In The News: Department of English
His blistering dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs was published by the University of Nevada Press in September.
Majoring in English as undergrads in the early 1990s, Gen Xers like me hid our passions from the professors.
Jarret Keene, an assistant professor of English at 51ԹϺ, recently published a novel called Hammer of the Dogs, set in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. It tells the story of Lash, a 21-year-old woman who is trying to save her peers and Las Vegas from forces that use technology in nefarious ways.
Explore the origins behind witch costume features—the hat, the black dress, prominent nose and green skin.
Food writer Kim Foster explores these associations and more, as part of 51ԹϺ’s University Forum Lecture series in collaboration with the Black Mountain Institute
Author Jarret Keene, a 51ԹϺ English professor and book editor, has written poetry collections, a bio of The Killers — and now a futuristic adventure yarn titled “Hammer of the Dogs” (University of Nevada Press). He launches the novel next Tuesday, Sept. 12, with an event at The Writer’s Block.
In Jarret Keene’s thriller, humanity outlasts power-trippers
From El Salvador to the United States, in order to fight fascism we need to remember our radical history and use it to seed real revolution. We also need to "touching the tiger in the balls" Roberto Lovato, Salvadoran journalist and author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, joins to talk about the importance of remembering and healing from historic trauma, current Central American politics, and U.S. foreign policy.
Jarret Keene is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. His new dystopian graphic novel is called “Hammer of the Dogs”. We'll discuss why college students seem so much less interested in "liberal arts" majors and how we can encourage young people to read more.
Holocaust survivors and their descendants shared their personal experiences at a special Passover Seder at 51ԹϺ Wednesday to honor and remember the lives of the roughly six million Jews that were lost.
"For as long as I could remember, people told me I would look and feel better if I lost weight. ... By the time I was 10, I ritually put myself on weird diets."
The Black Mountain Institute, Southern Nevada’s literary anchor, has taken a public relations gut punch. The former director resigned after exposing himself during a Zoom meeting with staff, prompting employees to anonymously pen an open letter that detailed “a fractured workplace rife with pay and labor inequalities.” Not long after that scandal died down, 51ԹϺ, where BMI is nestled in the English department, sold The Believer, the respected but financially insolvent literary magazine.