Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local...
Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection, one of Esquire's best of spring 2022. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Supported in part...
Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 9:15am to 5:30pm in Kaplan Hall 193 The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA's Undergraduate Research...
Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Claire Stanford, author and PhD candidate in English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Claire Stanford's fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Tin House Flash Fridays, Black Warrior Review,...
Please join our 2021-2022 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will be presenting their honors theses, carefully crafted over the course of the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. This event is affiliated with UCLA’s annual Undergraduate Research Week. Friday, May 27 at 1:00pm to 5:00pm Showcase...
Please note: COVID protocols remain in place across campus, including at organized events. For the safety of our guests and the campus community, all reception attendees are required to show ONE of the following to enter the event: proof of COVID-19 vaccination; or the UCLA Symptom Monitoring Survey (SMS) clearance certificate from filling out the...
Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Michelle Huneven, Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels, including Round Rock (1996), Blame (2009) and her latest,...
Join us on Wednesday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m for a diverse selection of poetry from the graduating poets of the UCLA community. The event will be introduced by Karen Kevorkian and Reed Wilson. The student readers include Tara Bucoy-McNeely, Corinne Chapkis, Destiny Diaz, Alexandra Geurts, Elana Luo, Georgie McKeon, Selena Perez, Aidan Thompson, and...