Events

Life Beyond English offers current students the chance to engage in discussions with recent department graduates from a variety of fields. Join us as our alumni share their lived experiences and answer your questions about building a life and career after graduation. This series caters primarily to English and American Literature and Culture majors and...

Please join us for an information session about the new Professional Writing Minor.

A lecture by Dr. Annette Gilbert

A 24 hr Celebration of Literature

David Lehman is a poet, literary critic, editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry, and creator of the Best American Poetry series. Lee Upton praises Lehman’s new volume, Playlist, in these terms: “What a gorgeous and ambitious poem … an elegy, a calendar, an enactment of beauty, a tribute to singers and musicians and...

The graduate students of the UCLA English Department will be holding their annual Southland Conference on May 10th and 11th, 2019. This year's topic is EXTRA//ORDINARY and the keynote speakers will be Professor Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) and Professor Rei Terada (UC Irvine). Paper proposals are being accepted now from any discipline. For more information...

The graduate students of the UCLA English Department will be holding their annual Southland Conference on May 10th and 11th, 2019. This year's topic is EXTRA//ORDINARY and the keynote speakers will be Professor Sarah Tindal Kareem (UCLA) and Professor Rei Terada (UC Irvine). Paper proposals are being accepted now from any discipline. For more information...

2018-2019 Kanner Series

Come relax and enjoy the work of student poets of color interested in dispelling toxic stereotypes and creating a transformative dialogue through poetry.  All are welcome!