Heather Lusty, Ph.D. has been teaching for the English Department and the Honors College at UNLV since 2000. She specializes in twentieth-century literature, modernism, and post-colonialism, but teaches a variety of writing and literature courses, including seminars on the history of social media, mythology, ancient literature, and science in world literature. She is also an avid reader of ancient Greek and Roman drama and myth, science fiction, and immigrant narratives.

Her scholarship on modernism, cultural nostalgia, and constructions of national identity focuses primarily on the literature of the twentieth century.  She has written on architecture and cultural nostalgia, WWI and trauma, and constructions of national identity. She is particularly interested in cultural collecting and practice in national museums and antiquities preservation and repatriation issues. She has done several short teaching stints in Singapore and traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and Central America.