-breaking book of criticism and...

Sponsored by UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

Livestream available via HowlRound TV on Wednesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. PDT. For a Resilient US Theater, by UCLA researchers Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah, is part of Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts, a comparative transnational study on the resilience of theatre post-COVID funded by the British Academy. Between April 2023 and...

Presented by UCLA Library Film & Television Archive

Join the XR Spring Summit 2024 for a hybrid event featuring UCLA English and Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Danny Snelson. This presentation will focus on recent trends in AI production of 3D-generative assets and environments for VR play. XR platforms and tools covered include: LUMA Genie, Sketchfab, Pistol Whip, Beat Sage, Mozilla Hubs, New...

"R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity" Film Screening & Discussion

Why do non-wealthy minority students pirate academic textbooks? In this talk, Professor Gail De Kosnik will discuss her interviews with Black, brown, and Indigenous internet users about their pirate practices, and will analyze their conceptualizations of illicit media and information access as connection, cultural participation, and upward mobility—in other words, as survival. Register here to...

A Text/Tech event