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…

Roberto Lovato (English) conducted a seminar — “Write Crisis: How to Write Your Truth Without Going Broke” — on May 2, 2026, at the Rooted and Written Conference, the first tuition-free professional writing conference and workshop for non-white writers in the United States. Lovato is the founder of Rooted and Written.

Roberto Lovato (English) participated on a panel about immigrant and non-immigrant resistance to ICE. The Migrant Realities of Work and Care Conference took place at Stanford University on May 1, 2026.

Roberto Lovato (English) delivered a talk-seminar — Poet Warriorship: Writing as a Form of Resistance — on April 29, 2026, to students and faculty at Stanford University's El Centro Chicano y Latino.

Miranda Hannasch's (English) digital humanities project We'll Hear a Play was recently featured as one of five digital exhibits at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Denver. Her scholarly website seeks to broaden the accessibility of digital theatre by providing a searchable database of free online performances of early modern…

Siddharth Srikanth (English) presented a paper titled "The Political Unconscious of The Rhetoric of Fiction" at the Modern Language Association annual conference as part of a panel he co-organized on the legacy of Wayne Booth's seminal study The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). This presentation offered a revisionary history of Chicago-…

Siddharth Srikanth (English) published an article titled "Towards A Secular Narratology" in the top-tier journal Narrative, which is the leading international journal in the field of narrative theory/narratology. This article proposes a new paradigm for how narrative theorists might incorporate into their theories the effects of ideology on…

The UNLV Writing Center is pleased to highlight the accomplishments of its staff members. Madison Browne, a current consultant, acts on the Editorial Board of The Peer Review (TPR), a publication of the International Writing Centers Association, serving as its Web Editor. Delight Ejiaka, a former consultant, recently authored "…

Claudia Keelan (English) is featured in a Desert Companion podcast, which explores ideas of the poetic imagination that she has developed in her decades at UNLV.. 

Katherine Walker (English) completed a research fellowship at the American Museum of Magic. This project is supported by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. While at the Museum, Katherine made some important archival discoveries on Harry Houdini and spiritualism, which she will be publishing in the upcoming year.