Events

This event will be held in Kaplan Hall 348 and will be followed by lunch.

On Friday, April 21st, the 20/21 Working Group will host “Contingency and Form," a conversation with Noa Saunders (Boston University), Lucy Alford (Wake Forest), and Louise Hornby. The event will take place in person at 11am in Kaplan 193. Please email Louise Hornby (lhornby@humnet.ucla.edu) for copies of the readings, and feel free to invite colleagues,...

We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture, lead a seminar, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events...

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. UCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and discuss writing, publishing, identity, and more! At the Hour Between Dog and...

JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION THURSDAY, APRIL 27 12:30pm-2:30pm PDT / 3:30pm-5:30pm EDT Register to attend here. FEATURING THE AUTHORS: JOSEPH BRISTOW (University of California, Los Angeles) SIMON JOYCE (College of William and Mary) KRISTIN MAHONEY (Michigan State University) Moderated by Zarena Aslami (Michigan State University) Introductions to their recently published books will...

Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English....

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel, Commitment. Commitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the...

Art Therapy: Marion Milner's Essays in Psychoanalysis

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Sigrid Nunez at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to...

National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through, a meditation on friendship, empathy, and what it means to die well. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English. Questions about the event? Visit the Hammer Museum for full...

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Carmen E. Lamas

A Barbara L. Packer event featuring Carmen E. Lamas

A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference

A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference

Text/Tech Event Featuring Bo Ruberg

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 24 at 9:15am to 5:00pm 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 Week....

The Department of English Honors Showcase will take place on Wednesday, May 31 at 1:40pm – 5pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please join our 2022-2023 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will...

Questions about the event? Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager mwallien@english.ucla.edu

We are thrilled to announce that the Spring Athenaeum is back! Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, June 6 at 5PM in Kaplan 193. Erica Weaver will present a paper entitled "The Limits of Attention" and Kersti Francis will present "A Queer Science? Masturbatory Alchemy in Early Modern England," with Sarah Kareem as respondent. Each...

Celebrate the end of spring quarter with a party and reading featuring Author in Residence, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and...

On View Oct 7, 2023- Dec 31, 2024

As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University) will share about his research that focuses on written norms and laws of the European West between 500 and 1500 CE.  He is author of several scholarly monographs,...

Join us for a poetry reading featuring Dr. Craig Santos Perez. He is the author of two spoken word poetry albums, Undercurrent (2011) and Crosscurrent (2017), and five books of poetry: from unincorporated territory (2008), from unincorporated territory  (2010), from unincorporated territory (2014), from unincorporated territory (2017), and Habitat Threshold (2020). His work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese,...

Kanner Forum: Craig Santos Perez

In this talk, Professor Frida Beckman will take you on a trip through the contemporary paranoid imaginary. This means a swift but hopefully not too mindboggling tour from the 1950s to the present with flashbacks to Richard von Krafft-Ebing, detours to Jordan B. Peterson, and temporary stops along the way at usual suspects such as...

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly will discuss their new graphic novel, Roaming. Books will be available for purchase following the event. Register here to attend the event. Roaming marks a triumphant return to the graphic novel and deft foray into new adult fiction for Caldecott Medal-winning authors Jillian Tamaki (Boundless) and Mariko...

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Justin Torres and his new novel, Blackouts. Blackouts is a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and has been named A Most Anticipated Read by The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric...

Led by Professor Saree Makdisi

As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Professor Craig Muldrew (Cambridge, UK) will share about his expertise in British Social and Economic History from 1500 to 1800. Craig Muldrew’s research mainly focuses on the investigation of the economic and...

Led by Professor Christopher Looby

Text/Tech Event Featuring Jessica Luck

Hosted by Professors Rachel Lee and Helen Deutsch

Hosted by Professors Rachel Lee and Helen Deutsch

Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten

Junior Faculty Series: Caroline (Caz) Batten

UCLA English Graduate Students are welcome to attend breakfast with Raúl Coronado at 10am in Kaplan Hall 250. Following this breakfast, Raúl Coronado will present his talk, How to Write a History of Latinx Desire, at 12:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please RSVP to the form below to attend breakfast. Register here to attend breakfast.

How can we track the emergence of the literary in the archive of nineteenth-century US Latinx writing? In this talk, Raúl Coronado will argue that aesthetic forms try to capture an energetic quality of life that he'd like to call presence. Rethinking desire as the desire for presence allows us to unravel more carefully not...

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