Events

Make plans to drop by the ERR on Monday, March 12th from 5-7pm for a reading by some of our very talented creative writing students enrolled in English 137 this session.

2017-2018 Packer Series

The Shakespeare Association’s 46th Annual Meeting takes place in Los Angeles, California, between 28 and 31 March 2018. Full information about the meeting is available in the current Bulletin. A preliminary schedule for our 2018 annual conference is available here. Conference registration opens on 1 January 2018. Click here to register for the 46th Annual Meeting. Registration Fees For...

Ange Mlinko has written five books of poems, the most recent of which is Distant Mandate (FSG, 2017).  Her volume Starred Wire was a National Poetry Series selection, and Shoulder Season was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award.  A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism,...

Poet, novelist, essayist and UCLA Creative Writing Program Director Fred D'Aguiar is joined by award-winning poet, translator and UCLA Visiting Writer Sholeh Wolpé for a reading and discussion. About the Artists: Fred D'Aguiar writes across genres: poetry, fiction, plays and essays. He currently teaches at UCLA, where he directs the undergraduate creative writing program. His most recent novel,...

Please join us for a talk to be given by Sianne Ngai on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4 PM in Humanities 193, sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary.  Please see the above flyer for more information.

Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt, translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star, and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern. The recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from...

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...