OpportunitiesResearch Opportunities

Engaging in undergraduate research may help you prepare for graduate school and get the most out of your undergraduate experience. In addition to considering our departmental honors program, English & American Literature and Culture majors are encouraged to explore the resources and programs offered by the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences (URC-HASS.)

Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Offers workshops on cornerstones of research and research methods
Runs research scholarship programs such as Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and Research Revealed
Hosts advising sessions with Graduate Student Mentors
Administers the Student Research Program (SRP)
Hosts Undergraduate Research Week annually

To learn more, visit the URC-HASS website.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Dublin, Ireland: In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis

For the second year in a row UCLA’s Department of English is thrilled to announce a one-week all-expenses paid literary tour of Dublin and environs! Primed by reading appropriate excerpts of various Dublin authors, we’ll explore the city of Dublin and surroundings.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

London, England: Romanticism and the Age of Revolution

Discover the contemporary capital and recover hidden traces of the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The program studies London as the key site in an often overlooked urban Romanticism, featuring the work of William Wordsworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Keats, Hannah More, Mary Robinson, and a special focus on the art and poetry of William Blake.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Florence, Italy: American Writers and Artists Abroad

Trace the steps of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence. Novels and stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Constance Fenimore Woolson are studied, along with the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s great translation of the Florentine poet Dante’s Inferno.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Stratford-upon-Avon & London: Shakespeare

Experience Shakespeare’s plays as they were meant to be experienced, on the stage as well as the page, and in the company of his fellow dramatists, during a summer session spent in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, England. Students will be immersed in the study of multiple plays in performance, as mounted both on the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Globe Theater in Southwark, London.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

Mexico City: An American Crossroad

Mexico City is one of the world’s greatest metropoles, a vibrant blend of ancient and modern, as well as a major economic, political, and artistic driver of the hemisphere. Experience it for yourself while studying a flexible program of your own design that can satisfy major, diversity, GE, and language requirements.

SUMMER TRAVEL STUDY

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