Events

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! ACES 14th Annual Conference Friday, May 8 at 1 pm – 6 pm Kaplan Hall 193 Zoom livestream link here....

Join us Tuesday (5/12) for a book talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Organized by the Department of American Indian Studies (DAIS) as part of...

Join UCLA Department of English to celebrate the publication of UCLA alum Woody Brown's debut novel, Upward Bound. Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. The...

Jameson in California – and Beyond Friday, May 15 at 1:00-7:00 pm Kaplan Hall 193 This day-long event will focus on Fredric Jameson’s intellectual, educational, and now archival legacy and...

Tues. May 19 - Thurs. May 21

A.E. Stallings, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, has published five volumes of poems (most recently This Afterlife), as well as distinguished translations of Lucretius,...

2026 Spring Athenaeum Wednesday, May 20 at 4-6pm in Kaplan 193 Featuring Presenters Enrique Olivares-Pesante and Jonathan Grossman, with Yogita Goyal as Respondent. Please join us in Kaplan 193 for...

Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book,...

"Ambivalence and the Politics of Form: Literary Experiment and the Question of Representation, 1970-2000."

Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at Columbia University.  She discusses her new memoir in conversation with UCLA colleagues, Hannah Jakobsen (Comp Lit), Rachel Lee...

Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist Rosanna Xia. Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media...

The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once each term, we get together to discuss a text in English...

Join us for a screening of Cymbeline, Refinished, directed by Michael Sexton and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series. Cymbeline, Refinished Friday,...