Events

You are cordially invited to drop by the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room on Tuesday, April 24th at 6pm for light refreshments and a discussion with author Alice McDermott.  

Graduate students and interested faculty are invited to a colloquium on the core topics of form and interdisciplinarity, led by Anahid Nersessian (UCLA) and Jonathan Kramnick (Yale).  Readings for the meeting will be sent via email.

Please join us for a lecture given by Professor Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Notre Dame) on the topic of “The Amphibian Clericus Class, Underemployment, and Career Diversification in Late Medieval England.”  Kathryn Kerby-Fulton holds an endowed chair at University of Notre Dame, and has published on Middle English literature and medieval intellectual history, including censorship, apocalypticism, visionary...

The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and their literary communities.  The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four...

Event Photos: goo.gl/3ofdkH You’re invited to the 2018 Marathon Reading, presented by the UCLA English department and Friends of English! For a full day, UCLA students and faculty will team up with distinguished guests to read both novels, relay-style, for an audience. Discussions, performances, and other fun breaks will be planned throughout the day. This fantastic...

Please join us on Wednesday, May 9th at 4pm in Room 193 Humanities Building for a talk and reception with Kim Hedlin, a recipient of the Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research. Learn more about the Grace M. Hunt Award for Archival Research and hear how Kim used her archival travel award. Kim will...

2017-2018 Kanner Series

California native Jennifer Moxley’s most recent collection of poems Druthers (Flood 2018) “elegantly characterizes poetry as a vehicle for immortality” (Publishers Weekly).  Her book The Open Secret (Flood 2014) was awarded the 2015 William Carlos Williams award, and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts award. Moxley is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the...

Mark McGurl's scholarly work centers on the relation of literature to social, educational and other institutions from the late 19th century to the present.  He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard), which was the recipient of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for 2011. McGurl's previous...

Come see members of the Los Angeles community read their favorite poems!  Since its founding 20 years ago by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the U.S., the  Favorite Poem Project has presented programs that feature people from many walks of life reading and commenting on poems meaningful to them. The Project has also...