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Angela Smith recently read Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. Join our raffle to win this book, and all other faculty reads this semester by posting about what you're reading with the hashtag... #whatuofureading

Come join us for another Working Dog event Thursday November 21st at the Finch Lane Gallery at 7 PM! Work will be shared by Jess Challis, Jasmine Khaliq, Allie Field Bell, and Jess Tanck. We hope to see you there!

Join us in LNCO 3870 for the first Interdisciplinary RIG event with Justin Carpenter on Environmental Storytelling! He will share a talk titled "Tense, Aspect, Mood: Mechanisms of Player Entanglement in Kentucky Route Zero." Everyone is welcome. No tickets or RSVP are required.

Craig Dworkin recently read Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales: Una utopia realizable by Julio Cortazar. Join our raffle to win this book and all other faculty reads posted this semester by posting about your favorite book with the hashtag below! #whatuofureading

Enter a raffle to win these books, and those posted through the rest of the semester! Post a picture of your favorite book with the hashtag #whatuofureading The winner will be selected at the end of this semester

CALLING ALL DIGITAL ARTISTS We have an official department sticker design competition. Create an English themed sticker and stay tuned for when the submission form becomes available at the start of the new year! Winner will receive a $150 gift card to the King's English bookshop!

Richard Preiss recently finished Middlemarch by George Eliot. Enter our raffle to win this book, and many others, by taking a picture of yourself with your favorite book and the hashtag... #whatuofureading

We have our next event for the Guest Writers Series right around the corner! Please join us for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry Reading with Sara Ellen Fowler and Joan Naviyuk Kane Nov. 14 at 7PM and Nov. 15 at 12, both at the Finch Lane Gallery!

Check out UofU faculty Maria Alberto in the news at the link below. sltrib.com/artsliving/202…

D&D turns 50 this year! 🧙⚔️🧙‍♀️ Utah's reception of the role-playing game has evolved since the game hit shelves five decades ago. These days, D&D is a community for LGBTQ Utahns. A history deep dive for your Halloween reading pleasure: sltrib.com/artsliving/202…

Paisley Rekdal, Director of the America West Center and Distinguished Professor of English, has published a new book, Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens. Check it out at the link below! wwnorton.com/books/97803938…

Congratulations to Lindsey Webb for having her book reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books! Katherine Gibbel wrote a very kind and thorough review of the work. Click the link below to see the full review on the LARB website. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-pink…

Alf recommended North Woods by Daniel Mason. He says "it's a delight." Take a selfie with your favorite book and attach the hashtag Whatuofureading to enter a raffle to win this and other books at the end of the semester! #whatuofureading

Come see our grad students in the Working Dog series present their work at the Finch Lane Gallery at 7PM on Oct. 31st The theme will be spooky and costumes are encouraged!

Lisa Swanstrom read Borne by Jeff Vandermeer, noting that it makes her feel simultaneously "so intensely hopeful and incredibly sad." Post a selfie with your favorite book with the hashtag Whatuofureading to enter a raffle to win this and other books. #whatuofureading

Join other humanities students for a discussion with the author on the book Fire Weather, by John Vaillant on Nov. 8 11:30-1:00 in LNCO rm 2110. We hope to see you there!

Come hear Dr. Jacqueline Barrios talk about Designing A New Humanities Commons on Oct. 24 3:30-5:00 PM in LNCO 3870. She'll also give a workshop on creating public spaces for the humanities on Oct. 25 12:00-1:00PM in LNCO 3870.

Pam Houston will be doing a reading of her book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom on October 24th at 2PM. This reading will take place in the Jewel Box (room 143) of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building.

Maeera Shreiber recently finished Tinkers by Paul Harding! Add #whatuofureading to a selfie with what you’re reading, and say why you like it in a post to enter in a raffle to win all the books that the faculty are reading at the end of this semester.