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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...

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.