Events

UCLA English Graduate Students are welcome to attend breakfast with Raúl Coronado at 10am in Kaplan Hall 250. Following this breakfast, Raúl Coronado will present his talk, How to Write a History of Latinx Desire, at 12:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193. Please RSVP to the form below to attend breakfast. Register here to attend breakfast.

How can we track the emergence of the literary in the archive of nineteenth-century US Latinx writing? In this talk, Raúl Coronado will argue that aesthetic forms try to capture an energetic quality of life that he'd like to call presence. Rethinking desire as the desire for presence allows us to unravel more carefully not...

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been...

Please join us for a practice job talk by Arielle Stambler at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, January 16th in Kaplan 193. The title of Arielle's talk is: The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel.

Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain