UNR English Department

This Friday at noon, poet and creative writing professor Jared Stanley hosts a poetry reading and discussion about the intersection of ecopoetry and environmental art. Stanley’s poetry explores the way language heightens our relationship with the world, taking cues from installation art, fine press printing, informational signage design, and the lava writing along Eight Mile Flat east of Fallon.

From UNR alum : The first Landline Poetry Series reading of 2026 is on Saturday, January 24th, 6 pm at Abby’s HWY 40. I’m so excited to welcome stellar poets Sara Larsen and Ken Walker! They even made a special duo chapbook that will be for sale!

Join us for an uproarious afternoon of feminist film comedy on Friday, 11/14!

At 3:00 p.m., Professor Maggie Hennefeld will give a talk titled,, "Archives of Feminist Film Comedy," which covers her efforts to recover unseen, poorly preserved, and unrealized feminist film comedies.

At 4:30 p.m., there will be a screening of "Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy," a program of 11 short films bridging the past and present that feature feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and gender play.

This event is sponsored by the English Department's Cinema and Media Studies Minor and the College of Liberal Arts' Hilliard Foundation.

Join us tomorrow for what promises to be a fascinating talk with Professor Srinivasan! Drawing from her co-edited volume Thinking with an Accent (2023, Oxford UP) and her recent monograph, Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone (2025, Columbia UP), Ragini Srinivasan (Assistant Professor of English, Rice University) theorizes accent as a mode of perception that exposes how notions of authenticity and identity are produced. This talk will extend that idea from listening to reading. ‘Reading with an accent’ involves paying attention to the relationships between writers and critics, teachers and students, and the broader contexts in which reading takes place. This talk makes the case for ‘accented’ reading and writing as lived, embodied, and relational practices.

From MFA alum, Max Stone: Landline is coming back to Abby's Hwy 40 with another reading on October 12th at 5 p.m. I'm very excited to welcome Thomas Dunn, an amazing poet from San Francisco whom I met at Community of Writers in 2023. Should be an amazing night! I've got some new merch and exciting things planned.

Hope to see you there tonight!

Graduate students and faculty from the English department will participate in First-Gen Celebration Week, an annual campus-wide event that connects first-gen students with faculty mentors. We hope you’ll attend this panel discussion featuring Paul Almonte, Kaela Depaoli-Peterson, May Freitas, and Will Lento, moderated by Joanne Mallari.

The literary program coordinator at the Mark Twain House and Museum notified us of a special free event honoring The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and this year’s winner, Absolution. The event will take place this Saturday, 11/2, at 11 a.m.

Professor Katherine Fusco has received a contract from Columbia University Press for her book Hollywood’s Others: Love and Limitation in Star Discourse. This is an archival study of the way fan magazines and films used stardom as a pedagogical tool to teach an American populace about both the pleasures and limits of cross-group identification.

We’re excited to kick off our monthly series of Open Poetry Nights, led by . The event will be at West Street Market and will feature Steve Gehrke, , Caryn Dreibelbis, Eli Coyle, and Gailmarie Pahmeier. Join us Wednesday October 16th at 7pm!

Are you planning to attend the Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl next Saturday? There will be TONS of great events, including a student showcase of four wonderful writers in our MFA program. You can see them read at 24 California Ave. at 3 p.m.