Whitney Koo's (English) second book of poetry, CRY SOWER, won the University of Utah Press' 2026 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Along with a $1,000 award, the book will be published in Spring 2027, and Koo will read for the University of Utah's Guest Writers Series.

Katherine Walker (English) published her book, Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage with Edinburgh University Press.

Roberto Lovato (English) moderated a discussion about journalist and author Gabriel San Roman's Days of Dissent: Revolts, Strikes, and Rebel Histories, a groundbreaking book that excavates the buried history of the radical labor and other social movements left out of traditional, top-down history. The book's unique approach to history marks each…

Roberto Lovato (English) conducted a 3-day workshop, "Writing Crisis: Crafting the Literature of Turbulent Times," at the The Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference during the week of July 27, 2026.

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) wrote a feature length article for the Golden Goal titled "The Soccer Wars," which explores the relationship between futbol, conflict and the politics of empire at play in the World Cup.

Roberto Lovato (English) wrote a feature-length article in The Nation magazine titled, "Saving the Scarlet Macaw in Narco Country." Lovato reports on efforts of Honduras' Miskito peoples to save the scarlet macaw in one of the remotest regions of the American continent.

Katherine Walker (English) was awarded an Honorable Mention Prize by the Marlowe Society of America for her article "Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," which was published in English Literary History. 

Ph.D. student Ammrito Roy, a Ph.D. student (English) presented his paper, “Land, Story, and Community in Kanthapura: A Comparative Reading Through Critical Indigenous Theory,” at the 10th Annual Global Souths Conference. The paper applies Comparative Indigenous Theory to Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura to examine how land, oral storytelling, communal…

Aude Picard (Life Sciences) and Cheyenne Brokaw (Law) and master's student Patrice Boyd (English) recently published a research article in the journal Geobiology, titled: "Membrane Vesicle Formation Removes Iron Sulfide Mineral Crusts From the Cell Surface of Growing Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria." In this project, funded by NSF EPSCoR, the team…

Roberto Lovato's (English) book, Unforgetting, was mentioned in The New York Times Book Review as an example of a memoir that mines "family histories alongside larger legacies of violence and imperialism, complicating their authors’ relationship to the United States."

Katherine Walker (English) published a chapter titled "Knowing Instincts in Shakespeare's Macbeth" in the collection Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Pavneet Aulakh and James Kearney. 

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute; English) presented his paper, "Shelley and the Poetics of Crisis and Resistance," at the Boiling Point graduate conference. He will present this paper later this year at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Ogden, Utah. Other Boiling Point presenters included Tracie…