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- 5/15/08 (Thur)
Professor Richard Yarborough discusses The Street by Ann Petry
4:00PM until 5:30PM
In 193 Humanities Building
UCLA Department of English Professor Richard Yarborough was featured on the PBS American Masters special “Novel Reflections on the American Dream” that showcased 20th- century authors and the novels that illuminate society's inequities, limitations and heartbreaks. Ann Petry's The Street recounts the tale of Lutie Johnson whose downfall is due to her inability to understand the reality of race in America and her belief that anyone can achieve wealth through hard work.Professor Yarborough teaches African American literature and 19th- and 20-century American fiction. He is also a Faculty Research Associate with UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, which he directed for six years. The recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, he has been recognized as an Outstanding Faculty Member by the African Student Union in 1997 and he has received commendations from the City of Los Angeles (1990) and the County of Los Angeles (1991). He has published extensively on African American literature, and he is the Associate General Editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature (5th ed., 2006). Since 1988 he has been the editor of The Library of Black Literature reprint series published by the University Press of New England.
-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact friends@english.ucla.edu- 5/16/08 (Fri)
UCLA 19th Annual Southland Graduate Student Conference: Genre Matters
In Faculty Center - Sequoia Room
Panels of graduate students from across the country will consider Yale University Professor Wai Chee Dimock's observation that “far from being a neat catalog of what exists and what is to come, genres are a vexed attempt to deal with material that might or might not fit into that catalog.” This suggestion invites scrutiny into the materials that compose genres and the genres that compose materials.Presentations will address various dimensions of the relationship between genre and materiality. UCLA Department of English Professors Lowell Gallagher and Yogita Goyal will be the keynote speakers.
-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact genrematters@gmail.com- 5/17/08 (Sat)
Annual Shakespeare Symposium
In Royce 314
Organized by Professor Bruce Smith (USC). Complete program to be announced.-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)
For more information, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu- 5/22/08 (Thur)
Hammer Poetry Series - Frank Bidart
7:00PM until 8:30PM
In Hammer Museum
Frank Bidart’s most recent volumes of poems are Star Dust (2005), Music Like Dirt (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002), and Desire (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997). His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series.In 2007, Frank Bidart received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. His other honors include election to the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace- Reader’s Digest Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award given by the Poetry Society of America, and the inaugural Bernard F. Connors Prize from The Paris Review in 1981. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
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