Come hear about the fascinating, inspirational relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
UCLA's Department of English cordially invites you to the 7th Annual Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)! Please come and support our English and American Literature & Culture majors. Panels to be announced soon. Feel free to attend a particular panel or stay for the entire day!
Srikanth Reddy’s most recent book of poems, Voyager, was named one of the best books of poetry of the year by The New Yorker and NPR. His poems have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies including Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and among his awards are a Whiting Foundation Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship. A literary...
You are cordially invited to drop by the English Reading Room on Tuesday, January 30th at 6pm for refreshments and a discussion with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Come chat with English faculty and advisors to get all your major questions answered!
In the introduction to his 1912 edition of Donne’s poetry, Herbert J.C. Grierson writes of “the vein of sheer ugliness which runs through his work, presenting details that seem merely and wantonly repulsive.” Dr. Goodblatt will argue that the grotesque is rather a constructive aspect of Donne’s thought, by focusing on his poems “The Flea”...
2017-2018 Kanner Series
Rosanna Warren teaches in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). She is the recipient of awards from the Academy...
You are cordially invited to drop by the English Reading Room on Tuesday, March 6th at 6pm for refreshments and a discussion with author Mary Gaitskill.
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.