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Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Dr. Sami Schalk, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk will provide a brief history of the National Black Women’s Health Project and analyze how the organization articulated and enacted Black disability politics within their Black feminist health activism. This talk is excerpted from the book Black Disability Politics which explores Black activist and cultural worker engagement with disability as a political and social issue. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Dr. Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department....

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Jian Neo Chen, associate professor of queer studies in the departments of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Chen will share their reflections on reading contemporary trans* literature during the ongoing racial gender/sex wars. Their talk will offer some initial thoughts on the politics, aesthetics, and science of trans* auto- writing and theory spanning the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Summer Kim Lee, assistant professor in UCLA’s English Department. This event is free and...

The Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading (ERR) Author Series is pleased to present a book talk and reading with Tara Ison. UCLA Department of English alum Tara Ison will read from her recent novel, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and discuss writing, publishing, identity, and more! At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, a recent addition to the Shari Levitt Memorial Collection, is the story of a twelve-year-old Parisian Jewish girl in World War II France, living “in hiding” as a Catholic orphan with a family in a small village. Tara Ison is the author of the...

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...