ARC with Günter Leypoldt (Univ. of Heidelberg)
"Literary Value from a Socio-Institutional Perspective."
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Prospective Graduate Students Welcome Week Reception
UCLA English faculty, graduate students, and staff are invited to attend our Welcome Week Reception, honoring visiting prospective English graduate students.
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Tea and Conversation: Kiran Desai
Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAJoin UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Kiran Desai Kiran Desai will discuss her writing. This event is followed...
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Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai’s newest novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love...
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Creative Writing Prose Reading
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of winter quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday, March 17 at 5 PM in...
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An Afternoon of Poetry with Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans
Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans. Perelman will share recent poems in addition to selections from his latest book, Chatty Fossils. Stefans...
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Lacan’s Veil: Ekphrasis between Access and Occlusion
Professor Jaś Elsner, Oxford University
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Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity
With Justin L. Mann
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Thinking Gender 2026 Graduate Student Research Conference
Register for Thinking Gender — April 17 Feminist and Queer Ecologies Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 Location: James West Alumni Center Cost: Free to attend Join us for a day of graduate student...
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New Book Salon, “Turning Away”
A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. “This is a book that makes a difference, not...
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ARC with Maia Gil’Adí (Johns Hopkins University)
Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Marisol’s Surface Work
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Lunch Poems: A Poetry Reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl
Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics, experiment, and politics. Light refreshments will...
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Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness
With Dr. Jonathan Howard
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20/21 Working Group with Michael Meagher
UCLA English and The 20/21 Working Group Present: Spring Paper Workshop Feat. Michael Meagher Wednesday, May 6 at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 All are welcome for an informal discussion...
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2026 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
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....
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Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, Book Talk by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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...
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Book Launch: Upward Bound by Woody Brown
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...
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Jameson in California, and Beyond
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...
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5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
Tues. May 19 - Thurs. May 21
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Hammer Poetry Series: A.E. Stallings
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,...
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2026 Spring Athenaeum
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...
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The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep
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,...
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ARC with Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and 2025-26 Van Dyck Chair, UCLA)
"Ambivalence and the Politics of Form: Literary Experiment and the Question of Representation, 1970-2000."