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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

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People |

The former English department chair and American lit buff will support faculty and help develop their teaching and research.

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People |

President Keith E. Whitfield honors six graduates who have shown exemplary commitment to both the community and their studies.

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Arts and Culture |

March 21 reading  is part of Black Mountain Institute's Breakout Writers Series.

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Campus News |

Trauma-informed teaching expert Kaitlin Clinnin offers faculty guidance on navigating a potentially challenging semester.

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The web communications specialist is here to turn your content from mid to Gucci. No cap.

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English In The News

KNPR News

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.

Las Vegas Review Journal

“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.

Black Fox Literary Magazine

His blistering dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs was published by the University of Nevada Press in September.

Publishers Weekly

Majoring in English as undergrads in the early 1990s, Gen Xers like me hid our passions from the professors.

KNPR News

Jarret Keene, an assistant professor of English at UNLV, recently published a novel called Hammer of the Dogs, set in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. It tells the story of Lash, a 21-year-old woman who is trying to save her peers and Las Vegas from forces that use technology in nefarious ways.

History Channel

Explore the origins behind witch costume features—the hat, the black dress, prominent nose and green skin.

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Recent English Accomplishments

John M. Bowers (English) has published, with his former doctoral student Peter Steffensen, his book "Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959" with Oxford University Press. It is currently available on Amazon UK and will be available in January 2025 in the USA.  
Katherine Walker (English) gave an invited talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium titled "Ben Jonson's Supernatural Swindlers." 
The summer 2024 issue of Western American Literature contains a review of the dystopian-adventure novel "Hammer of the Dogs" (University of Nevada Press, 2023) by Jarret Keene (English): "Operating squarely in the purview of The Hunger Games and Divergent novels, with a bit of Harry Potter, 'Hammer of the Dogs' brings anarchistic glee to the post-…
Jarret Keene (English) will give a reading at the Clark Country Library Theater on Oct. 17 as a Las Vegas Writes series editor, in collaboration with Nevada Humanities. The reading will be from the just-published "Desert Superbloom: Las Vegas Writers on Scarcity and Abundance" (Huntington Press), a collection of original essays…
Douglas Unger (English) published a novel, "Dream City." The novel is an unconventional portrait and fictional history of Las Vegas during the boom years before the economic crash brought on by the Great Recession. Through stories of its industry executives on the make, ideologies of marketing and consumerism in the "casino economy of America" are…
Roberto Lovato (English) joined Pulitzer prize winning authors, MacArthur Geniuses, and other creatives at the "The Border is a Story" conference organized at the Los Angeles campus of Arizona State University from September 19 to the 22. He delivered a talk on his current research, titled "Of Love & Luminous Feathers: Unbordering Stories…