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SUMMARY:Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. \nProfessor Greenblatt’s remarks will be followed by a moderated Q&A session with UCLA English Professor Claire McEachern. \nPresented by the UCLA College\, UCLA School of Law\, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and UCLA Social Sciences. \n\n\n\nIMPORTANT INFORMATION\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo attend the in-person event at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center\, register here.\nSeating is first-come\, first served and is not guaranteed. Registration does not guarantee entry.\nParking instructions will be provided in the registration confirmation email.\nDetails are subject to change; please check this website for updated information.\nFor questions or more information contact collegeevents@support.ucla.edu.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of 15 books\, including “Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics”; “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve”; “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern” (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize) and “Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.” His newest book\, “Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival\,” focuses on the astonishing life and enduring legacy of Christopher Marlowe. \nHe is general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare\, has edited seven collections of criticism\, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. He was named the 2016 Holberg Prize Laureate. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize\, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre\, two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation. \nHe was president of the Modern Language Association of America and has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the American Philosophical Society\, the Italian literacy academy Accademia degli Arcadi\, and is a fellow of the British Academy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nQUESTIONS FOR STEPHEN GREENBLATT CAN BE SUBMITTED HERE. \n\n\n\n\nSubmitted questions will be reviewed by the deans and moderator. Due to time constraints\, not all questions will be asked.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/luskin-lecture-for-thought-leadership/
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SUMMARY:Born Sacred: Poems for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac as he reads from his second book of poetry\, Born Sacred: Poems for Palestine\, a journalistic poetry collection reflecting on Palestinian and Indigenous solidarities\, genocides\, life\, and liberation\, released earlier this year. \nRegister here to attend. \nSmokii Sumac is a Ktunaxa two spirit poet\, emerging playwright\, painter and Cultural Youth Worker. He has released two poetry collections and is working on a spoken word album forthcoming in early 2026. Smokii lives in ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa with his husband\, their cats\, chicken\, and a “big ole rez dog” named Kootenay Lou. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne\, Assistant Professor of English\, moehahne@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/born-sacred-poems-for-palestine/
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SUMMARY:Camille Ralphs Poetry Reading - After You Were\, I Am
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a poetry reading featuring Camille Ralphs\, author of After you Were\, I Am. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. \nCamille Ralphs\, born 1992\, is a poet\, critic and editor. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including the New York Review of Books\, The Poetry Review\, The Spectator and The London Magazine\, and she has released three pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press\, 2015)\, which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award\, uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press\, 2020) and Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press\, 2023). She writes critically for publications including The Telegraph\, The Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, produces a regular column for Poetry London and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement. After you Were\, I Am is her first collection.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/camille-ralphs-poetry-reading-after-you-were-i-am/
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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions of the field. The conference explores how the study of American literature has evolved in relation to its Cold War origins\, its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s\, and its reinvigoration through cultural studies. Leading figures present research on American literature from its inception to the present\, staging a lively discussion about current critical challenges\, approaches\, and methods. \nGenerously supported by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in the College \nOrganizer: \nYogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies\, UCLA \nSchedule  \nOctober 3 \n10-10.30 \nWelcome and Introductions \nDean Alexandra Minna Stern \nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Nancy Martinez \n10.30: Sean Teuton\, “Primal Returns: Tribal Storytelling\, Deep Reading\, and the Rise of Native American Literature” \n11.30: Sakiru Adebayo\, “The Americanization of African Literature: A History” \nSession 2 \n2-4 \nChair: Uri McMillan \n2: Sampada Aranke\, “The Hammons Effect” \n3: Lee Edelman\, “The Hole in the Everything Bagel: Queerness\, Blackness\, and Other Catachreses of Multiversal Non-Singularity” \nReception \n4-5.30 \nFaculty Lounge\, 2nd floor\, Kaplan Hall \nOctober 4 \nSession 3 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Aditya Bahl \n10.30: Patricia Stuelke\, “Dark Academia and the New Cultural Front” \n11.30 : Francisco Robles\, “Poetic Forms\, Desert Time\, and Desert Movements” \nSession 4: \n2-4 \nChair: Jonathan Grossman \n2: Sri Basu McCall\, “Revolution’s Racial Masques” \n3: Travis Foster\, “Too Good to Live: Trans Feminine Children and the Sentimental Death Trap” \n4-5.30 \nClosing Roundtable\, led by ALH co-editors Russ Castronovo and Yogita Goyal; Assistant Editor Noah Terrell and Managing Editor Elijah Levine \nSpeaker Bios: \n \nSakiru Adebayo\, “The Americanization of African Literature: A History”  \nSakiru Adebayo is an Assistant Professor and the James and Eva Good Chair of African and Postcolonial Literature at Western University. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa (shortlisted for the African Literature Association First Book Award and finalist for the Memory Studies Association First Book Award). Dr. Adebayo is also the winner of the 2022 Nigerian Prize for Literary Criticism and the 2023 Amilcar Cabral Prize. He is the host of “The New African Diaspora Podcast”. His papers have been published in such journals as Parallax\, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry\, Postcolonial Text\, Research in African Literatures\, Journal of African Literature Association\, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies\, Museum International\, Journal of African Cinemas\, and Memory Studies. \n \nSampada Aranke\, “The Hammons Effect” \nSampada Aranke is an Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment\, visual culture\, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in e-flux\, Artforum\, Art Journal\, ASAP/J\, and October. She has written catalogue essays for Sadie Barnette\, Betye Saar\, Rashid Johnson\, Faith Ringgold\, Kambui Olujimi\, Sable Elyse Smith\, and Zachary Fabri. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions at galleries and museums\, including the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and The Driskell Center at the University of Maryland\, College Park. She is the recipient of the 2021 Art Journal award for her article “Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes.” Her book\, Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power (Duke University Press\, 2023) examines the ways artists and activists reconceptualized death as a generative visual and political force in the Black Power era. Death’s Futurity was awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2023 William Sanders Scarborough Prize. \n \nSri Basu McCall\, “Revolution’s Racial Masques”  \nSri Basu McCall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine. Her first book\, Rogue Genres of the Revolutionary Atlantic (under contract with Cornell UP)\, presents a triangulated narrative of crime\, class warfare and racialization in the eighteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic in which colonial slaves and the metropolitan laboring poor are connected parts of a larger and underexplored story of colonial dispossession. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\, Nineteenth Century Studies\, MELUS and American Literary Realism. \n \nLee Edelman “The Hole in the Everything Bagel: Queerness\, Blackness\, and Other Catachreses of Multiversal Non-Singularity”  \nLee Edelman is the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He has published widely in the areas of theory\, sexuality studies\, literature\, and film and is the author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane’s Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (1987)\, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (1994)\, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004)\, L’impossible homosexuel: Huit essais de théorie queer (2013)\, and\, with Lauren Berlant\, Sex\, or the Unbearable (2014). His most recent book\, Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (2022) was awarded Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize by the MLA. \n \nTravis Foster\, “Too Good to Live: Trans Feminine Children and the Sentimental Death Trap”  \nTravis Foster is Associate Professor of English and Academic Director Gender and Women’s studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford University Press\, 2019); the editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body (2022); and the co-editor of “American Women’s Writing and the Genealogy of Queer Thought\,” a special issue of Legacy (2020). He has published articles in\, among other places\, American Literature\, American Literary History\, ESQ\, The History of the Present\, and The Edith Wharton Review. His most recent publication\, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\, received the 1921 Prize honorable mention for the year’s best essay in American literature\, tenured category. His new book project\, a cultural history of trans feminine childhood in the nineteenth century U.S.\, is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press. \n \nFrancisco Robles\, “Poetic Forms\, Desert Time\, and Desert Movements”  \nFrancisco E. Robles is Associate Professor of English\, Latino Studies\, and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame\, as well as the co-editor of Post45: Contemporaries. He is the author of Coalition Literature (Stanford University Press\, 2025). Articles\, reviews\, and chapters can be found in MELUS\, Post45: Peer Reviewed\, Latino Studies\, Twentieth-Century Literature\, Chiricú\, A Contracorriente\, Post45: Contemporaries\, and Killing the Buddha\, as well as the collections Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities\, the Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing\, Deserts Are Not Empty\, and Latinx Literature in Transition\, 1992-2020. \n \nPatricia Stuelke\, “Dark Academia and the New Cultural Front” \nPatricia Stuelke is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique\, was published by Duke University Press in 2021. Her other writing has appeared in venues such as American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, Genre\, differences\, and Post45 Contemporaries. She is currently at work on a second book project on twenty-first century transnational cultural front politics and aesthetics\, for which she was awarded a 2022-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. \n \nSean Teuton\, “Primal Returns: Tribal Storytelling\, Deep Reading\, and the Rise of Native American Literature”  \nSean Teuton is Professor of English\, Director of Indigenous Studies\, and Fulbright College Master Researcher at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Red Land\, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (Duke 2008)\, Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2018)\, and What Was the Trail of Tears? (Penguin forthcoming). He is at work on a monograph entitled Many Trails: Cherokee Writers at the Crossroads\, and has completed his first novel\, The Wolf Trail. Teuton was born in Compton\, California and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. \nSampada Aranke photo credit: Kristie Kahns
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now-4/
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SUMMARY:American Literary History Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conference on American literary history to discuss origins\, paradigms\, and future directions of the field. The conference explores how the study of American literature has evolved in relation to its Cold War origins\, its reinvention in response to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s\, and its reinvigoration through cultural studies. Leading figures present research on American literature from its inception to the present\, staging a lively discussion about current critical challenges\, approaches\, and methods. \nGenerously supported by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in the College \nOrganizer: \nYogita Goyal\, Professor of English and African American Studies\, UCLA \nSchedule  \nOctober 3 \n10-10.30 \nWelcome and Introductions \nDean Alexandra Minna Stern \nRuss Castronovo and Yogita Goyal \nSession 1 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Nancy Martinez \n10.30: Sean Teuton\, “Primal Returns: Tribal Storytelling\, Deep Reading\, and the Rise of Native American Literature” \n11.30: Sakiru Adebayo\, “The Americanization of African Literature: A History” \nSession 2 \n2-4 \nChair: Uri McMillan \n2: Sampada Aranke\, “The Hammons Effect” \n3: Lee Edelman\, “The Hole in the Everything Bagel: Queerness\, Blackness\, and Other Catachreses of Multiversal Non-Singularity” \nReception \n4-5.30 \nFaculty Lounge\, 2nd floor\, Kaplan Hall \nOctober 4 \nSession 3 \n10.30-12.30 \nChair: Aditya Bahl \n10.30: Patricia Stuelke\, “Dark Academia and the New Cultural Front” \n11.30 : Francisco Robles\, “Poetic Forms\, Desert Time\, and Desert Movements” \nSession 4: \n2-4 \nChair: Jonathan Grossman \n2: Sri Basu McCall\, “Revolution’s Racial Masques” \n3: Travis Foster\, “Too Good to Live: Trans Feminine Children and the Sentimental Death Trap” \n4-5.30 \nClosing Roundtable\, led by ALH co-editors Russ Castronovo and Yogita Goyal; Assistant Editor Noah Terrell and Managing Editor Elijah Levine \nSpeaker Bios: \n \nSakiru Adebayo\, “The Americanization of African Literature: A History”  \nSakiru Adebayo is an Assistant Professor and the James and Eva Good Chair of African and Postcolonial Literature at Western University. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa (shortlisted for the African Literature Association First Book Award and finalist for the Memory Studies Association First Book Award). Dr. Adebayo is also the winner of the 2022 Nigerian Prize for Literary Criticism and the 2023 Amilcar Cabral Prize. He is the host of “The New African Diaspora Podcast”. His papers have been published in such journals as Parallax\, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry\, Postcolonial Text\, Research in African Literatures\, Journal of African Literature Association\, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies\, Museum International\, Journal of African Cinemas\, and Memory Studies. \n \nSampada Aranke\, “The Hammons Effect” \nSampada Aranke is an Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment\, visual culture\, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in e-flux\, Artforum\, Art Journal\, ASAP/J\, and October. She has written catalogue essays for Sadie Barnette\, Betye Saar\, Rashid Johnson\, Faith Ringgold\, Kambui Olujimi\, Sable Elyse Smith\, and Zachary Fabri. She has curated and co-curated exhibitions at galleries and museums\, including the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis and The Driskell Center at the University of Maryland\, College Park. She is the recipient of the 2021 Art Journal award for her article “Blackouts and Other Visual Escapes.” Her book\, Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power (Duke University Press\, 2023) examines the ways artists and activists reconceptualized death as a generative visual and political force in the Black Power era. Death’s Futurity was awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2023 William Sanders Scarborough Prize. \n \nSri Basu McCall\, “Revolution’s Racial Masques”  \nSri Basu McCall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine. Her first book\, Rogue Genres of the Revolutionary Atlantic (under contract with Cornell UP)\, presents a triangulated narrative of crime\, class warfare and racialization in the eighteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic in which colonial slaves and the metropolitan laboring poor are connected parts of a larger and underexplored story of colonial dispossession. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900\, Nineteenth Century Studies\, MELUS and American Literary Realism. \n \nLee Edelman “The Hole in the Everything Bagel: Queerness\, Blackness\, and Other Catachreses of Multiversal Non-Singularity”  \nLee Edelman is the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He has published widely in the areas of theory\, sexuality studies\, literature\, and film and is the author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane’s Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (1987)\, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (1994)\, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004)\, L’impossible homosexuel: Huit essais de théorie queer (2013)\, and\, with Lauren Berlant\, Sex\, or the Unbearable (2014). His most recent book\, Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (2022) was awarded Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize by the MLA. \n \nTravis Foster\, “Too Good to Live: Trans Feminine Children and the Sentimental Death Trap”  \nTravis Foster is Associate Professor of English and Academic Director Gender and Women’s studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford University Press\, 2019); the editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body (2022); and the co-editor of “American Women’s Writing and the Genealogy of Queer Thought\,” a special issue of Legacy (2020). He has published articles in\, among other places\, American Literature\, American Literary History\, ESQ\, The History of the Present\, and The Edith Wharton Review. His most recent publication\, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\, received the 1921 Prize honorable mention for the year’s best essay in American literature\, tenured category. His new book project\, a cultural history of trans feminine childhood in the nineteenth century U.S.\, is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press. \n \nFrancisco Robles\, “Poetic Forms\, Desert Time\, and Desert Movements”  \nFrancisco E. Robles is Associate Professor of English\, Latino Studies\, and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame\, as well as the co-editor of Post45: Contemporaries. He is the author of Coalition Literature (Stanford University Press\, 2025). Articles\, reviews\, and chapters can be found in MELUS\, Post45: Peer Reviewed\, Latino Studies\, Twentieth-Century Literature\, Chiricú\, A Contracorriente\, Post45: Contemporaries\, and Killing the Buddha\, as well as the collections Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities\, the Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing\, Deserts Are Not Empty\, and Latinx Literature in Transition\, 1992-2020. \n \nPatricia Stuelke\, “Dark Academia and the New Cultural Front” \nPatricia Stuelke is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique\, was published by Duke University Press in 2021. Her other writing has appeared in venues such as American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, Genre\, differences\, and Post45 Contemporaries. She is currently at work on a second book project on twenty-first century transnational cultural front politics and aesthetics\, for which she was awarded a 2022-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. \n \nSean Teuton\, “Primal Returns: Tribal Storytelling\, Deep Reading\, and the Rise of Native American Literature”  \nSean Teuton is Professor of English\, Director of Indigenous Studies\, and Fulbright College Master Researcher at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Red Land\, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (Duke 2008)\, Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2018)\, and What Was the Trail of Tears? (Penguin forthcoming). He is at work on a monograph entitled Many Trails: Cherokee Writers at the Crossroads\, and has completed his first novel\, The Wolf Trail. Teuton was born in Compton\, California and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. \nSampada Aranke photo credit: Kristie Kahns
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/american-literary-history-now-3/
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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SUMMARY:The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind
DESCRIPTION:James Baldwin (1924–1987) completed his singular blend of memoir and film criticism\, The Devil Finds Work\, nearly 50 years ago\, on November 19\, 1975\, at his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence\, France. In stunning prose\, his book-length essay tells the story of how as a young boy\, Baldwin awakened to what he calls “the cinema of my mind\,” and under the tutelage of his teacher Bill Miller\, learned to both delight in the power of storytelling while also challenging the lies American cinema tells about social realities. “Baldwin’s writing treats self\, society\, and art as a whole\, to be argued with and lived with and loved all at once\,” writes The Atlantic. \nOn the heels of the global Baldwin centennial celebrations in 2024\, this six-night film series features films from 1932 to 1973 that Baldwin analyzes in The Devil Finds Work as well as documentary works about Baldwin’s life (1970-1985). Alongside the screenings\, each program also features a live dramatic reading from The Devil Finds Work\, placing the evening’s moving images in direct conversation with Baldwin’s incisive voice.—Public Programmer Beandrea July \nFor more information\, visit https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/devil-finds-work-james-baldwins-cinema-of-the-mind-2025 \n\n\n\n\nJames Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket\nJuly 25\, 2025 – 7:30 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater\n\n\n\n\nA Tale of Two Cities\nJuly 27\, 2025 – 7:00 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater\n\n\n\n\nIn This Our Life\nAugust 3\, 2025 – 7:00 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater\n\n\n\n\nTales of Manhattan\nAugust 8\, 2025 – 7:30 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater\n\n\n\n\nThe Exorcist\nAugust 10\, 2025 – 7:00 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater\n\n\n\n\nIn the Heat of the Night\nAugust 15\, 2025 – 7:30 pm\nBilly Wilder Theater
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-devil-finds-work-james-baldwins-cinema-of-the-mind/
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Committee Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-committee-meeting-18/
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Faculty Meeting
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion & Celebration: David Russell's Marion Milner: On Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate David Russell’s new book\, Marion Milner: On Creativity. David will be in conversation with Helen Deutsch\, Louise Hornby\, Sarah Kareem\, and Mona Simpson to celebrate the publication of his book. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate David and his new work!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-celebration-david-russells-marion-milner-on-creativity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250606T170000
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SUMMARY:English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
DESCRIPTION:The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA Faculty Club on Friday\, June 6 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm. \n\nQuestions about the event?\nContact Marta Wallien\, Programs and Media Manager\nmwallien@english.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/english-and-writing-programs-honors-and-awards-reception-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T193000
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SUMMARY:Some Favorite Writers: James Lasdun
DESCRIPTION:James Lasdun has written several books of fiction\, memoir and poetry. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Granta and the London Review of Books. His most recent book is the novel Afternoon of a Faun. Lasdun will read from his forthcoming nonfiction work Family Man: The Enigma of Alex Murdaugh\, about the infamous South Carolina murders\, which originated as the most-read New Yorker article of 2023. He will also share excerpts from his current novel-in-progress\, The Iron Gates\, a chapter of which was published in The Paris Review and nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction. Followed by a conversation with renowned novelist Mona Simpson. \nCopresented by the UCLA Department of English. \nQuestions about the event?\nVisit the Hammer Museum for full details.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/some-favorite-writers-james-lasdun/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T190000
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SUMMARY:Tea and Conversation: James Lasdun
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: \nTea and Conversation with James Lasdun \nJames Lasdun will discuss his writing. \nThis event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: James Lasdun at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. \nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nJames Lasdun has written several books of fiction\, memoir and poetry. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Granta and the London Review of Books. His most recent book is the novel Afternoon of a Faun. Lasdun will read from his forthcoming nonfiction work Family Man: The Enigma of Alex Murdaugh\, about the infamous South Carolina murders\, which originated as the most-read New Yorker article of 2023. He will also share excerpts from his current novel-in-progress\, The Iron Gates\, a chapter of which was published in The Paris Review and nominated for a National Magazine Award for Fiction. \nQuestions about the event?\nEmail: englishevents@ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/tea-and-conversation-james-lasdun/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T180000
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SUMMARY:Spring Reception
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T130000
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SUMMARY:Honors Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join students from our 2024-2025 departmental honors cohort as they showcase their work. Students will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year. Both critical research and creative works will be featured. Light refreshments will be served. \nClick here to download the event program. \nClick here to join the Zoom livestream.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/honors-showcase/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion & Celebration: Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Michelle Huneven’s new novel\, Bug Hollow. Bug Hollow is a decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis. \nRegister here to attend. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Michelle and her new work!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/book-discussion-celebration-michelle-hunevens-bug-hollow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z
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SUMMARY:ARC with Jené Pledger (UCLA)
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/arc-with-jene-pledger-ucla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T111500
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SUMMARY:2025 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students! \nWednesday\, May 21 in Kaplan Hall 193 \nZoom livestream link here\n \nThe full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2025 Conference Program. \nThe 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 Week.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/2025-academic-conference-for-english-students-aces/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T120000
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SUMMARY:Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:4th annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\n“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”\n-Anne Lamott \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our fourth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2025. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-three of the PWM’s eighty-one graduating seniors in AY 24-25 will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From Rachel Zegler to the Armenian diaspora\, urban planning to the effects of SSRIs during pregnancy\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs\, websites\, zines\, research articles\, and digital marketing campaigns. \nThe colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/professional-writing-minor-capstone-seminar-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Texts Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:For our Spring 2025 meeting\, we will meet on May 16\,  3:00 – 5:00 PM\, in Kaplan 193\, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th century alliterative poem (in Middle English\, but don’t be discouraged! Just do your best!) sets two allegorical figures\, Winner and Waster\, against each other in a debate about the proper use of things. They offer competing understandings of what it means to waste in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Join us for a discussion about over-using\, under-using\, not using\, prematurely using\, belatedly using\, and strange medieval food stuffs led by Prof. Matthew Fisher (English). Handouts of each reading will be available during the group meeting\, but are also linked in the calendar below and can also be found HERE. \nThe 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 get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. \nNo preparation is necessary (other than a brief skim of the text) and no expertise or medieval knowledge is required – only enthusiasm! Suggestions for what to read (or what kinds of texts to read) are very welcome. \nFor questions\, contact Matthew Fisher (fisher@humnet.ucla.edu)\, Basil Arnould Price (basilprice@ucla.edu)\, or Erica Weaver (ericaweaver@humnet.ucla.edu). \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/medieval-texts-reading-group-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
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SUMMARY:Spring Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:The English Graduate Union Presents \nThe Spring Athenaeum \nThursday\, May 15 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nFeaturing Miranda Hoegberg and Uri McMillan\, with Louise Hornby as respondent. \nThe Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research\, providing a venue for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate collegiality and dialogue across the department\, spanning historical periods and methodological approaches. Please join us for conversation and refreshments as we celebrate the wonderful research of our colleagues!
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/spring-athenaeum-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T180000
DTSTAMP:20260825T012150Z
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SUMMARY:LENS Book Talk with Allison Carruth
DESCRIPTION:Novel Ecologies challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with ever larger-scale forms of technological intervention. Against the new worlds conjured by Google\, Meta\, Open AI\, Amazon\, SpaceX\, and a host of lesser-known start-ups\, Carruth marshals writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful environmental futures while refusing to forget the histories that have made the world what it is. \nAllison Carruth is a professor in the Program in American Studies and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Her current research interests include environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology. For over a decade\, she has worked on collaborations that aim to bridge ideas from and re-imagine the boundaries between the arts\, humanities\, and sciences. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) and co-author with Amy L. Tigner of Literature and Food Studies (Routledge\, 2018)\, and Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press\, 2025).
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/lens-book-talk-with-allison-carruth/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T150000
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SUMMARY:EHRG Coffee Hour with Allison Carruth
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Humanities Research Group (EHRG) will host a coffee hour for graduate students and Professor Allison Carruth from 2–3pm in Kaplan 193\, followed by Professor Carruth’s talk at 4pm in Kaplan 193.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ehrg-coffee-hour-with-allison-carruth/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T180000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Witt Book Talk - The Thinking Machine
DESCRIPTION:The  L.A.-based writer\, TV producer and investigative journalist will join us to discuss his new book\, The Thinking Machine.  Stephen’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Slate\, WSJ\, and many other venues. He is executive producer of the 2024 streaming series based on his first book\, How Music Got Free. \nRegister here to attend the event. A light reception and book signing will follow the talk. Books will be available to purchase at the event. \n\nAbout THE THINKING MACHINE \nIn June 2024\, spurred by the frenzy of investment following the launch of ChatGPT and thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant\, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth.  In The Thinking Machine\, acclaimed journalist Stephen Witt recounts the unlikely story of how a manufacturer of video game components shocked Silicon Valley by conquering the market for AI hardware\, and in the process reinvented the computer. \n“The story of how Nvidia became the hottest investment on Wall Street and a household name is fascinating.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/stephen-witt-book-talk-the-thinking-machine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T190000
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SUMMARY:Retirement Party in Honor of Jenny Sharpe
DESCRIPTION:Professor Jenny Sharpe\, a renowned scholar of postcolonial studies\, the Black Atlantic\, and cultural theories of globalization\, is retiring after a 32-year distinguished career marked by groundbreaking scholarship and dedicated service. We invite you to join us for a special reception in honor of Professor Sharpe that will bring together colleagues\, former students\, and friends to reflect on her lasting impact and the profound influence of her research and teaching. \nWe request your RSVP to attend. Please RSVP here. \nProfessor Sharpe profoundly shaped the field of literary studies with important works such as Allegories of Empire\, which examines representations of interracial rape for managing crises in British colonial authority\, and Slavery: A Literary Archeology of Black Women’s Lives\, which challenges conventional notions of subaltern agency. Most recently\, her book Immaterial Archives theorizes an African Diaspora poetics of loss\, further cementing her legacy as a transformative thinker. Beyond her scholarship\, she has been an advocate for diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, serving as Associate Dean of Humanities for the past six years. Her career and contributions will be celebrated at her retirement party\, honoring the lasting impact she has had on the field and academic community. \nThe reception is organized by Ali Behdad\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. This reception is co-sponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Division of Humanities. \nQuestions about the event?\nContact Ali Behdad: behdad@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/retirement-party-in-honor-of-jenny-sharpe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T120000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-57/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T121500
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SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T153000
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SUMMARY:Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday May 2nd at 1:30pm for a public lecture by Emily Hodgson Anderson\, “Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nLocation: Hershey Hall Salon \nLunch is offered; RSVP here to attend. \n“Ghost Writing: The Secret History of the No Bodies Who Write.” \nWe’ve probably all had this thought\, recently\, reading a campus-wide email\, or a student essay\, or the transcript of a politician’s speech: who really wrote these words? \nThe looming presence of AI is clearly one reason why this question is at the forefront of our minds—but the question also predates AI and brings up new questions of its own.  \nWhen is an author not an author?  \nThe question might feel like the set up for a joke with Barthes or Foucault as the punchline\, however\, in this talk\, Emily Hodgson Anderson’s answer to this question will take us in a different direction. \nWhen is an author not an author? When an author uses a ghostwriter ….   \nUnderstood broadly as the act of one person writing in another person’s name\, the practice has\, according to many ghostwriters\, been around since written language itself. And yet the implementation\, and acknowledgment\, of this practice have varied greatly over time. Who are these invisible figures? Why do they do what they do? And why do they remain disembodied— behind the scenes?  In part a cultural history of this mysterious and intuitively captivating profession\, in part an exposé of how contemporary professional ghostwriting works\, this public lecture uses ghostwriting to animate the questions posed by the workshop on the No-Body Problem. \nEmily Hodgson Anderson is Professor of English and Dean of Undergraduate Education for Dornsife College at USC. She is the author of two books of literary criticism\, Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction (Routledge\, 2009) and Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss (University of Michigan Press\, 2018). She is also author of the newly published cross-over book Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life (Columbia UP 2025). For five years\, she served as the editor-in-chief for the academic journal The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her academic work has appeared in the journals PMLA\, ELH\, and Studies in the Novel\, among others\, and her public-facing writing has appeared in places such as the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Rambling\, LitHub and Air/Light.  She is currently at work on a new book titled Ghostwriting: A Secret History\, from God to AI.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/ghost-writing-the-secret-history-of-the-no-bodies-who-write/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T113000
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SUMMARY:The No-Body Problem
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to think collaboratively without the body? Please join us on Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd at Hershey Hall on the UCLA campus to hear—and participate in—a series of conversations on this subject. \nThis two-day event gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem\,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media. The eighteenth century is a natural moment to launch these questions\, since it witnessed the emergence of modern media (including print)\, new collectivities in so-called republics of letters\, the epistolary novel\, widespread literacy\, theories of information and social complexity\, and forms of being attendant on communication at a distance. That age is rich in reflections upon\, and responses to\, innovations in communication media\, since it was encountering modes of disembodied relationality which anticipate our own. \nOur goal is to think collectively\, in person\, about the long history of thought about the relationship between embodiment and modern media; we aim to unearth the roots of modern patterns of thought in early experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, offering a historical counterweight to arguments over virtuality which are anything but novel. \nSeating is limited; please RSVP here.
URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/the-no-body-problem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260825T005425Z
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SUMMARY:Southern California Eighteenth-Century Group: Serena Zabin
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URL:https://english.ucla.edu/event/southern-california-eighteenth-century-group-serena-zabin/
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