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  • Snelson's book cover, 'The Little Database' along with Lee's 'A Little Spoiled' book cover.

    “A Little Spoiled” Featuring Summer Kim Lee and Danny Snelson

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    All are welcome to join us for a co-book launch and roundtable to celebrate the release of Summer Kim Lee’s Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair and Danny Snelson’s The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats. The event will feature roundtable presentations by special guests (TBA), author responses, and a range of open conversations […]

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    Tea and Conversation: Jean Strouse

    Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, Kaplan Hall 235 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Jean Strouse Jean Strouse will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to […]

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    Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse

    Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

    In her newest publication Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, award-winning author Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family. Family Romance looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these […]

  • Meat grinder against text stating title of event, Summer Kim Lee on Spoiled.

    Seminar with Summer Kim Lee: On Spoiled

    Kaplan Hall 250 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Please join us for the Asian American Reading Group’s winter seminar featuring Summer Kim Lee. Summer Kim Lee will discuss her new book, Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (Duke University Press, 2025). The seminar will take place on Thursday, January 29 from 3:30-5:00 pm in Kaplan Hall, room 250. Email Katarina (kyuan3@g.ucla.edu) if […]

  • Florence Duomo pictured at sunset.

    Info Session: Summer Travel Study in Florence

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Led by Professor Christopher Looby Summer Travel Study: Florence Focuses on American Writers and artists abroad. Fulfills two required courses for English and American Lit majors. Open to students in all other majors for upper-div credit. Seats still available for summer 2026! Upcoming Info Session: 1/29 at 4pm in Kaplan 193 or via Zoom  

  • Medieval Texts Reading Group

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. On the third Friday of each term, we meet to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages and consider what it tells us about its cultural and literary context. Each discussion will […]

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    ARC with Chris Looby (UCLA)

    Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

    Chris Looby, “Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the ‘bad books’ controversy.”