2018-2019 Kanner Series When: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm Where: 193 Kaplan Hall — Raúl Coronado is a literary and intellectual historian. He’s an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, and is the author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture (Harvard 2013), winner of the MLA Best First...
2018-2019 Kanner Series When: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00pm Where: 193 Kaplan Hall — Jeffrey Masten has written influentially on the importance of sexuality-studies methods for reading early modern literature and culture. His books include Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge, 1997) and Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time (Penn, 2016, forthcoming in paperback),...
2018-2019 Packer Series When: Tuesday, April 16 & Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm Where: 193 Kaplan Hall — Jerome McGann from the University of Virginia will be the Barbara L Packer guest this year. On April 16th he will speak on “American Exceptionalism and the American Condition,” and on April 18th he will speak on “A Sacred American Text: Fact,...
2018-2019 Kanner Series When: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 4:00pm Where: 193 Kaplan Hall — Yopie Prins is Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Victorian Sappho (Princeton, 1999) and Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy (Princeton, 2017), and co-editor of The Lyric Theory Reader: A...
2018-2019 Kanner Series When: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 4:00pm Where: 193 Kaplan Hall — James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). Educated at the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are: Reform and...
Jana Prikryl’s No Matter guides the reader through cities—remembered and imagined—toppling past the point of decline and fall.In reactionary times, these poems say, we each have a responsibility to use our imagination. Prikryl is the author of The After Party, named by the New York Times one of the Best Poetry Books of 2016. Her poems have appeared...
The Beyond Salon will be a sparkling evening of words, music, food, wine, and wit. Join us in honoring our executive director emeritus Richard Modiano for his years of exemplary service to Beyond Baroque; the visionary poet and UCLA English professor Harryette Mullen for her outstanding achievements in poetry; Get Lit-Words Ignite founder and director Diane Luby Lane for her service to...
A conference to commemorate David Wong Louie’s writing and teaching legacy by bringing together scholars, writers, and student that were and continue to be influenced and inspired by Louie’s work. Internationally recognized as a literary pioneer in Chinese-American writing in several genres—novel, short story, and personal essay—Louie forged a powerfully eloquent voice that mapped with...
In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how Indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and...
One of America’s preeminent writers, Tobias Wolff is the author of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and the short-story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, The Night in Question, and Our Story Begins. His honors include...
Jorie Graham has authored numerous poetry collections, one of which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those whose last names are "ism" – are already doing that, and doing it...
Recently named a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar, celebrated British poet Karen McCarthy Woolf is currently poet-in-residence at the UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights. Described in The Poetry Review as ‘extraordinarily moving and technically flawless’, Karen McCarthy Woolf’s celebrated début An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the 2015 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First...
Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be Poet Laureate, has published nine books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN America Literary Award for creative nonfiction, the American Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for lifetime achievement, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American...
The Spanish-American Number: Travel, Translation, and the Literary History of Modernism Peter Hulme, University of Essex Mines, Minerals, Mimesis, and Memory Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University
TO BE RESCHEDULED FALL 2020 - CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor Susan Phillips (English, Northwestern University). What happens when the schoolmaster is banished from the early modern classroom? The popular vernacular textbooks that flooded the European market in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries posed precisely this question when they claimed—on title pages and in...
Kanner Lecture Series A Virtual Discussion on Crisis and Intervention Tuesday, October 26 at 4:00 p.m. PDT Online via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdeytqjsiGtEL6PmtHsz-bfjXigy3KkNT After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. What is the work of literature and of literary scholars in helping us understand the crises of our times as...