John M. Bowers (English) had his article "The Myth of the Poor, Homeless Poet: Revising the Chaucer Biography" accepted for publication in the top-tier journal CHAUCER REVIEW.  The outside reviewer remarked: "the essay offers a valuable corrective to established views about Chaucer's financial means, familial situation, social status, and…

Roberto Lovato (English) recently published the introduction to "Face. Deface," a Canadian art installation/newspaper focusing on dictators of the Americas — and how to best denounce them. Lovato's essay for Underline Studios in Toronto, Canada was published alongside the work artists and writers from around the world, including Elizabeth Brandt,…

Timothy Erwin (English) published a book chapter on the sister arts in a collection by various hands, Oliver Goldsmith in Context (Cambridge). The Irish author wrote canonical works in poetry, fiction, and drama during the Enlightenment, and the volume accompanies his new Collected Works edited by Michael Griffin and David O’Shaughnessy.  

Assistant Professor Roberto Lovato (English) published "Exodus," a feature-length essay in GEO magazine, "Europe's National Geographic." Written in conjunction with Italian photographer Nicolo Rosso, the piece documents and explores the migration epic taking place across the continent of América.

Assistant professor Roberto Lovato (English) delivered the keynote address at Rooted and Written, the first and only tuition-free literary conference for non-white writers, in the United States. Lovato founded Rooted and Written, which runs from Oct. 27 through Nov. 3 and provides 40 writers with classes, seminars, workshops, and other mentoring…

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…

Katherine Walker (English) received a short research fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library to work on her book The Grift of Renaissance Magic.