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May 14, 2013

José E. Muñoz to Deliver Annual Kubal Lecture

Dr. José E. Muñoz, Chair of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will deliver the . . . more info

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May 9, 2013

Wanda Coleman to Deliver 28th Annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading

Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman will deliver the 28th annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading at CSULA on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. in the Golden Eagle Ballroom  ... more info

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November 28, 2012

Luis Alberto Ambroggio

Luis Alberto Ambroggio will speak on "Poetry without Borders: U.S. Poetry in Latin America/Hispanic Poetry in the U.S." on . . . more info

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November 14-15, 2012

Margaret Hermes

Margaret Hermes will be a visiting writer at CSULA on November 14-15. Her visit . . . more info

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October 25, 2012

Drumvoices with Eugene Redmond

Eugene B. Redmond, Emeritus Professor of English and Founding Editor of Drumvoices Revue, will read from his works and participate in a critical conversation at CSULA . . . more info

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May 17, 2012

Douglas Mao to Deliver 2012 Kubal Lecture

Dr. Douglas Mao of Johns Hopkins University will deliver the David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture ... more

 
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May 12, 2012

R. Radhakrishnan, Significations Keynote Speaker

The English Graduate Student Association is presenting its 17th annual research conference, Significations, which will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012 ... more

 

May 4-5, 2012

2012 Conference on Carlos Fuentes: Ancient Mexico, Modernity, and the Literary Avant-Garde (May 4-5, 2012) ... more

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Apr 9, 2012

British Council Poet Anthony Joseph Returns to CSULA ...  more

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Apr 9, 2012

Filemón Beltrán Morales Reads Zapotec-language poetry at CSULA ...  more

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Mar 1, 2012

Public Poetry Project: Reading Milton's Paradise Lost ... more

 

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Feb 13, 2012

Dr. John Sullivan to Speak on Nahuatl Language Project

Dr. John Sullivan, Professor of Nahua Language and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, will be speaking about  the 2012 IDIEZ Nahuatl Summer Institute at Cal State L.A. ... more

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Jan 30, 2012

Rhina Espaillat to Deliver 27th Annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading

Poet and translator Rhina Espaillat will deliver the 27th annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading at CSULA on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in the Golden Eagle Ballroom  ... more

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Oct 31, 2011

Public Poetry Project: Reading Byron's Don Juan ... more

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October 19, 2011

Nii Ayikwei Parkes Returns to CSULA

Nii Ayikwei Parkes, British Council UK Writer-in-Residence at CSULA, will be returning in October, 2011 for a series of workshops and readings. ... more

May 13-14, 2011

2011 Conference on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Her Work, Colonial Mexico, and Spain’s Golden Age ... more

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May 2, 2011

Alan Liu to Deliver Annual Kubal Lecture

Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will deliver the David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture ... more

Apr 30, 2011

Joshua Clover, Significations Keynote Speaker

The English Graduate Student Association is presenting its 16th annual research conference, Significations,  ... more

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Apr 26, 2011

Vikram Seth to Deliver Jean Burden Poetry Reading

On Tuesday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Golden Eagle Ballroom, Vikram Seth will deliver the 26th annual  ... more

Feb 12-13, 2011

2011 Conference on Modernity, Critique, and Humanism ... more

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Oct 28, 2010

Public Poetry Project: Reading Wordsworth's 1805 Prelude ... more

Oct 10-11, 2010

Update on the Latino Book and Family Festival: Largest Gathering of Latino Authors in the West! ... more

May 20, 2010

60th Anniversary Statement Launch ... more

Apr 24, 2010

Eric Avila to Speak at Significations Graduate Student Conference ... more

Apr 1, 2010

Statement 60th anniversary to feature Helena Maria Viramontes ... more

Feb 25, 2010

Wendy Cope to Read in Burden Poetry Series ... more

 

Jan 28, 2010

Susan Green to Deliver 2010 Kubal Lecture ... more

 

Oct 10-11, 2009

Latino Book and Family Festival ... more

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Oct 6, 2009

Grad Orientation and Reception

The English Department invites ... more

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May 30, 2009

Statement Magazine 2009 Launch Party ... more

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May 21, 2009

Siddique Book Launch and Poetry Reading ... more

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May 18-Jun 12, 2009

John Siddique, CSULA 2009 British Council USA UK Writer in Residence

John Siddique will be the British Council UK Writer-in-Residence at CSULA from Monday, May 18 ... more

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May 15-16, 2009

Cal State L.A. 2009 Conference on Mesoamerica

Continuity and Change in Mesoamerican History from the Pre-Classic to the Colonial Era ... more

May 9, 2009

Michael North to Address Significations, Grad Student Conference

The English Graduate Student Association at CSU Los Angeles is happy to announce ... more

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April 7, 2009

Jean Burden Reading to Feature Victor Hernández Cruz

Victor Hernández Cruz will be the guest reader at the 2009 Jean Burden Poetry Reading. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 6:30pm ... more

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Feb 24-25, 2009

Sesshu Foster to Visit CSULA
Feb 24-25, 2009

Writer and teacher Sesshu Foster will be in residence at Cal State LA on February 24-25, 2009. His visit is ... more

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Feb 4, 2009

A Conversation with Dr. Lauri Ramey

Dr. Lauri Ramey of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at Cal State L.A. will discuss ... more

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Jan 22, 2009

V. A. Kolve to Deliver Annual Kubal Memorial Lecture

V. A. Kolve, renowned Chaucer scholar and distinguished professor emeritus at UCLA, will deliver the David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture ... more

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January 20-21, 2009

Vanessa Richards, Visiting Poet

The multi-talented Afro-Canadian poet-performer-songwriter-filmmaker Vanessa Richards will be the next visiting artist ... more

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November 10, 2008

Dima Hilal Poetry Reading

Dima Hilal will read her poetry at Cal State LA in November 2008. Her visit is made possible by the ... more

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Nov 2008

Seni Seneviratne to Visit CSULA

Seni Seneviratne will be in residence at Cal State LA during the first week in November 2008. Seneviratne's ... more

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April 19, 2008

Shirley Geok-lin Lim to Speak at CSU Grad Conference

The CSU Graduate Student Conference, Significations, will take place on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at CSULA. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Shirley Geok-lin Lim ... more

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April 2008

A. B. Spellman, Poet and Jazz Critic, to Visit CSULA

A. B. Spellman will visit CSULA in April 2008, offering discussions on poetry and jazz and signing copies of his poetry collection ... more

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April 2, 2008

Adrienne Rich to Read in Burden Series

Adrienne Rich will be the guest reader at the 2008 Jean Burden Poetry Reading. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 6:30pm ... more

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Jan 7-Feb 1, 2008

Lemn Sissay, CSULA British Council USA UK Writer in Residence

Lemn Sissay will be the British Council UK Writer-in-Residence at CSULA from Monday, January 7  to Friday, February 1, 2008 ... more

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Nov. 7-8, 2007

Marisela Norte, East LA Writer and Artist, To Visit 

Marisela Norte, East Los Angeles based writer and artist, will be inresidence at Cal State LA November 7-8, 2007. Norte's visit is .... more

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Oct. 3, 2007

Cal State LA, British Council Host Black Watch Conference

Cal State LA will host a three-way videoconference that will allow students and professors at Cal State LA, Royal Holloway University of London, and the University of Glasgow ... more

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September 27, 2007

Editor, Writers to Present Story Collection

On Thursday, September 27, poet and editor Nii Ayikwei Parkes will host readings from and a discussion of x-24: unclassified . ... more

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August 9, 2007

Brian Leung to Read, Sign New Novel

Brian Leung will be reading from his new novel, Lost Men, on Thursday August 9 at 6:10 p.m. in SH E 184 ... more

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April 26, 2007

Robert N. Watson to Deliver Kubal Lecture

Robert N. Watson, an internationally recognized English Renaissance scholar and a Professor of English at UCLA, will deliver the ... more 

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April 21, 2007

John Sutherland to Deliver Significations Keynote

The keynote speaker for Significations, the 12th annual CSU graduate student conference, will be Professor John Sutherland, the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London ... more 

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April 11, 2007

Andrew Motion to Read at Jean Burden

Andrew Motion, the current Poet Laureate of England, will be the guest reader at the 2007 Jean Burden Poetry Reading. The event will take place on ... more

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Mar 26-Apr 20, 2007

Nii Parkes, CSULA British Council USA UK Writer in Residence

Nii Ayikwei Parkes will be the British Council USA UK Writer-in-Residence at CSULA from Monday, March 26 to Friday, April 20 ... more

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Feb 5, 2007

Local African American Writers to Speak at Black History Month Event

 

The English Department is co-sponsoring with the Cross Cultural Center an evening of readings by and conversations with Jenoyne Adams and Michael Datcher, two local African American authors ... more

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Nov 9, 2006

Obadikes in Multimedia Performance

Keith and Mendi Lewis Obadike give a multimedia performance at 6:30pm on Thursday, November 9, with other appearances to be  ... more

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May 20, 2006

James Kincaid Keynote Speaker at CSU Grad Conference 

The Department of English at CSU Los Angeles has announced that the CSU Graduate Student Conference, Significations . . . more

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May 17, 2006

Dolores Kendrick at CSULA

Dolores Kendrick, the poet laureate of Washington D.C., will be in residence at Cal State LA in May 2006. Kendrick's visit . . . more

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April 19-20, 2006

Yunte Huang at CSULA

Yunte Huang will be in residence at CSULA in April 2006. Huang's visit is made possible by the Virginia E. Smith . . . more

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March 4, 2006

Visiting Poet Rommi Smith in Tribute to New Orleans 

"Boats, Blues and Hurricanes," a performance of music, poetry and dance featuring Rommi Smith with special guests James Ford of the Luckman Jazz Orchestra and . . . more

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March 2, 2006

Rita Dove to Appear in  Burden Series

Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American Poet Laureate of the United States, is scheduled to be the guest reader at . . . more

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Starting Feb 20, 2006

Rommi Smith, British Council USA UK Writer in Residence

Rommi Smith will be the British Council USA UK Writer in Residence at CSULA from February 20, 2006 through . . . more

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Feb-Apr, 2006

Dreams Fulfilled Series at Huntington

The African American Culture and Arts Series at the Huntington Library consists of six programs that will run from February through April 2006 . . . Adobe Acrobat logo more

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February 7, 2006

Panel to Focus on Race and Gender in African American Studies (February 7, 2006)

The 2nd Annual CSULA African American Academic Panel is scheduled for Tuesday, February 7, from 1:30pm . . . more

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Jan, 26, 2006

Anthony Arthur to Discuss Upton Sinclair in Kubal Memorial Lecture

Anthony Arthur, author and professor at California State University, Northridge, will present the . . . more

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Oct 27, 2005

Bakari Kitwana to Speak on Race and Hip Hop 

The English Department in conjunction with the Cross Cultural Centers will present an afternoon with Bakari Kitwana . . . more

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Oct 13, 2005

Director Kevin Willmott to Discuss Film 

The English Department in conjunction with the Cross Cultural Centers will screen CSA: The Confederate States of America on Thursday . . . more

May 23, 2005

Workshops for Graduate Student Job Seekers

Graduate students interested in exploring teaching opportunities are invited to two events on Monday . . . more

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May 21, 2005

Statement 2005 Launch Party at Fine Arts Gallery . . . more

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May 14, 2005

Harryette Mullen, Keynote Speaker at Graduate Student Conference

Harryette Mullen is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at Significations, the graduate student conference . . . more

May 11, 2005

Two English Faculty to Present at ACP 

Michelle Hawley and Lauri Ramey of the English Department will be featured speakers at Re-mapping “American” Community: Representing Bodies, Space, and Place . . . more

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May 1-2, 2005

Juan Felipe Herrera in Residence at CSULA

Juan Felipe Herrera will be in residence at Cal State LA at the beginning of May. Herrera's visit is made . . . more

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April 21, 2005

Linton Kwesi Johnson to Appear in Burden Series

Linton Kwesi Johnson, founder of "dub" poetry and called the first reggae poet, will be the guest reader/artist . . . more

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April 2005

Anthony Joseph to be British Council UK Wirter-in-Residence

Anthony Joseph will be the British Council USA UK Writer-in-Residence at CSULA during April 2005. Joseph, a Trinidadian poet and novelist . . . more

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Jan 27, 2005

Arthur F. Kinney to Give Kubal Memorial Lecture in January

Renaissance scholar Arthur F. Kinney will present the David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture on Thursday . . . more

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November 22-23, 2004

Visiting Poet Giovanni Singleton to Present a Reading, Lecture and Workshop

Award-winning poet Giovanni Singleton has been invited to California State University, Los Angeles, as a guest reader . . . more

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November 11, 2004

Cal State L.A. Hosts Reading by Fiction Writer Douglas Unger

Acclaimed fiction writer Douglas Unger will read from his new collection of short stories, Looking for War . . . more

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