Events
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Ulysses Book Club
A Collective Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses
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ERR Table Plaque Dedication Ceremony Honoring Jeanette Gilkison
The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (ERR) is pleased to announce that we are dedicating two ERR reading tables to honor Jeanette Gilkison for her years of service to the Department of English. We cordially invite you to join us on Friday, May 13th for a reception to unveil Jeanette's table plaques and...
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Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Yopie Prins
Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...
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Barbara L. Packer Lecture: Yopie Prins
Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...
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Tea and Conversation: Geoff Dyer
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local...
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Some Favorite Writers: Geoff Dyer
Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection, one of Esquire's best of spring 2022. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Supported in part...
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2022 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 9:15am to 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193 The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA's Undergraduate Research...