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Penelope Pelizzon Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:00 pm Poetry Workshop with Stacie Cassarino All Events All News All EventsWelcome to English at UCLA Widely recognized as one of the leading departments in the nation, English at UCLA has long been known for its innovative research and excellence in teaching. Today, the English Department maintains its strong commitment to traditional areas of study, while also supporting groundbreaking research and teaching in new and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. Our Work My Body is Paper Edited by Rafael Pérez-Torres Environment and Narrative in Vietnam Co-edited by Ursula Heise The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature Edited by Yogita Goyal Blackouts By Justin Torres Commitment By Mona Simpson Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Siècle Culture Edited by Joseph Bristow For Trapped Things By Brian Kim Stefans Justin Torres’ Work Anthologized Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611 By Debora Shuger Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica By Jenny Sharpe Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature By Mitchum Huehls Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment By Joseph Bristow The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Edited by Christopher Looby Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction By Jonathan F.S. Post Awards Harryette Mullen named 2022 UCSC Humanities Division Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna Search By Michelle Huneven Publications Letters to America By Fred D’Aguiar Publications Year of Plagues. A Memoir of 2020 By Fred D’Aguiar Publications Willa Cather’s Queer Economy By Joseph Dimuro Publications Among the Skyscrapers: Henry Blake Fuller’s Chicago Novels By Joseph Dimuro Publications Letter of Recommendation for NYT Mag on Hot Cheetos and Growing up in LA By Summer Kim Lee Publications Ali Behdad Explores Photographic Constructs Awards Barbara Fuchs Awarded Ñ Prize for Notable Work in Promoting Spanish Language and Culture Publications Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic By Barbara Fuchs Publications Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West By Blake Allmendinger Awards Yogita Goyal’s Book, Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Receives Distinguished Prizes Elizabeth DeLoughrey Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship Publications Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss By Jenny Sharpe Publications Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton Publications Exhaust All Poisons Reminiscences of poetry and the internet. By Brian Stefans Publications The Fire Files A personal narrative about living through the Woolsey fire and its aftermath in the Malibu canyons. By Claire McEachern Activity City of God @ 25 UCLA English professors, Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres participate in panel to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Gil Cuadros’ City of God. City of God is rooted in the lived experience of its Angeleno author and is acknowledged to be among the first literary works to document AIDS through the eyes of a poz queer Latinx writer and artist. Justin Torres and Rafael Pérez-Torres Activity Navigating the Personal and the Literary Carmen Maria Machado’s forthcoming memoir, In the Dream House, focuses on queer domestic violence and dissects cultural representations of physical abuse. Machado discusses navigating the personal and the literary with novelist and UCLA professor, Justin Torres. Publications Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery Tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. By Yogita Goyal Publications Book from Professor Michael Rothberg: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. By Michael Rothberg Publications Professor Emeritus Frederick Burwick’s A History...