SEPTEMBER 13

The UCLA Department of English and the Friends of English invite you to an afternoon of conversation between

Dr. DAVID RODES  and
UCLA  School of Theater, Film & Television
Professor MICHAEL HACKETT

In anticipation of UCLA Live’s new production of MEDEA, Professors Hackett & Rodes will discuss Euripides’ classic about the passionate and destructive affair between the mortal Greek hero Jason and the mystical and exotic Medea.

Sunday,
September 13, 2009
at 3:00 PM
in 306 Royce Hall

MICHAEL HACKETT is a Professor of Directing and Theater History in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He has directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Royal Theatre at The Hague; the Centrum Sztuki Studio and Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Los Angeles Opera (children’s series); Musica Angelica; Geffen Playhouse and ten radio productions for the LA Theater Works NPR series The Play’s the Thing.

For three years, he taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where he wrote music for and directed classical Greek plays. He directed Sophocles’ PHILOKTETES with Henry Goodman for the Getty Villa Theater Lab and for many years he has conducted Greek Chorus workshops for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. With his Theater Department colleague, Professor Hanay Geiogamah, he is scheduled to co-direct Ceremony for Mother Earth: A Healing for the American Indian Dance Theatre.

DAVID RODES, Director and Senior Lecturer Emeritus, has held Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Danforth graduate fellowships and in 1968 received a Ph. D. from Stanford University. He has taught Shakespeare and 16-18th Century Theater in UCLA's Department of English since 1966 and has been a consultant for various stage, film, and television projects on classical theater (including Robert Wilson's meditation on Shakespeare's King Lear, 1985).

From 1989 to 2004 he was the director of UCLA's prestigious collection of fine art prints, drawings, and photographs, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, located at the Hammer Museum. He has a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and a decoration from the French Government.

Reservations are Required for All Friends of English Events

(310) 206-0961 or friends@english.ucla.edu
Parking for Royce Hall in  Lot 5 for $10

The UCLA Department of English and the Friends of English invite you to a lecture featuring

Dr. BILL PROSSER
Senior Research Fellow
University of Reading, UK

‘No Symbols where none intended’:
Beckett’s Doodles

Wednesday,
September 30, 2009
at 4:00 PM in
306 Royce Hall

Samuel Beckett was an obsessive doodler, and this talk—based on several years of research in the Beckett Collection at the University of Reading, supported by the Leverhulme Trust—places his drawings in their historical and cultural context. For instance, they stimulate imaginary couplings with comics, the art of children and the insane, medieval bestiaries, psych ic automatism, Haboku imagery, stained glass windows, Modernist painting, and ‘The Analysis of Beauty’ - as well as comparisons with the doodles of other writers such as Kafka, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and Proust.

The relinquishing of conscious control, so admired and sought by the Surrealists, is in doodling natural to everyone. After all, the root of drawing is trahere, to drag, and when time does we cannot help ourselves.

This research was conducted with the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust

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Friends of English Events
(310) 206-0961 or
friends@english.ucla.edu

Parking for Royce Hall
in Lot 5 for $10

OCTOBER 6

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

Some Favorite Writers: Michelle Huneven

in conversation with UCLA faculty member and novelist Mona Simpson

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

7:00 PM at the Hammer Museum

Novelist and journalist Michelle Huneven is the author of Blame and two previous novels, Round Rock and Jamesland. She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers and a Whiting Writers’ Award for Fiction. A former restaurant critic for LA Weekly and Los Angeles Times, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Gourmet and Food and Wine. She lives in Altadena, CA.

SOME FAVORITE WRITERS
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

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Friends of English Events
(310) 206-0961 or
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Parking at the Hammer Museum is $3
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

Some Favorite Writers: Mark Sarvas

in conversation with UCLA faculty member and novelist Mona Simpson

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

7:00 PM at the Hammer Museum

Mark Sarvas is the author of Harry, Revised and founder of the popular and controversial literary blog The Elegant Variation, a Guardian Top 10 Literary Blog, a Forbes Magazine Best of the Web pick, and a Los Angeles Magazine Top L.A. Blog. It has been covered by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, The Denver Post, The Village Voice, Newsday, and NPR’s Day to Day and All Things Considered.

SOME FAVORITE WRITERS
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

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Reservations are Required for All
Friends of English Events
(310) 206-0961 or
friends@english.ucla.edu

Parking at the Hammer Museum is $3
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

A Reading by: Marilyn Chin

from her new novel

REVENGE OF THE MOONCAKE VIXEN

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

4:00 PM at Humanities 193

Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Her writing has appeared in the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Exuberant, lurid, sensual, and full of rich cultural metaphors, her new novel Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen reveals the complexities of ethnic identity in America's melting pot.

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Parking for the Humanities Building in Lot 2 for $10

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

HAMMER POETRY SERIES: William Merwin

Thursday, October 29, 2009

7:00 PM at the Hammer Museum

W. S. Merwin was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his most recent book of poetry The Shadow of Sirius. Merwin has received nearly every major literary award, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1971, the 2005 National Book Award for his selected poems, Migration, and the 2007 Bobbitt Award from the Library of Congress.

POETRY
A series of readings organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.

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Parking at the Hammer Museum is $3
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

A poetry reading featuring

STACIE CASSARINO author of ZERO AT THE BONE

and

IRENE SORIANO BRIGHTMAN author of SAFEHOUSES

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

4:00 PM at Humanities 193

Stacie Cassarino lives in Brooklyn, New York and Los Angeles, California. She is a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation prize and the Astraea Foundation Writer’s Fund, a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and nominee twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently a Ph.D student at UCLA.

Irene  Soriano Brightman’s poetry collection SAFEHOUSES was published by Disorient Journalzine/AISAREMA as part of their  Emerging Writers Chapbook series.  She is a recipient of the PEN Center Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowship and her poems have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Amerasia Journal, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (Aunt Lute) and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press).  

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Reservations are Required for All
Friends of English Events
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Parking for the Humanities Building in Lot 2 for $10

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

HAMMER POETRY SERIES: James Galvin

Thursday, November 12, 2009

7:00 PM at the Hammer Museum

James Galvin has published several collections of poetry, including As Is, X: Poems and Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His honors include a Discovery/The Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 POETRY
A series of readings organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.

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Reservations are Required for All
Friends of English Events
(310) 206-0961 or
friends@english.ucla.edu

Parking at the Hammer Museum is $3
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

The UCLA Friends of English would like to invite you to the following event:

Some Favorite Writers: Yiyun Li

in conversation with UCLA faculty member and novelist Mona Simpson

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

7:00 PM at the Hammer Museum

Yiyun Li is the winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. She is the author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, which was selected for a Whiting Award, and recently The Vagrants. Li teaches at the UC Davis and lives in Oakland, California.

SOME FAVORITE WRITERS
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, author of Anywhere But Here and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.

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Reservations are Required for All
Friends of English Events
(310) 206-0961 or
friends@english.ucla.edu

Parking at the Hammer Museum is $3
HAMMER MUSEUM 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024