Events
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Information Session: Minor in Literature and the Environment with Professor Ursula Heise
Engage with the cultural and environmental issues shaping the 21st century with our unique, interdisciplinary minor. Our department chair, Professor Heise, teaches regularly for the minor and looks forward to speaking with you. Find out more. REGISTER HERE
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Information Session: Minor in Professional Writing with Professor Megan Stephan
Professor Stephan will be answering questions about our newest minor, launched in Spring 2019! Learn about the minor’s curriculum, application process, capstone experience, and more. Find out more REGISTER HERE
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Information Session: Creative Writing with Professor Justin Torres
Professor Torres will be available to answer your pressing questions about Creative Writing at UCLA. What are the workshops really like? How does the application process work? Is the Creative Writing Concentration right for you? Come and find out! Find out more REGISTER HERE
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Department of English Welcome Panel
Hear from current UCLA students about their experiences in the Department of English! Our student panelists will represent our various majors and minors, transfer and first-year pathways, the departmental honors program, creative writing workshops, professional writing workshops, and more! We’ll also have our undergraduate advising team on hand to answer your questions. We hope to...
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Fall quarter instruction begins
Fall quarter begins
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Information Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence with Professor Christopher Looby
This program examines the experiences of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence, the beautiful Tuscan city where the Italian Renaissance originated. Join Professor Looby, program director, to learn more. Find out more REGISTER HERE
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Personnel Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
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Graduate Committee Meeting
Graduate Committee Meeting
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Faculty Meeting
Department Meeting
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Executive Committee Meeting
Executive Committee Meeting
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Faculty Meeting
Department Meeting
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“Fictional Flesh and the Technology of Writing: Prosopopoeial Experiments in the Twelfth Century”
A lecture in the Kanner Series
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Faculty Meeting
Department Meeting
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ARC: Remote Research During the Pandemic
ARC meetings are being held remotely. Please contact Chris Looby at clooby@humnet.ucla.edu for a Zoom link for the meeting.
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Personnel Committee Meeting
Personnel Committee Meeting
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Faculty Meeting
Department Meeting
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Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. A Book Talk
by Yogita Goyal
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The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation – Book Interview and Discussion with Christopher Zyda
The Storm: One Voice from the AIDS Generation featuring Christopher Zyda Author with remarks by Justin Torres Assistant Professor Join us for a special book discussion, reading, and Q&A with author, Christopher Zyda. The Q&A will be moderated by UCLA English student, Michael Carli '21. Please RSVP for the Zoom webinar at https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i2X-UxrUQy-61lrTN9diXw. Christopher Zyda confronts the long-buried...
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English Reading Room Writers Series: When the Virus Came Calling: COVID-19 Strikes America
A Reading and Conversation with Thelma T. Reyna
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The Politics of Fabulation
A lecture in the Kanner Series
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What Is Undug Will Be: A Digital Archive Launch for XCP (1997–2010) – Poetry Event Hosted by Danny Snelson and Harris Feinsod
This event celebrates the digital launch of the full run of XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics (1997–2010), featuring a truly remarkable set of readers representing all 23 issues. Alongside the reading, we'll be launching the full run of XCP to be made freely available at Open Door Archive and Jacket2 Reissues as part of the event. Register here: tiny.cc/xcp Hosted...
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Tapas.io x UCLA // A Luncheon AMA
Online Publishing and Creative Careers Event Organized by Professor Danny Snelson
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“Jacobin Pastoral and the Inhuman Trade” – Talk with Amanda Jo Goldstein
2020-21 Packer Lecture Series
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“Black Seminole Romance and the Dialectics of Nature” – Talk with Amanda Jo Goldstein
2020-21 Packer Lecture Series
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Ed Hirsch & James Davis
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading
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Afropessimism and the Status of the Subject
Please join us for a talk by Frank B. Wilderson III Afropessimism and the Status of the Subject On Thursday April 22 at 5:00PM Pacific Time, live via Zoom. Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s unique work of literature, philosophy, and memoir, asks the question: why does race—in its myriad manifestations—seem to color almost every pore...
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Cancelled: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
With What Eyes? Anne Carson Sappho
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2021 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
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 2021 conference will feature 8 student panels, with each panel moderated by a Dept. of English faculty member. Please see...