The Forum aims to promote scholarly dialogue and debate concerning the status and future of literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on exploring and engaging new theoretical paradigms and critical perspectives in humanistic scholarship.
The Forum aims to promote scholarly dialogue and debate concerning the status and future of literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on exploring and engaging new theoretical paradigms and critical perspectives in humanistic scholarship.
The graduate students of the UCLA English Department will be holding their annual Friends of English Southland Conference on the topic of “Adaptation.” For those interested in presenting at this interdisciplinary conference, the deadline for proposals is March 4, 2016.
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”...
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