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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

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

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

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...

Fall quarter begins

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

Personnel Committee Meeting

Graduate Committee Meeting

Department Meeting

Executive Committee Meeting

Department Meeting

A lecture in the Kanner Series

Department Meeting

ARC meetings are being held remotely. Please contact Chris Looby at clooby@humnet.ucla.edu for a Zoom link for the meeting.

Personnel Committee Meeting

Department Meeting

by Yogita Goyal

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...

A Reading and Conversation with Thelma T. Reyna

A lecture in the Kanner Series

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...

Online Publishing and Creative Careers Event Organized by Professor Danny Snelson

2020-21 Packer Lecture Series

2020-21 Packer Lecture Series

Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading

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...

With What Eyes? Anne Carson Sappho

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...

Featuring poets from the UCLA Department of English