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City of God @ 25

UCLA English professors, Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres participate in panel to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Gil Cuadros' City of God. City of God is rooted in the lived experience of its Angeleno author and is acknowledged to be among the first literary works to document AIDS through the eyes of a poz queer Latinx writer and artist.

Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres

Navigating the Personal and the Literary

Carmen Maria Machado’s forthcoming memoir, In the Dream House, focuses on queer domestic violence and dissects cultural representations of physical abuse. Machado discusses navigating the personal and the literary with novelist and UCLA professor, Justin Torres.

UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

Professor Danny Snelson selected as 2019-20 UCLA Hellman Fellow for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats

UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion awards Professor Arvind Thomas a Faculty Career Development Award

Recognizing Faculty Milestones

Recognizing Faculty Milestones

Lowell Gallagher

2019 UCLA commencement faculty speaker inspires students to “read us all into better arguments and better conversations.”

Faculty speaker, Professor Matthew Fisher, renews the value of a literary education Matthew Fisher

Unexpected Itineraries: Holocaust Testimony beyond Borders

Professor Michael Rothberg / UCLA Faculty Center

Mark Gallagher brings Little Women exhibit to UCLA Library

Exhibit open through Thursday, March 28, 2019

Slaves to the Rhythm: Grace Jones, Disco and Black Feminist Aesthetics

Burke Lecture Series - Indiana University a lecture by Dr. Uri McMillan

Anthony Hecht: Worth the Weight

Inaugural Lecture for the Literary Arts Programs at the University of Rochester with Jonathan Post

UCLA partners with KCET for new digital series

Allison Carruth serves as executive producer for the new series "Food Futures" which explores current innovations and visions for ecological and equitable food systems.

“Urban Ark Los Angeles” Documentary

Ursula K. Heise completed a new project that showcases innovative connections between the humanities and the environment at UCLA.

Play the LA River

Allison Carruth helps kick off the program, designed to bring people to the 51-mile waterway to relax and play.