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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]