Applications for admission to the English Department’s graduate programs are submitted through the UNLV Graduate College.
City of Second Chances. 1:45pm at the Historic Fifth Street School. A Vegas Valley Book Festival panel featuring Cheryll Glotfelty, John L. Smith, and UNLV English faculty member Doug Unger.
Poetry in the Courtyard. 1:45pm at the Historic Fifth Street School. A Vegas Valley Book Festival presentation featuring Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, and others.
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The Rebel Yell editorial staff writes, Wednesday’s English department mixer was a perfect example of how campus leaders are working to make connections between UNLV’s academic strengths and its social and cultural traditions ... Not only was the event a huge success in terms of numbers, with dozens of undergraduate English majors and graduate students appearing throughout the afternoon to mix, mingle and learn, it made an important step toward building the public community of mutual learning and benefit that UNLV and the department strive for.
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On October 28, the Giles Whiting Foundation announced that UNLV English Department alumnus and instructor Vu Tran would receive the prestigious 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award, a national prize for writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career
. Vu Tran was awarded a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship by the UNLV English Department in 2003, and graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 2006. He is currently an instructor for the UNLV English Department, teaching creative writing, world literature, and composition. He is the author of multiple short stories and a forthcoming literary crime novel, titled This Or Any Other Desert. [Read more...]