The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will...
Chris Looby, “Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the ‘bad books’ controversy.”
In conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung's English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar
Please join us in Royce 306 on Tuesday, February 17 at 4:00pm for Hannah Weaver's talk, "The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication.” On the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. This event is sponsored by...
Attention English Department graduate students: You're invited to join The Environmental Humanities Research Group's (EHRG) February meeting at SIPP Coffee House on Westwood Blvd. The meeting will take place on February 19 at 10:30am. The group will discuss the introduction of "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. The group can share a PDF of the...
Please join us in Hershey Salon on Thursday February 19th at 4 PM for Dr. Jina B. Kim's talk on her new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing. This is one of the most highly anticipated books in disability studies this year! In Care at the End...