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Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Carmen E. Lamas, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. The Spanish-language textbook is a much overlooked and even maligned nineteenth-century genre, yet it is of upmost importance for understanding US American literature in the nineteenth century. Composed mainly by Latina/o authors these textbooks are not monomodal pedagogical devices: they are integral to US American literary history, and their Latina/o origins and legacies can be traced to the present day. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Marissa López, Professor of English and...

Join UCLA English for a conversation featuring Carmen E. Lamas, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Lamas will be in conversation with UCLA English and Chicana/o Studies Professor Marissa López to discuss the temporal, geographic, ideological, and speculative archives that emerge from the study of nineteenth-century Latina/o texts and how these texts invite scholars to navigate and imagine different methodological approaches and archival formations. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Professor López. Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. Carmen E. Lamas is...

Join UCLA English for our Kanner Forum featuring Dr. Craig Santos Perez. In this presentation, Dr. Craig Santos Perez will discuss his in-progress monograph, Pacific Islander Eco-Poetics: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Justice, and Literary Activism, as well as his creative, editorial, and pedagogical work related to the Environmental Humanities in the Pacific. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by UCLA English Professor Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne. Register here to attend. This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the event. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from Guam. He holds an...

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki from Drawn & Quarterly will discuss their new graphic novel, Roaming. Books will be available for purchase following the event.

Join UCLA English for a book discussion and reception to celebrate Professor Justin Torres and his new novel, Blackouts. Blackouts is a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and has been named A Most Anticipated Read by The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, and Publishers Weekly. Register here to attend the event. Creative writing colleagues Fred D’Aguiar, Mona Simpson and Xuan Juliana Wang will lead the discussion. Light refreshments will follow the event. Please join us to celebrate Justin and his new work! Synopsis:...

This talk joins in the recent resurgence of critical interest in the mid-century international movement known as Concrete Poetry. Using research in cognitive science, Jessica Luck shows how many concrete poems work to expose and confound the brain’s letterbox and other tools that lie at the foundation of our ability to read. The talk is derived from chapter four of Jessica Luck’s new book Poetics of Cognition: Thinking through Experimental Poems (Iowa Press, 2023). Register here to attend. Jessica Luck is department chair and professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

This seminar is centered around a work-in-progress book chapter exploring impairment and disability in early medieval England, as well as an accompanying case study on the Lives of St Guthlac of Crowland. The seminar will be a chance to offer feedback on the piece and to discuss the insights the field of disability studies has to offer scholars of the early Middle Ages. Register here to attend. Professor Batten will also deliver an afternoon lecture at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193. See event details here: Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic. Both events are co-sponsored...

What does it mean, culturally speaking, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own bodies and about the place of humanity in a hostile world – deconstructing cultural anxieties and fantasies around the idea of an individuated, embodied self. Register here to attend. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Erica Weaver, assistant professor...

Artist and technologist Erik Loyer shares his practice of digital instrument-making, and the ways in which he draws from comics, games, music, and film to make art, tell stories, and build creative tools. Loyer will explore how approaching each interaction as an invitation extended by the user — whether on the web, mobile, or in virtual reality — can help to shake up how we think about digital storytelling. Register here to attend. Erik Loyer (he/him) makes digital artworks and creative tools that combine elements of comics and video games with musical performance. Through his studio Opertoon, Loyer has released...