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The Lobo Reading Experience is a program created at the University of New Mexico to offer a common academic reading experience that fosters a sense of community. Each year, a book is selected as part of the Lobo Reading Experience that represents a...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of English will host distinguished writer, Anne Hillerman as the featured speaker for the 2015 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest.

On Friday, April 17, the UNM Department of English Undergraduate Committee hosts an open house for undergraduate majors and prospective majors to answer questions about fall classes and facilitate networking between faculty and students.

From James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights and immigration.

Community members gather to share poems they love for the My Favorite Poem Project, which is back at the University of New Mexico, Thursday, April 2 beginning at 6 p.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room in the historic west wing. 

Patrick Joseph Gallacher, professor emeritus of Medieval Language and Literature in the Department of  English at the University of New Mexico, died at the age of 80 on Feb, 7, surrounded by his family. A rosary service takes place Thursday, Feb. 12 at...

University of New Mexico American Literary Studies Professor Jesse Alemán has been named the 2015 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar in Literature at Oklahoma State University’s Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, N.M.

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of English E. A. “Tony” Mares – teacher, essayist, poet - died January 30 at the age of 76.  A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the UNM Alumni Chapel. Mares, who was born May 17,...

Film director Maria Agui Carter screens her 75-minute film, "Rebel," on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 6:30 - 9 p.m. in the UNM SUB Ballroom C. The film is the amazing story of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, who crossdressed as a Confederate soldier turned Union Spy.

Emeritus Associate Professor of English Frederick B. Warner, Jr. died Sunday, Jan. 4 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., from complications of cancer. He was 79.