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…

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…

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).…

Sujata Chattopadhyay's (English) had a proposal accepted for presentation at the Annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention on Jan. 4-7, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at The Global South and Ireland Roundtable. Title of presentation: "A Curious Case of the Country-Born Anglo-Indian: Disease and Healing in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim"…

Gary Totten (English) presented a paper, "Edith Wharton and the Beauties of Tourism," at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 24-27. The paper examines Edith Wharton's depiction in her travel writing of how tourist experiences and texts (such as travel guidebooks) enhance her experience of beauty in natural…

A story by Roberto Lovato (English) in Alta Journal on the appropriation of psychedelics, The Gentrification of Consciousness, was nominated for a Best Commentary award by the Los Angeles Press Club.

Faculty member Roberto Lovato (English) was among the San Francisco authors selected to be a Library Laureate. He and other authors were celebrated at a gala sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library.

Sujata Chattopadhyay (English) recently saw her essay, “Creating Saints: Hagiographical Elements in Tennyson’s In Memoriam A. H. H.,” appear in The Tennyson Research Bulletin from Oxford University Press.  

On April 21, professor Roberto Lovato (English) delivered the keynote speech at Ithaca College's Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities Series. Past speakers include Salman Rushdie, Tony Kushner, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pinsky.

Jessica E. Teague (English) published an article, "A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet," in the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.  This article analyzes two previously unknown fictional pieces written by the jazz musician, Sidney Bechet, whose 1960 autobiography Treat It Gentle is…