Heather Lusty, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor in Residence, English
Biography
Heather Lusty, Ph.D., J.D., has been teaching for the English Department and the Honors College at UNLV since 2000. She teaches a variety of literature and contemporary culture courses, including music & social protest, music & visual culture, world mythologies, immigration narratives, superheroes in literature, monsters & morality, and science and climate fiction.
Lusty also teaches seminars on various aspects of global art crime, forgeries, and cultural heritage law, and is particularly interested in antiquities preservation and repatriation issues in the international trafficking network.
She is also the resident metalhead.
Additional Information
Honors Courses taught:
- HON 100 – Honors Rhetoric
- HON 110 – World Literature
- HON 115 – Global Issues
- HON 420 – Art Crime: Looting & Restitution
- HON 420 – War-Looted Art
- HON 420 – Art Crimes & Misdemeanors
- HON 420 – Fakes, Frauds, & Forgeries in the Art World
- HON 420 – Art on Trial: Obscenity, Theft, and AI in Art
- HON 420 – Music & Visual Culture
- HON 430 – Civil Rights & Social Justice in the Graphic Novel
- HON 440 – The Superhero in Literature
- HON 440 – Music & Social Protest
- HON 440 – World Mythologies