A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. “This is a book that makes a difference, not only in our grasp of human visuality but in all the mixed feelings of love and hate, attraction and repulsion, thought and feeling that make […]
Join the UCLA Americanist Research Colloquium (ARC) for a discussion of Maia Gil’Adí’s essay, “Wood, Cloth, Plaster: Marisol’s Surface Work.” Please email clooby@humnet.ucla.edu for a copy of the paper. In this essay, Maia Gil’Adí examines the work of Venezuelan artist Marisol to reconsider the relationship between material form, diaspora, and hemispheric politics. Gil’Adí argues that […]
“Because of slavery” is the correct answer to the question: Why did the slaveholding states go to war against the free states of the Union? MONUMENTS reckons with deceptive narratives implicit in the presentation of a defeated Confederacy—not as traitors and losers, but as objects of hero worship. The Old South lost the Civil War […]
Join UCLA Department of English for a poetry reading by Eugene Ostashevsky and Aditya Bahl, followed by a discussion with Danny Snelson about poetics, experiment, and politics. Light refreshments will be served. Eugene Ostashvesky is a Russian-American poet, translator, and critic who teaches at New York University. He is the author of numerous books of […]
UCLA Department of English presents a talk by Dr. Jonathan Howard, “Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness.” Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Uri McMillan, Professor of English at UCLA. Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant […]
UCLA English and The 20/21 Working Group Present: Spring Paper Workshop Feat. Michael Meagher Wednesday, May 6 at 4:00pm in Kaplan Hall 193 All are welcome for an informal discussion of Michael’s dissertation chapter on Edward Said’s memoir Out of Place, modernism, and postcolonial life writing. Snacks will be provided! RSVP: bit.ly/4sLiwxc
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 […]