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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.

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

Karen Cunningham and Dana Cairns Watson receive Distinguished Teaching Award

Still Modernism

Photography, Literature, Film By Louise Hornby

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

The Book of Ephraim

By James Merrill, Edited by Stephen Yenser

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

Satan

A Biography By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Civic Longing

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

Michelle Huneven wins 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture

Edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith

Allison Carruth receives $15,000 UCLA Arts Initiative Grant

Literature and Food Studies

By Allison Carruth and Amy Tigner

Embodied Avatars

Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan

Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood

Edited by Joseph Bristow

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Second Edition Edited by Claire McEachern

Joseph Bristow wins the Distinguished Teacher Award for Senate Faculty

Blood Royal

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

Casebook

A Novel By Mona Simpson

Urban Tumbleweed

Notes from a Tanka Diary By Harryette Mullen

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

Chinese American Literature without Borders

Gender, Genre, and Form By King-Kok Cheung

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

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

A History of California Literature

Edited by Blake Allmendinger

Camera Orientalis

Reflections on Photography of the Middle East. By Ali Behdad

Imagining Extinction

The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species By Ursula K. Heise

Play the LA River

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

After Critique

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

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