English Department

Executive Committee Meeting
2026-05-08 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA

Faculty Meeting
2026-05-08 10:00 - 12:00 | CA

Undergraduate Committee Meeting
2026-05-08 13:00 - 14:00 | CA

2026 Academic Conference for English Students (ACES)
2026-05-08 13:00 - 18:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join us for our annual Academic Conference for English Students!
ACES 14th Annual Conference
Friday, May 8 at 1 pm – 6 pm
Kaplan Hall 193
Zoom livestream link here.
The full conference schedule is now available: ACES 2026 Conference Program.
The Academic Conference for English Students provides a collaborative forum for students of literature to give oral presentations of their research and creative work. The event is held annually during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week.

Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, Book Talk by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
2026-05-12 14:30 - 16:00 | Founders’ Room, James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join us Tuesday (5/12) for a book talk by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Organized by the Department of American Indian Studies (DAIS) as part of its Special Speaker Series, this event will highlight her recent Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (2025). Book sales and signing to follow the talk.
Questions about the event?
Visit the UCLA American Indian Studies Center for full details.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic. She is the author of eight books, including As We Have Always Done (winner of the NAISA subsequent book prize) and the novel Noopiming which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Dublin Literary Prize. Her collaboration with Robyn Maynard, Rehearsals for Living is a National Best Seller and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Leanne’s new work, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston prize for non-fiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. Leanne is also a musician. Her latest release Live Like the Sky is out now from You’ve Changed Records. Theory of Ice (2021) was named to the Polaris Prize short list, and she was the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award, presented to a Canadian trailblazer who has demonstrated excellence within the music video production community. Leanne holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation.

Book Launch: Upward Bound by Woody Brown
2026-05-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join UCLA Department of English to celebrate the publication of UCLA alum Woody Brown’s debut novel, Upward Bound.
Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event.
The reading will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson, Professor of English at UCLA.
Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles’s disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister, Mariana; Jorge, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy who pines for Ann, the summer lifeguard at the center’s pool who feels out of her depth. Then there’s Dave, Upward Bound’s director, who came to L.A. to pursue an acting career but now channels his passion into staging an overly ambitious holiday show starring the center’s irrepressible clients. Framing these intertwined narratives—and connecting them in surprising, shattering ways—is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter, a recent community college graduate who, after a family tragedy, must return to the company of his disabled peers.
In Upward Bound, Woody Brown has created an indelible, authentic, and profoundly moving group portrait of autism and other disabilities, all illuminated by his empathy, sly sense of humor, and enormous gifts as a novelist. With remarkable sophistication, insight, and creativity, Brown depicts a community too-often invisible in literature and society. Filled with characters you won’t soon forget, Upward Bound will inspire and touch you, teaching you as much about yourself as the tender, miraculous world behind the center’s doors.
Woody Brown is an author who has minimal speech and types to communicate. He is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, where he received top writing honors. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in 2024. Upward Bound, his debut novel, is a Read With Jenna book club pick, and was named a Most Anticipated title by The New York Times, Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Alta Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Literary Hub. He was featured in The New York Times and The Guardian. He lives in Los Angeles and is working on a second novel.
Questions about the event?
Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Jameson in California, and Beyond
2026-05-15 13:00 - 19:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Jameson in California – and Beyond
Friday, May 15 at 1:00-7:00 pm
Kaplan Hall 193
This day-long event will focus on Fredric Jameson’s intellectual, educational, and now archival legacy and engagement in California, and beyond. The conference will feature scholarly papers, personal reflections, archival updates, and multimedia works.
Register here to attend. An RSVP is required for catering purposes.
Conference Sponsors: Program in Experimental Critical Theory, UCLA Departments of English, Political Science, European Languages and Transcultural Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Comparative Literature
Conference Organizer: Eleanor Kaufman
1 pm: Aditya Bahl, UCLA, “Greimas avec Mao: Periodizing the Periphery”
Introduced and moderated by Mary Shannon, UCLA
2 pm: Jason E. Smith, ArtCenter College of Design, “Demographies of the Postmodern”
Introduced and moderated by Joseph Serrano, UC Berkeley
3 pm: Archives and Students
Audra Eagle Yun, UC Irvine, University Archivist
Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA
Saree Makdisi, UCLA
Anjali Prabhu, UCLA
Introduced and moderated by Davide Panagia, UCLA
4:30 pm: Eric Cazdyn, University of Toronto, “Jameson as Blindspot Machine”
Introduced and moderated by Nouri Gana, UCLA
5:30 pm: Kim Stanley Robinson, UC San Diego PhD, “Professor Jameson”
Introduced and moderated by Ursula Heise, UCLA
Questions about the event?
Contact the event coordinators: Lisset Cadena, Comparative Literature; Marta Wallien, English

Spring Reception
2026-05-17 16:00 - 19:00 | CA

5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
2026-05-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2026-05-20 09:00 - 10:45, 2026-05-20 13:00 - 15:45, 2026-05-21 09:00 - 13:45, 2026-05-21 15:00 - 15:45 | Kaplan Hall 126A, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join us for the 5th Annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium!
Dates/Times/Location
Tuesday, May 19 – Thursday, May 21 in 126A Kaplan Hall
Tuesday, 2 to 4:45 pm
Wednesday, 9 to 10:45 am and 1 to 3:45 pm
Thursday, 9 am to 1:45 pm and 3 to 3:45 pm
The full panel schedule is available here.
About the Colloquium
UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English are thrilled to invite you to our fifth annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2026. In a series of 45-minute panels across three days, students from the Professional Writing Minor will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. Fifty-six students will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range, depth, and individualized paths possible within the Professional Writing Minor. From astronaut hearts to queer horror, birthright citizenship to Los Angeles nightlife, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including memoirs, websites, zines, research articles, and more. The colloquium is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served, and a short Q&A will follow each panel. Friends, family, faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers and soon-to-be graduates share their insights and discoveries.
The PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp26 by Writing Programs faculty, Drs. Amber West, Maja Manojlovic, Laurel Westrup, Megan Stephan, and Ms. Rachel Swanger.
Questions about the event?
Visit UCLA Writing Programs for full details.
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” -Joan Didion

Hammer Poetry Series: A.E. Stallings
2026-05-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
A.E. Stallings, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, has published five volumes of poems (most recently This Afterlife), as well as distinguished translations of Lucretius, Hesiod, and the pseudo-Homeric Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Her new book Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon, is as edifying and entertaining as a son et lumière of its venerable subject. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker.
Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Stephen Yenser. Cosponsored by UCLA Department of English and UCLA Recreation.
Questions about the event?
Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.

2026 Spring Athenaeum
2026-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
2026 Spring Athenaeum
Wednesday, May 20 at 4-6pm in Kaplan 193
Featuring Presenters Enrique Olivares-Pesante and Jonathan Grossman, with Yogita Goyal as Respondent.
Please join us in Kaplan 193 for scholarship, refreshments, & conversation.
The Athenaeum brings together one dissertation-stage graduate student and one faculty member to present their research, providing a venue for grad student and faculty research to be in conversation with one another. The hope is to generate collegiality and dialogue across the department, spanning historical periods and methodological approaches. Please join us for conversation and refreshments as we celebrate the wonderful research of our colleagues!

The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep
2026-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers will address the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represented the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson, the ocean was a teacher, agent, and ancestor carried in our briny veins.
This panel will engage a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship, the history and science behind the contamination, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep.
Presenters
Lihini Aluwihare, Professor, UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tina Orduno Calderon, Culture bearer of the Tongva, Chumash and Yoeme Indigenous People
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor, UCLA Department of English and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Alissa C. Deming, Vice President of Conservation Medicine and Science, Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Rebeca Méndez, artist and professor, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Tina Treude, Professor, UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Rev. Adelia Sandoval, Spiritual leader of the Acjachemen Indigenous People
David Valentine, Distinguished Professor, UCSB Department of Earth Science
Rosanna Xia, investigative journalist at the Los Angeles Times
Questions about the event?
Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.

ARC with Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and 2025-26 Van Dyck Chair, UCLA)
2026-05-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
“Ambivalence and the Politics of Form: Literary Experiment and the Question of Representation, 1970-2000.”

Memory, Madness, and Messianism: Thinking with My Father, the Messiah by Gil Z. Hochberg
2026-05-21 17:00 - 18:30 | Rolfe Hall 2125, 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She discusses her new memoir in conversation with UCLA colleagues, Hannah Jakobsen (Comp Lit), Rachel Lee (English/Gender Studies/Institute of Society & Genetics) & Michael Rothberg (English/Comp Lit).
Sponsored by the Working Group in Memory Studies & the Abolition Medicine & Disability Justice Project.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women/ Barbra Streisand Center, the UCLA Departments of Gender Studies, Comparative Literature and English; UCLA Division of Humanities & the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
* Pay-by-space parking available in Lot Five (Level Six) and Lot Three.

Out of Plain Sight
2026-05-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist Rosanna Xia.
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.
Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovers a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean—and the consequences continue to haunt the world today.
2024, Dir. Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia, DCP, color, 94 min.

Questions about the event?
Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.

Medieval Texts Reading Group
2026-05-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
The UCLA Medieval Texts Reading Group welcomes undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty interested in medieval literature. Once each term, we get together to discuss a text in English translation from across the Global Middle Ages, to think about what it tells us about its cultural and literary context.
Each discussion will be led by an expert on the chosen text and its place in the wider medieval world. No expertise or preparation beyond a brief skim of the text is required – only enthusiasm!
For our Spring meeting this year, we will read Cædmon’s Hymn and some related texts. Discussion will be led by Professor Erica Weaver (English).
View the readings.
Sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.

Revelation Reading: Cymbeline, Refinished
2026-05-22 16:00 - 18:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join us for a screening of Cymbeline, Refinished, directed by Michael Sexton and produced by Red Bull Theater. This event is part of the Revelation Reading Series.
Cymbeline, Refinished
Friday, May 22nd
4:00 PM (approx. 2 hours 15 minutes)
Kaplan Hall 193
The reading will feature Shakespeare’s original play, with Shaw’s reimagined final act, giving us a seamless experience of the two singular geniuses.
Experience this powerful adaptation and join in brief discussions, with opportunities to connect with others after the screening.
Hosted by: Mayra Cortes, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department.

Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: On Disavowal
2026-05-26 12:30 - 14:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is required to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. Please RSVP at the link below.
Register here to attend the lectures and graduate workshop.
About the lectures:
Ancient speech acts like confession, disavowal, and testimony have strange afterlives in modern, secular culture. Smith’s lectures reflect on how we use these rituals and what kind of justice we want from them.
Event Schedule:
“On Disavowal”: Tuesday, May 26 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm.
“On Disavowal,” is an essay in the genealogy of morals, tracing the development of disavowal from religious and legal ceremonies through psychoanalysis to contemporary political rhetoric and critical theory.
Graduate Workshop: Wednesday, May 27 at 12:00pm. Lunch provided.
Graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Smith.
“Revenge Vows”: Thursday, May 28 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm.
“Revenge Vows,” takes up a case study from nineteenth-century American literature, Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” (1897), where a testifying voice becomes an instrument of binding punishment.
Caleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, where he teaches courses in American literature, cultural history, and critical theory. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009); The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press, 2013); and the first published edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House, 2016). His latest, Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture, appeared from Princeton University Press in 2023.
Questions about the events?
Contact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu

Graduate Lunch Workshop: Caleb Smith
2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join UCLA English on Tuesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 28 for the Barbara L. Packer lectures featuring Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. In addition to his formal lectures, Professor Smith will lead a graduate workshop on Wednesday, May 27. All events include a light lunch. An RSVP is required to attend the lectures and graduate workshop. Please RSVP at the link below.
Register here to attend the lectures and graduate workshop.
About the lecturers:
Ancient speech acts like confession, disavowal, and testimony have strange afterlives in modern, secular culture. Smith’s lectures reflect on how we use these rituals and what kind of justice we want from them.
Lectures and Graduate Workshop Schedule:
“On Disavowal”: Tuesday, May 26 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm.
“On Disavowal,” is an essay in the genealogy of morals, tracing the development of disavowal from religious and legal ceremonies through psychoanalysis to contemporary political rhetoric and critical theory.
Graduate Workshop: Wednesday, May 27 at 12:00pm. Lunch provided.
Graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Smith.
“Revenge Vows”: Thursday, May 28 at 12:30pm. A light lunch will be served at 12pm.
“Revenge Vows,” takes up a case study from nineteenth-century American literature, Charles Chesnutt’s “The Dumb Witness” (1897), where a testifying voice becomes an instrument of binding punishment.
Caleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, where he teaches courses in American literature, cultural history, and critical theory. His books include The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale University Press, 2009); The Oracle and the Curse (Harvard University Press, 2013); and the first published edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict (Random House, 2016). His latest, Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture, appeared from Princeton University Press in 2023.
Questions about the events?
Contact Marta Wallien: mwallien@english.ucla.edu

20/21 Working Group with John Lurz (Tufts University)
2026-05-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
The Barthes Fantastic: John Lurz in conversation with Louise Hornby
Wednesday, May 27 at 4:00 pm
Kaplan 193
John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life in the work of Roland Barthes. Doing so allows him to develop an expanded understanding of the fantastic as a conceptual category—a way of thinking—in which the texts we read come to inform the texture of our real lives.
RSVP: bit.ly/425BmDD

Packer Lecture with Caleb Smith: Revenge Vows
2026-05-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095

English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception
2026-05-29 17:00 - 19:00 | UCLA University Club, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
The English and Writing Programs Honors and Awards Reception will take place at the UCLA University Club in the Morrison room on Friday, May 29 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

Questions about the event?
Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager
mwallien@english.ucla.edu

Creative Writing Prose Reading
2026-06-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of spring quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday, June 2 at 5 PM in Kaplan 193.
Students from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends, grab some pizza and drinks, and enjoy the party. Everyone is welcome and invited!
Hope to see you there!

Honors Showcase
2026-06-04 12:00 - 16:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
You are cordially invited to the department’s upcoming honors showcase, to be held in Kaplan 193 on Thursday, June 4 from 12 noon – 4 pm.
Members of the graduating 2025-2026 departmental honors cohort will speak about the process of crafting their honors theses over the past year.
Please see the attached program for the full schedule: Honors Showcase Final Schedule_2026
Should you be unable to attend in-person, a Zoom livestream will also be available.

Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
2026-06-05 09:00 - 17:00, 2026-06-06 09:00 - 17:00 | UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90018
Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
Date/Time
Friday, June 5 – Saturday, June 6
9:00 am PDT – 5:00 pm PDT
Location
UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Liverpool John Moores University
A central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist, critic, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond.
The literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground for experimental modernism in Ireland, with the publication and staging of works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), John Millington Synge (1871–1909), and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celticist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins, however, can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes, feminists, queer artists, anarchists, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milieus in which Oscar Wilde moved. This conference will draw on the Clark Library’s imposing archive, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established, along with their interactions with traditions of Irish and, more broadly, American and European modernism.
Organized thematically around the materials held at the Clark Library, the conference’s opening panel will allow scholars to reflect upon important archives such as the More House Archive, the Pierre Louÿs Collection, and the Clark’s important fine press collection, which includes important material produced by the Cuala Press in Ireland (1908–1946). Besides these sources, the conference will address the library’s important collections of rare books, manuscripts (including the work of the Scottish anarchist and friend of Wilde’s, Thomas Hastie Bell), pamphlets, and ephemera relating to the interchanges between experimental writing and cultural expression of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The organizers: Deaglán Ó Donghaile, Reader in English at Liverpool John Moores University, is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, has published widely on Wilde’s life and works. His most recent monograph is Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale University Press, 2022). Currently, he is co-editing (with Yvonne Ivory and Rebecca N. Mitchell) two volumes of Wilde’s unfinished and miscellaneous writings (for Oxford University Press).
Speakers
Patrick Bixby, Arizona State University
Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kate Hext, University of Exeter and Ewha Womans University
Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina
Gregory Mackie, The University of British Columbia
Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University
Alex Murray, Queen’s University Belfast
Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame
Ana Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago

The conference is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required to watch the livestream.
Presentations will be recorded and made available on the Center’s YouTube Channel until December 7, 2026: youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs
Seating is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
Questions about the conference?
Visit The Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies for more information.
