Events

The English Graduate Union Presents The Spring Athenaeum Thursday, May 15 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm Featuring Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan, with Louise Hornby as respondent. The Athenaeum brings together...

For our Spring 2025 meeting, we will meet on May 16,  3:00 - 5:00 PM, in Kaplan 193, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This...

4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” -Anne Lamott About The Event UCLA Writing Programs...

Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 21 in Kaplan Hall 193 Zoom livestream link here The full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2025...

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Michelle Huneven’s new novel, Bug Hollow. Bug Hollow is a decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson...

Please join students from our 2024-2025 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with James Lasdun James Lasdun will discuss his writing. This event is followed...

James Lasdun has written several books of fiction, memoir and poetry. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta and the London Review of Books. His most recent...

The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday, June 6 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Questions about the event? Contact...

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate David Russell’s new book, Marion Milner: On Creativity. David will be in conversation with Helen Deutsch, Louise Hornby, Sarah...

James Baldwin (1924–1987) completed his singular blend of memoir and film criticism, The Devil Finds Work, nearly 50 years ago, on November 19, 1975, at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France....

Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins, paradigms, and future directions of the field. The conference explores how the study of American literature has evolved...

Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins, paradigms, and future directions of the field. The conference explores how the study of American literature has evolved...

Join UCLA English for a poetry reading featuring Camille Ralphs, author of After you Were, I Am. Register here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Camille Ralphs, born...

Book launch, reading, and discussion with Smokii Sumac

Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Professor Greenblatt’s remarks will be followed by a moderated Q&A session with UCLA English Professor Claire McEachern. Presented by the UCLA College, UCLA School...

Join us for the symposium, "Indigiqueer, Trans*, and Two-Spirit Relations and Worldmaking," on Friday, October 10 at 10:00am - 4:30pm in the Founders' Room at the James West Alumni Center....

Edible Entanglements: Race, Environment and Ethics October 14, 2025 (Tuesday) 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., UCLA Royce Hall, Room 314 Full schedule is available here. Free healthy lunch is provided...

All are welcome to join us for a seminar titled, "About Looking: John Ruskin and John Berger," on Friday, October 17 from 11am - 4pm in Kaplan 193. This seminar...

All are welcome to attend the Medieval Texts Reading Group on Friday, October 17 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Professor Roberta Morosini (ELTS) will be leadings our...

Join us for a special screening of Invierno, a recent staged reading of José Cruz González’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Kaplan Hall 193 Wednesday, October 22nd 3:00 PM Halloween...

Salem Martinez, “Let’s Start at The End of the World, Shall We?: Sacred Rage as Resistance in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy.”

Kanner Forum with Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji

Día de los Muertos: Mourning and Remembering through Ecological Change will explore cross-cultural grief in the context of environmental and species loss. Join us on November 1 from 11am-1pm at...