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...
We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Spring Athenaeum will be held Thursday, May 24 from 4–6pm. The event will be in Humanities 193 with a reception to follow. The Spring Athenaeum will feature work by Alexandra Verini and Professor Danny Snelson with Professor Brian Kim Stefans serving as the respondent. Hope to see you there!
Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on Monday, June 4th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students enrolled in English 137 this session.
Diversifying the Classics is proud to present LA Escena, Los Angeles' first Hispanic classical theater festival, coming to the Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036) from Friday September 21st through Sunday September 23rd. Cutting-edge Mexican company EFE Tres will present Lope de Vega’s El príncipe inocente (The Innocent Prince), a...