Tea Time with the English Department

HFA and Lit & Environment Present: "Do disciplines matter in the Environmental Humanities?"

Faculty Mixer and Flash Talks

Words & Music: A Poet's Perspective on Song

Humanities Decanted: Informatics of Domination with Melody Jue

Cathy Linh Che: A Poetry Reading and Film Screening

Shirley Geok-lin Lim Dickson Emeriti Professor, 2025-2026, Webinar Presentation

“Extended Longevity: Growing Old Without Becoming Old”

COMMA Reading Group:

Selections from Barbara Ehrenreich and Colleen Derkatch on Wellness Culture

COMMA Reading Group:

"Thanatos Triumphant" by Mike Davis, and Selections from Antonio Gramsci

COMMA Reading Group:

Impasse, Interregnum, Transition and Resistance (Toscano, Murray, and Nir)

COMMA Discussion:

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Remembering Fredric Jameson:

A COMMA Reading Series, Session 4

Remembering Fredric Jameson:

A COMMA Reading Series, Session 3

Remembering Fredric Jameson:

A COMMA Reading Series, Session 2

Remembering Fredric Jameson:

A COMMA Reading Series, Session 1

Future of the Lumpenproletariat

A conference in memory of the late Prof Glyn Salton-Cox

2024 Arnhold Undergraduate Fellows

Research Poster Showcase

COMMA Reading Group

Eagleton, Harvey, Hope and Utopia

COMMA Reading Group

Calvino, Fourier, and Utopian Socialism

COMMA Reading Group

Discussion on Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy

Marx for Cats

A COMMA and Medieval Literatures Discussion

COMMA Reading Group

Discussion on Muñoz and Cruising Utopia

COMMA Reading Group

A Discussion on Ernst Bloch and Utopia

COMMA Reading Group

A Discussion on Antonio Negri (1933-2023)

Another Land in the Sky

A music film & poetry tour, by filmmakers Jess X. Snow & treya lam

Film Criticism in the Politically Personal Voice

A workshop led by filmmaker Jess X. Snow and film & cultural critic a.e. hunt

Screenwriting for Social Justice & Possible Futures

A workshop led by filmmaker Jess X. Snow and film & cultural critic a.e. hunt

Congratulations to 2023 English Majors!

Spring 2023 Undergraduate Commencement

Experimenting with writing

A workshop about writing led by Dr. Emily Troscianko

Overcoming impostor syndrome and a sense of academic failure

A workshop about failure led by Dr. Emily Troscianko

How to read and write, whether to publish: Taking responsibility in the trigger-warning era

with Dr. Emily Troscianko

Let's Get Sickening:

Queer of Color Erotics and the Performance of Health Aesthetics in RuPaul's Drag Race

Empire and Environment Virtual Book Launch

Methods and Modes in Creative/Critical Scholarship & Gathering

Commemoration: Professor Glyn Salton-Cox

Memorial Celebration of Life

Pedagogy Workshop with Professor James Kyung-Jin Lee

L&E Reading Group

Robin Wall Kimmerer and Mary Siisip Geniusz

Brinda Bose Talk

“Looking at the Sky with Bullet-Holes Eyes: A Frame for Indian Avant-garde Poetry”

Platformania! – Platform Studies & Platform Critique

Meeting 1: From Network to Platform

Writers & Wordsmiths of Santa Barbara:

An Open Mic Event with Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Manuel Muñoz, The Consequences

A Reading, Discussion, and Signing with the Author

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

Film Screening & Discussion of Salvadoran American Experiences with Police Violence in the US

Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Group

David Sterling Brown

Make A Poem Cry

Creative Writing From California’s Lancaster Prison

Herbaria Collection Tour

at CCBER, by Greg Wahlert, Ph.D.

COMMA Reading Group

Toscano and Kinkle, "Cartographies of The Absolute" Excerpts

IHC Open House

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Marie Hanzelková

Tiny Treasures: Czech Broadside Ballads, Content, Forms and Interdisciplinary Research

2021-2022 Arnhold Undergraduate Research Fellows Spring Showcase

Sacred Land, Banyan Tree Aesthetics, and Chamoru Ecopoetry

A book talk with Dr. Craig Santos Perez

Mas Intersections:

Exploring Diasporic Carnival and Festival Cultures

Digital Culture from Below, 1500-1800:

A Symposium in Honor of Professor Tim Hitchcock

Imagining Indigenous Futurities

UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC)'s 9th Annual Symposium

Research + Activism

With a keynote talk by Dr. Faithe J. Day

Affect in the Black humanities

A discussion with Professor Lindsay Reckson on her book "Realist Ecstasy."

The Global Imagination of Racial Justice:

Coalition, Comparativism, Community

Affect in the Black humanities:

A discussion with Professor Sarah Jane Cervenak

The Catalyst launches its Winter 2022 Edition

Transformations of Attention

The English Peer Mentoring Program

English Department Virtual Graduation 2021

ACGCC–Hemispheric South/s Joint Reading Group

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King

Artist Talk by Sa’dia Rehman

A Conversation About Race Characters

ACGCC–Hemispheric South/s Joint Reading Group

The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz

Presentation and Discussion

Julie Carlson, "Friendship and Social Justice Activism"

English Department Virtual Graduation 2020

Kevin Brine Talk

"A genealogy of model-thinking in the social sciences, modern finance, and everyday life"

English Department End of the Year Party

Unbinding

The Catalyst Exhibition

ACGCC Symposium 2018

Critical Chicanx Masculinities: Reorientations and Futurities

2018 Lit and Mind Conference

Intersubjectivity and Literature

Matthew Rebhorn Talk

"The Double Consciousness of Henry Box Brown in Four Acts"

Allison Carruth Talk

"Foraged Cuisines, Culinary Labs"

Noliwe Rooks Guest Lecture

Jennifer Wicke Talk

"Dirty Modernism"

George Butte Talk

"Peter Pan and Deep Intersubjectivity: Suture as Wound and Promise"

Comma Reading Group

Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" and "Comments on James Hill"

E. Ann Kaplan

"Memory Loss, Gender, and Age Panic"

"How To Publish An Article"

English Department seminar

Lucie Duggan Talk

"'This song will teach young Men to wooe, And shew young Maidens what to do': A Quantitative Approach to Ballad Studies"

Bliss-Zimmerman Memorial Lecture

Jerome McGann, "Colonial Exceptionalism and the Roots of the American Condition"

Comma Reading Group

Karl Marx, "Value Price and Profit" and "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof"

Helena Viramontes Reading

"To harken the holler of family ghosts..."

Christina Gerhardt Talk

"Atlas of (Remote) Islands & Sea Level Rise"

Glyn Salton-Cox Talk

"Lumpen London: Engels, Margaret Harkness, and the 'Passively Rotting' Mass"

EMC Conference

"Bodies and Boundaries, 1500-1800"

Comma Reading Group

Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall Readings

Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought & Art Practice

Center Opening

Cheryl Lousley Talk

"Untimely Worlds, Earthly Hearings: Public Hearing Testimonials and the World Commission on Environment and Development"

Molly Morin Talk

"Rendering Matter: Encoded Objects, CNC Translations, and Embodied Information"

Silvia Federici Talk

"Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Violence Against Women: An International and Historical Perspective"

Your Healing is Killing Me

Book Reading and Performance Writing Workshop with Virginia Grise

Applying to Graduate School Forum: May 27

Arnhold Undergraduate Research Fellows Showcase

Careers in Law Forum with Judge Frank Ochoa

Careers in Teaching Forum

BABEL "On the Beach" Conference