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Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature

By Mitchum Huehls

Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan F.S. Post

Harryette Mullen named 2022 UCSC Humanities Division Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna

Letters to America

By Fred D’Aguiar

Year of Plagues. A Memoir of 2020

By Fred D'Aguiar

Willa Cather’s Queer Economy

By Joseph Dimuro

Among the Skyscrapers: Henry Blake Fuller’s Chicago Novels

By Joseph Dimuro

Letter of Recommendation for NYT Mag on Hot Cheetos and Growing up in LA

By Summer Kim Lee

Ali Behdad Explores Photographic Constructs

Barbara Fuchs Awarded Ñ Prize for Notable Work in Promoting Spanish Language and Culture

Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

By Barbara Fuchs

Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West

By Blake Allmendinger

Yogita Goyal’s Book, Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Receives Distinguished Prizes

Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss

By Jenny Sharpe

Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance

Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton

Exhaust All Poisons

Reminiscences of poetry and the internet.

By Brian Stefans

The Fire Files

A personal narrative about living through the Woolsey fire and its aftermath in the Malibu canyons.

By Claire McEachern

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.

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood.

By Yogita Goyal

Book from Professor Michael Rothberg: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject.

By Michael Rothberg

Professor Emeritus Frederick Burwick’s A History of Romantic Literature

Historical narrative offers introduction to romanticism by placing key figures in overall social context

By Frederick Burwick

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure by Robert Watson

UCLA English Award Winning Faculty Projects

Professor Marissa López selected as one of six faculty members to receive the inaugural Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars.

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

Allegories of the Anthropocene

by Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Volpone

Revised Edition by Ben Jonson; Edited by Robert Watson

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

Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages

by Arvind Thomas

Marissa López, English Associate Professor, named one of first-ever Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow

Professor López's project is a collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles Public Library to bring Mexican America to life

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

The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England

The Consolation and Its Afterlives Edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver

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.

Joseph Bristow wins the Distinguished Teacher Award for Senate Faculty

Michelle Huneven wins 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts

Allison Carruth receives $15,000 UCLA Arts Initiative Grant

Distinguished Research Professor H.A. Kelly receives Constantine Panunzio Award

David Wong Louie’s personal essay selected for “The Best American Essays 2018”

Karen Cunningham and Dana Cairns Watson receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Elizabeth DeLoughrey receives UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship & Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellowship

Eleanor Kaufman receives UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship & Guggenheim Fellowship

“Urban Ark Los Angeles” Documentary

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

Nineteenth-Century Literature Journal

Welcome

Nineteenth-Century Literature is a quarterly journal devoted to the study of all literary genres of the era. By virtue of the range and quality of its coverage, its longevity, and indeed its substantial subscription, NCL is justly regarded as the preeminent periodical in its field.

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

By Stacie Cassarino

Still Modernism

Photography, Literature, Film By Louise Hornby

The Book of Ephraim

By James Merrill, Edited by Stephen Yenser

Satan

A Biography By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Embodied Avatars

Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan

Civic Longing

The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship By Carrie Hyde

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture

Edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith

Literature and Food Studies

By Allison Carruth and Amy Tigner

Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood

Edited by Joseph Bristow

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Second Edition Edited by Claire McEachern

Blood Royal

A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris By Eric Jager

Urban Tumbleweed

Notes from a Tanka Diary By Harryette Mullen

Casebook

A Novel By Mona Simpson

The Poetics of Piracy

Emulating Spain in English Literature By Barbara Fuchs

The Official World

By Mark Seltzer

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder

By Sarah Tindal Kareem

The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature

Edited by Yogita Goyal

Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton

Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery By Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell

Making England Western

Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture By Saree Makdisi

The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies By Rachel C. Lee

A History of California Literature

Edited by Blake Allmendinger

Stone Fruit

Poems By Stephen Yenser

The Middle English Bible

A Reassessment By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Utopia, Limited

Romanticism and Adjustment By Anahid Nersessian

Sodomscapes

Hospitality in the Flesh By Lowell Gallagher

Uri McMillan Wins the Erroll Hill Award for his work “Embodied Avatars”

Imagining Extinction

The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species By Ursula K. Heise

After Critique

Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age By Mitchum Huehls

Play the LA River

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

Camera Orientalis

Reflections on Photography of the Middle East. By Ali Behdad

Chinese American Literature without Borders

Gender, Genre, and Form By King-Kok Cheung