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...
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