On Friday, April 21st, the 20/21 Working Group will host “Contingency and Form," a conversation with Noa Saunders (Boston University), Lucy Alford (Wake Forest), and Louise Hornby. The event will take place in person at 11am in Kaplan 193. Please email Louise Hornby (lhornby@humnet.ucla.edu) for copies of the readings, and feel free to invite colleagues,...
We’re excited to announce a series of in-person events with the political theorist Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh) sponsored by the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies. Professor Mihai will be in residence the week of April 17-21 and will give a public lecture, lead a seminar, and respond to graduate students in a mini-conference. These events...
The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. UCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and discuss writing, publishing, identity, and more! At the Hour Between Dog and...
JOIN US FOR A VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION THURSDAY, APRIL 27 12:30pm-2:30pm PDT / 3:30pm-5:30pm EDT Register to attend here. FEATURING THE AUTHORS: JOSEPH BRISTOW (University of California, Los Angeles) SIMON JOYCE (College of William and Mary) KRISTIN MAHONEY (Michigan State University) Moderated by Zarena Aslami (Michigan State University) Introductions to their recently published books will...
Author and UCLA English Professor Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state mental hospital in the 1970s. This event is free and open to the public. Supported in part by UCLA Department of English....
Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Mona Simpson’s new novel, Commitment. Commitment is a resonant novel about family and duty and the attendant struggles that come when a parent falls ill. The novel honors the spirit of fragile, imperfect mothers and the under-chronicled significance of friends, in determining the...