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  • Tue 12

    Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, Book Talk by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    May 12 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    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...

  • Wed 13

    Book Launch: Upward Bound by Woody Brown

    May 13 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    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...

  • Fri 15

    Jameson in California, and Beyond

    May 15 @ 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    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...

  • Sun 17

    Spring Reception

    May 17 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Tue 19

    5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium

    May 19 @ 2:00 pm - 4:45 pm

    Tues. May 19 - Thurs. May 21

  • Tue 19

    Hammer Poetry Series: A.E. Stallings

    May 19 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    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,...

  • Wed 20

    2026 Spring Athenaeum

    May 20 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    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...

  • Thu 21

    The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep

    May 21 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    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,...

  • Thu 21

    ARC with Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and 2025-26 Van Dyck Chair, UCLA)

    May 21 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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

  • Thu 21

    Memory, Madness, and Messianism: Thinking with My Father, the Messiah by Gil Z. Hochberg

    May 21 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    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...

  • Thu 21

    Out of Plain Sight

    May 21 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

    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...

  • Fri 22

    Medieval Texts Reading Group

    May 22 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    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...

  • Fri 22

    Revelation Reading: Cymbeline, Refinished

    May 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    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,...

  • Tue 26

    Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: On Disavowal

    May 26 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

    Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In...

  • Wed 27

    Graduate Lunch Workshop: Caleb Smith

    May 27 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In...

  • Wed 27

    20/21 Working Group with John Lurz (Tufts University)

    May 27 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

    The Barthes Fantastic: John Lurz in conversation with Louise Hornby Wednesday, May 27 at 4:00 pm Kaplan 193 John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life in the...

  • Thu 28

    Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: Revenge Vows

    May 28 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

    Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In...

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