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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.”