Join UCLA English for a reading featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Leanne will read from her new novel, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, released last year by the University of Minnesota Press. Leanne is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation.  She has released four albums including f(l)ight and Noopiming Sessions, and...

Join UCLA English for a conversation featuring Mary Pat Brady, Professor of Latinx Studies and Children’s Literature at Cornell University and author of Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child.  Professor Brady will be in conversation with Marissa López, Associate Graduate Dean and Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. Register for...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Elaine Kahn. Register for this event here. Elaine Kahn is the author of Women in Public (City Lights, 2015) and Romance or The End (Soft Skull, 2020). Writing has appeared in the LA Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Granta,...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Danielle Evans. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and...

Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her...

This event has been canceled. Join the Hammer, UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation in celebrating its long-standing poetry series for Poetry Month with the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Reading. This year’s judge is the distinguished poet Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 3 Sections, Poetry Editor for The Paris Review, and Director of non-fiction...

Saturday, April 30, 2022 9:30am to 10:30am PST (12:30pm to 1:30pm EST) Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97007181579 Please join us for this remote event to celebrate the publication of Professor Kathryn Kerby Fulton’s new book, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). Speakers: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University Misty Schieberle,...

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Michael K. Bourdaghs, the Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Exploring ideas from his recent book, A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (Duke University Press, 2021), Michael Bourdaghs will discuss how the fiction and...

Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...

Join UCLA English for the Barbara L. Packer Lectures featuring Yopie Prins, the Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Tuesday, May 17 at 5:00pm – 6:30pm PST: Anne Carson Sappho In If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002), Anne Carson famously uses brackets in her translations from...

Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Geoff Dyer. This event is followed by a reading at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm.Visit the Hammer Museum website for full details. Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local...

    Celebrated writer Geoff Dyer returns with The Last Days of Roger Federer, an extended meditation on late style and last works. Here Dyer reads from this latest collection, one of Esquire's best of spring 2022. Readings are followed by a discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Supported...

Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Claire Stanford, author and PhD candidate in English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Claire Stanford's fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Tin House Flash Fridays, Black Warrior Review,...

Join UCLA English for The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series featuring Michelle Huneven, Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing. Michelle Huneven is the author of five novels, including Round Rock (1996), Blame (2009) and her latest,...

Join UCLA English for "Unexceptional Blackness and Blind Matter," a talk featuring Matthew Vernon, associate professor of English Literature at the University of California, Davis. Professor Vernon will discuss Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's adaptation of Everyman as it relates to invisibilization of race. Professor Vernon will focus on the problems and possibilities this play raises in relation to...

Join UCLA’s Asian American Studies, Center for the Study of Women (CSW), UCLA Departments of English and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) for "Elemental Cartographies: Mapping Winds in Indigenous Economies of Abundance in an Era of Climate Change," featuring Candace Fujikane, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. As we bear witness...

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Kadji Amin, associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Professor Amin will present his new paper, “Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities,” forthcoming in “The Science of Sex Itself,” Special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. ...

A Creative Showcase and Discussion 3:30pm to 5:00pm at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center: Laureate Classroom Literary practitioners have expanded their interests to include video games, performance art and visual poetics. “Expanded media” is our catchall term for all of those spaces between common forms of “media” — TV shows, video games, networked culture —...