Department of English News
The Department of English provides programs that transform students into engaged and informed citizens who enrich the vitality of their local and global communities. Our majors explore literature as an artistic medium from theoretical and historical perspectives. In the process, students hone their analytical and writing skills.
Current English News
An interview with the poet and multimedia artist. She visits UNLV on Nov. 13 as part of the Breakout Writers Series.
The former English department chair and American lit buff will support faculty and help develop their teaching and research.
President Keith E. Whitfield honors six graduates who have shown exemplary commitment to both the community and their studies.
March 21 reading is part of Black Mountain Institute's Breakout Writers Series.
Trauma-informed teaching expert Kaitlin Clinnin offers faculty guidance on navigating a potentially challenging semester.
The web communications specialist is here to turn your content from mid to Gucci. No cap.
English In The News
It’s getting cold in Las Vegas, which is nice after that brutal summer. And for many people, reading a good book is the perfect thing to do when it’s this cold out. So today, four local authors and editors are with us to talk about their books, ones we think you really might be interested in.
Growing up in California, the historically most important destination for migrants in the Americas, the Spanish word exodo had a familiar ring. My Salvadoran parents used it to describe their journey along the Pan-American Highway as they left El Salvador for San Francisco in the 1950s. The exodo also included the stories of family members like my cousin Ana, who crossed the border illegally after surviving the perilous train ride from war-torn El Salvador in the 1980s.
Summer is for book lovers. And this has been a momentous summer for readers in Las Vegas. Besides all the summer programs happening at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District and the numerous book clubs happening across the valley, two notable local authors released books: author and UNLV professor Wendy Chen's Their Divine Fires and poet and UNLV emeritus professor Donald Revell's Canandaigua.
“Community.” “Curious.” “Expectant.” “Unified.” In one word, each person explains his or her feelings at this particular moment. Seated in a circle of red plastic chairs, an array of community spiritual leaders and UNLV students and faculty pass a microphone to introduce themselves at the “How to Be a Peacemaker” discussion group, part of the university’s ongoing Diversity Dialogues series.
His blistering dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs was published by the University of Nevada Press in September.
Majoring in English as undergrads in the early 1990s, Gen Xers like me hid our passions from the professors.
