Praise Osawaru (English) spoke as a guest panelist on the Homelands (Discourses on Parenthood, Indigeneity and Belonging) panel at the 2026 Las Vegas Book Festival. The panel, which happened in the "Poetry Pavilion" tent, explored the question of what it means to write about home and the people in our lives who manifest and create belonging.…

Joshua Chévere Cohen (English) presented “Shelley and the Poetics of Crisis and Resistance” at the 2026 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) convention in Ogden, Utah.  

Journalist and author Roberto Lovato (English) and his reported memoir, Unforgetting, were mentioned in a Los Angeles Times article about Salvadoran food in Los Angeles as an indicator of that community's coming-of-age.

John Hay (English) published an essay titled “On ‘Derek,’ Captain Ahab’s Evil Half Brother” in The Paris Review. This piece draws attention to the centennial of The Sea Beast (1926), the first film adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

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…