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 […]
Chris Looby, “Revisiting Jonathan Edwards and the ‘bad books’ controversy.”
In conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung’s English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar All are welcome to attend a Cantonese Opera workshop (in conjunction with Professor King-Kok Cheung’s English 19.1 Fiat Lux seminar) on Friday, February 13 at 4-9pm in Kaplan A51. This event is scheduled to coincide with the visit of Professor Selina Lai-Henderson and MFA […]
Please join us in Royce 306 on Tuesday, February 17 at 4:00pm for Hannah Weaver’s talk, “The Medieval Philomela and Fabricated Communication.” On the basis of manuscript evidence and a textual tradition that includes Ovid, Chrétien de Troyes, and Chaucer, this paper traces the uneven capacity of cloth to communicate. This event is sponsored by […]
Attention English Department graduate students: You’re invited to join The Environmental Humanities Research Group’s (EHRG) February meeting at SIPP Coffee House on Westwood Blvd. The meeting will take place on February 19 at 10:30am. The group will discuss the introduction of “Pollution is Colonialism” by Max Liboiron. The group can share a PDF of the […]
Please join us in Hershey Salon on Thursday February 19th at 4 PM for Dr. Jina B. Kim’s talk on her new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing. This is one of the most highly anticipated books in disability studies this year! In Care at the End […]