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…

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…