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New Book Salon – “Inventing the Alphabet”
Johanna Drucker (School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA) discusses her book Inventing the Alphabet (The University of Chicago Press, 2022) with Helen Deutsch (English, UCLA). Register to attend in…
Read MoreOpen House and New Book Salon
Join us for our Open House and New Book Salon with ELIZABETH MORRISON, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum, and writer BOYD MORRISON, for a discussion…
Read MoreNew Book Salon: “Throne of Blood” by Robert N. Watson
Shakespeare’s Macbeth seems to come across best in black-and-white. The recent release of a stunning new version of this blood-soaked tragedy, directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and…
Read MoreNew Book Salon: Zrinka Stahuljak’s “Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge – Histoire et littérature connectées”
A book panel on “Invisible Persons, Invisible Texts: Translation and Translators in Medieval and Modern Afghanistan and the West” with Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), Jawanshir Rasikh (Independent Scholar), and Arezou Azad…
Read MoreNew Book Salon: Carla Pestana’s “The World of Plymouth Plantation”
Author Carla Gardina Pestana (History, UCLA) joins Alex Mazzaferro (English, UCLA) in discussion about her new book, The World of Plymouth Plantation. Register to attend online. The English settlement at…
Read More“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic” – New Book Salon
Professor Andrea Moudarres, UCLA Department of Italian, discusses his recent book, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic with Professor Gerry Milligan (Director of College Honors Programs, CUNY College of Staten…
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Erica Weaver, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, and co-editor Daniel C. Remein, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, discuss their book Dating Beowulf: Studies in…
Read MoreRecipients of Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts
2020-21 Kate Driscoll (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2020) specializes in late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe. Her research interests include the relationship between literature and politics, issues…
Read MoreDirector’s Annual Letter, Fall 2021
Over the past year and a half of the continuing biggest upheaval – racial, social, political, health – that we have known in our lifetimes, it was essential to continue…
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