Best known for his role as ‘The Naked Man’ on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother, ” Adam Paul  — a UNLV assistant professor of screen acting — is a classically trained actor with a background in theater, improvisation, and comedy.

Paul's lengthy on-camera career is marked by roles in numerous TV programs and films, including “The Informant!”, “One for the Money”, and “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.” His voice can be heard in dozens of commercials, video games, and animated projects, including Aeon Flux, Invader Zim, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Ferngully II, and Halo Wars.

Additionally, Paul has written and directed several episodes of CBS's Emmy Award-winning "The Inspectors," created and starred in “Hollywood Residential,” a comedy series for Starz’s first season of original programming, and is an award-winning commercial director and writer who has shot spots for products including VW, MasterCard, and Lenovo.

UNLV English professor Jessica Teague is an expert in American culture, researching the intersections of literature, sound, and technology.

Teague received the American Book Award in 2022 for Sound Recording Technology and American Literature, from the Phonograph to the Remix (Cambridge UP, 2021). Her work tackles questions about the relationship between listening and literacy, considering how sound mediates issues of race and how America hears itself.

In her other publications, Teague writes about modern and contemporary American theater and jazz. She has authored works about literary figures such as John Dos Passos, August Wilson, and Amiri Baraka, as well as jazz musicians Charles Mingus and Sidney Bechet. Her work has appeared in American Quarterly, Sound Studies, and MELUS. Currently, she is working on a book about jazz in Las Vegas.

Mary LaFrance is an expert on entertainment law, domestic and international intellectual property law, and the taxation of intellectual property. She has been called on by media outlets including Bloomberg Law and The Washington Post to add context to reports on the intersection of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets with law. 

A member of the William S. Boyd School of Law faculty since 1999, LaFrance has also served as a visiting professor at several universities in Japan and the U.S. Prior to joining UNLV, she clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; and taught at both Florida State University's College of Law and School of Motion Pictures, Television and Recording Arts. 

LaFrance has authored more than a half dozen books on intellectual property and entertainment law, including Understanding Trademark Law (2005), Global Issues in Copyright Law (2009), Entertainment Law on a Global Stage (2015), and Music Law in a Nutshell (forthcoming). Additionally, her articles have been published in numerous journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Journal of Intellectual Property Law, and Virginia Tax Review. 

Paul Werth, chair and professor of UNLV's history department, is an expert on U.S. and international history, imperial rule, and religious freedom. 

Werth's teaching encompasses modern Europe, Russia and Eurasia, religion, World War I, and Iran. His research has focused on the problem of religious freedom in the Russian Empire, and the role of religious institutions and personnel in tsarist imperial governance.

Werth formerly served as an editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, a leading international journal. His books include Orthodoxy, Non-Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy: Sketches on the History of Religious Diversity in the Russian Empire, and The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia. He has also worked on a project to develop a two-volume history of Asian empires, based at the National University of Singapore. 

Katherine Walker is an expert in early English literature, particularly in plays and their performances. She often analyzes the elements of drama, science, and prophecy in Renaissance-era works.

Walker, an English professor who joined UNLV in 2020, is the author of Shakespeare and Science: A Dictionary. Some of her research interests include analysis of magic and science in Renaissance literature. She is particularly interested in how marginalized figures adopt or advance methods of reading the environment on the stage. 

Walker’s work has appeared in the literary journals Prose Studies, Comitatus, Early Modern Literary Studies, Studies in Philology, Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, and English Literary History.