Katherine Walker (English) was the keynote speaker at the Texas Woman's University's Creative Arts and Research Symposium. She argued for the importance of slow methodologies and transforming research spaces. 

Professor emerita P. Jane Hafen (English) presented “’It Ain’t Real Estate’: Tribal Sovereignty in Pulitzer-Prize Author, Louise Erdrich, and Utah Senator Arthur Watkins” in Utah Tech University Library’s 41st annual Juanita Brooks Lecture Series.

On April 14, Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by Emma Vigeland and the popular Majority Report podcast and radio show about the historic meeting between President Trump and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.  

Roberto Lovato (English) wrote an article for The Nation magazine about "The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s 'Joke'," which analyzes what Trump and the U.S. are learning from Bukele and what people in this country can learn from the long history of anti-fascist struggle in El Salvador.

Roberto Lovato (English) was invited to deliver a talk on the Urgency of Unforgetting, via Zoom, to the University of Puerto Rico's English department on April 9, 2025.

Assistant professor Roberto Lovato (English) was awarded the Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship, which supports writers working in the healing arts fields. His fellowship will be used to support his time at the Mesa Refuge writer's retreat in November 2025.

Lynn Wolfe (Intensive English Program) published two poems: "happiness is fickle" and "Dear Woman" in The Sandy River Review literary magazine.

At the invitation of the Office of Strategic Relations of Mexico's Metropolitan Autonomous University Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Roberto Lovato (English) gave a talk on March 18: Awakening the Radical Imagination: the Poet Warrior Tradition of the Americas.

John M. Bowers (English) has won the Dr. Catherine Gullo Bellver Career Achievement Award for his accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. He will be presented with a plaque and a check at the College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation on April 23 in the Tam Alumni Center.

Safiyya Bintali (English) presented her paper, “'The Cat Didn’t Move, but You Did': Distance and Closeness in Ray Bradbury’s 'The Cat’s Pajamas,'” at Troy University's international Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature.

Jarret Keene (English) recently presented a talk connecting his desert wanderings with his writing of Western novels as part of "Roots of Wonder," a Curiosity Lab event held at the Vegas Theatre Company in downtown Las Vegas. Sponsored by the Desert Research Institute, Curiosity Lab is a series of community-based events across Nevada that…

School Library Journal recently praised the Decide & Survive series, featuring The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Can You Stop the Attack? interactive adventure, for grades 3 to 7, by Jarret Keene (English): "Vivid graphics help bring the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor [...] to life. Verdict: Recommended to teachers and students who love new…