Congratulations, class of 2026! We look forward to celebrating with you at our departmental commencement event in June. EVENT DETAILS AND EXPECTATIONS: The departmental event is a smaller, more personal ceremony for our graduates and their families. You will be able to celebrate your accomplishment with your fellow classmates and the English department's faculty and...
The Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) and the Working Group in Memory Studies present: Ecology, Memory, Poetry: Reading Paul Celan in the Anthropocene Paul Celan, one of the most important poets of post-World War II literature, is famous for his lyrical engagements with memory and the Holocaust. In recent years, he has also been...
Join us for our Kanner Forum featuring Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America—Moser traces a lineage...
Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. Founded in 1985, the Center provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies, and organizes a wide range of academic and...
Please join us for a poetry reading with visiting poet, Leo Boix on October 6, 2026. Kaplan Hall 193, 4pm-5pm, followed by a reception. Open to all. Students interested in participating in a poetry workshop, “The Sonnet, the Polyglot Poem and the Borderland: Writing Between Forms, Languages and Places,” with Leo Boix should fill out this form to...