Jarret Keene (English) had his dystopian-adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023) reviewed in the September 2023 issue of Vegas Cannabis Magazine. The book is hailed as "a hero's journey that pulls you in like a tractor beam and moves like laser show. Each chapter describes a place both familiar and futuristic. Hammer…

Carlos Tkacz (English, PhD student) published an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. '“Not the End of the Trail:” Violence, MMIW, and Environment in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians" examines how Jones engages with the conventions of the horror genre and mobilizes Native slipstream narrative…

William Donati (English) recently published a new edition of his book Ida Lupino: A Biography (University Press of Kentucky 2023). The new edition celebrates the 27th anniversary of the book's publication. There is a new cover, new photographs, and a preface. Donati knew Lupino and had the opportunity to interview the famous actress and director…

Roberto Lovato (English) appeared on the popular Bitchuation Room podcast, where he talked about, among other things, the role of trauma and forgetting in enabling fascism, writing a memoir about "unforgetting," and U.S. foreign and immigration policy

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times' piece about author Myrian Gurba, with whom he led the #Dignidadliteraria campaign that challenged U.S. publishing in 2020.

Gary Totten (English) has published an article, "Newland Archer's Crisis of (Im)mobility: Gendered Routes of Travel in The Age of Innocence," in the fall 2023 issue of the journal American Literary Realism. The article examines how the writer Edith Wharton's own travel experiences inform her portrayal of gender, travel, and cosmopolitanism in her…

The official book trailer for Hammer of the Dogs: A Novel by Jarret Keene (English) can now be viewed on YouTube. Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Hammer of the Dogs is a literary dystopian adventure filled with high-octane fun starring 21-year-old Lash. With her high-tech skill set and warrior mentality, Lash is a master of her…

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by the El Tecolote podcast about the San Francisco Chronicle's racist reporting on Hondurans in San Francisco.

Gary Totten (English) has published the article, "Edith Wharton's Island Ecologies and The Cruise of the Vanadis," in the journal Edith Wharton Review. Totten examines what readers learn about the U.S. writer Edith Wharton’s view of island ecosystems in her 1888 diary of her Aegean cruise, The Cruise of the Vanadis, when we approach the diary by…

John M. Bowers (English) has published his latest novel LEGION OF THE DAGGERSTONE on Amazon KDP. The novel has as its hero a 21st-century J. R. R. Tolkien. Like the author of The Lord of the Rings, J. R. Tolliver is an English professor specializing in ancient languages – only at UVA instead of Oxford. Like Tolkien, he was an officer thrown into…

Professor Roberto Lovato (English) was recognized in the Los Angeles Times for his coinage of the term, "the folklórico-industrial complex," which refers to the colorful, but shallow representation of Latinos in U.S. literature.

Gary Totten (English) published the article, "'Time Is a Flat Circle': The Naturalist Visual Aesthetic of Contemporary Television Crime Series," in the journal Studies in American Naturalism. Totten discusses HBO’s True Detective seasons one (2014) and three (2019), while also comparing Netflix’s Bloodline (2015–2017) and Ozark (2017–2022). He …