2025

Twenty-fifth Annual Undergraduate Literature Colloquium

9:30 AM - 1 PM, Thursday, May 22, 2025

Join us in person: UCSC, Humanities 1 Building - Room 210

Join us online: Literature Undergraduate Colloquium Zoom Link 

Papers selected for the Twenty-fifth Annual Undergraduate Literature Colloquium will be presented in person and online, May 22, 2025, consisting of three panels grouped thematically. Join us for the full colloquium or for a single panel.

All are welcome. 

9:30 AM - Welcome reception with light refreshments

9:45 AM - Welcome and announcement of Literature Department Awards 

Literature Department Undergraduate Program Director Camilo Gómez-Rivas

10:00 AM - Panel One: Trauma, Art, Technology 

Moderated by Professor Sharon Kinoshita

11:00 AM - Panel Two: Breaking Out: Nature, Gender, and Constraint 

Moderated by Professor Rodrigo Lazo

12:00 PM - Panel Three: Animality and Authority 

Moderated by Professor Hannah Cole

1:00 PM - Closing Remarks

Literature Department Undergraduate Program Director Camilo Gómez-Rivas

Full-length versions of the 2025 papers are available by panel below 

  2025 LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM APPLICATION 

 2025 SUBMISSION FORM - CLOSED