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Works in Progress

English An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: LNCO 3870. Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

LAST DAY OF CLASSES

Last day of classes, Fall 2025 Thursday, December 4 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | CTIHB Lobby, Energy Drinks, snacks, and coloring to celebrate the last day of classes for Fall 2025. Event Categories: Meetups. Community Engagement. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, December 4, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.

2026 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Faculty and Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the Humanities Deadline

Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities recognizes one College of Humanities faculty member and/or graduate student teacher each year. All faculty in the college who have completed three years of teaching at the University of Utah are eligible for nomination. Department chairs, individual faculty, teaching committees, and student advisory committees are encouraged to nominate one person in their department. Please work with your department Chair regarding nomination process. https://humanities.utah.edu/students/grad-scholarships.php. Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Friday, December 19, 2025. For more info visit humanities.utah.edu.

Spring semester classes begin

English Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Monday, January 5, 2026.

English Department Meeting

English Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: David.Roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No. Friday, January 9, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.

Instagram, Trad Wives, and Evolutions in Mormon Feminism

America West Center Instagram, Trad Wives, and Evolutions in Mormon Feminism Wednesday, January 14, 2026: Jewel Box, CTIHB, 3:30-5:00 PM Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Caroline Kline about the complex and controversial popularity of the trad wife movement, how it connects to Mormon women’s history, and what this Instagram trend might tell us about our current ideas and fantasies about American feminism. This event is free and open to the public. Caroline Kline is Research Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University and Co-Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She holds a PhD in religion from CGU, and her areas of interest include contemporary Latter-day Saint women's communities, feminist theory, and oral history. Her book, Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness (2022), explores Latter-day Saint women's lived experiences in Botswana, Mexico, and the United States. Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Alternate Location: Jewel Box. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit awc.utah.edu.

Guest Writer Series: Lidia Yuknavitch

English Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, January 15, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

Guest Writer Series: Lidia Yuknavitch Colloquium

English Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Sterling McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture with Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries

Tanner Humanities Center The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness  Father Gregory Boyle will share what he has learned in three decades working with marginalized populations at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Calif. — that love is the answer, community is the context, and tenderness is the connective tissue. Tenderness reflects the foundational notion that there are no us and them, only us. Homeboy seeks to be what the world is invited to become. Kinship cannot happen without tenderness. Alternate Location: Salt Lake City Public Library Auditorium. Room Name/Number: Nancy Tessman Auditorium. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Work in Progress Talk with Professor David Bresnahan, Department of History

Tanner Humanities Center The Bombay Africans and the Exploration of East Africa David P. Bresnahan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. His research focuses on East Africa’s historical connections to the Indian Ocean world during periods spanning the first millennium to the nineteenth century. He is the author of Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World (University of California Press, 2025). He has published essays in the Journal of World History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies, as well as public-facing venues like Edge Effects and World History Commons. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, January 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Work in Progress Talk with LuMing Mao, Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies

Tanner Humanities Center Mapping a World: Accommodation, Acculturation, Colonization LuMing Mao is Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies and Asian Center Faculty Affiliate at the University of Utah. A scholar in comparative and global rhetoric, Asian/Asian American rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and histories of rhetoric, Mao was named a Distinguished Scholar by Miami University in 2015 and served as the Peter and Margaret D'Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John's University and the Thomas R. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Louisville. Mao is the author of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric and a Chinese edition with a new introduction published by Fudan University Press. He edited Comparative Rhetoric: Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces and co-edited Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. He was also editor or co-editor of many special issues and symposia in journals, including College Composition and… Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, January 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

The Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies - "The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain" by Nadja Durbach

The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain by Nadja Durbach, Professor Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies Department of History, College of Humanities University of Utah A cultural and social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, Professor Durbach's research focuses on the history of the body and its relationship to the state, the nation, and the empire. She is currently working on a book entitled Registration Nation: Identity, Privacy, and the Recording of Persons in Modern Britain. This project explores how the British state’s attempts to register different populations opened up a range of contentious questions about race, sex, class, legal status, personhood, health, ability, freedom, citizenship, and ultimately the relationship among the individual, the family, the state, the nation, and the empire. To register a class to attend, please contact John Boyack at 801-587-7351. Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Room Name/Number: OC Tanner Ballrooms A&B. Cost: Free. Transportation / Parking: Union Parking Lot. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, January 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM. For more info visit british-studies.utah.edu.

Works in Progress

English An English Department faculty member and graduate student will share works in progress. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Room Name/Number: LNCO 3870. Contact Name: Kaitlin Hoelzer. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Kaitlin.Hoelzer@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, January 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Tanner Conversation with Professor C. Thi Nguyen, Department of Philosophy

Tanner Humanities Center Professor C. Thi Nguyen discusses his new book, The Scoree: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game. Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Work in Progress Talk with Professor Blake Gutt, World Languages and Cultures

Tanner Humanities Center The Trans Middle Ages Dr. Blake Gutt (Ph.D. University of Cambridge) is an assistant professor of French at the University of Utah, where he teaches literature surveys as well as classes on medieval saints and their veneration, marvels and miracles, and the Holy Grail. His research addresses thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and Occitan secular literature, hagiography, visual culture, and queer and trans theory. With Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake co-edited Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which was a 2022 Lambda Literary Awards finalist. He is a general editor, alongside Greta LaFleur and Emily Skidmore, of the forthcoming six-volume series A Cultural History of Trans Lives (Bloomsbury, 2028). Blake’s work on the trans Middle Ages has been published in Exemplaria, Medieval Feminist Forum, and postmedieval, and is forthcoming in Speculum. The working title of his monograph-in-progress is The Trans Middle Ages. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West

America West Center Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West Thursday, February 5, 2026: LNCO 2110, 3:30- 5:00 PM Please join us for this year’s annual American West Lecture, “Double Exposure: Photography and the Civil War in the American West,” delivered by Robert Sullivan. This talk, based on Sullivan’s book by the same title, documents the life of Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s most famous war photographer, whose photo “A Harvest of Death,” taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. The images of the American West O’Sullivan made after the war, while traveling with the surveys led by Clarence King and George Wheeler, display a prescient awareness of what photography would become; years later, Ansel Adams would declare his work “surrealistic and disturbing.” Double Exposure documents O’Sullivan’s career and impact on American photography, while also charting the long-lasting impact the Civil War had on the American West. This event is free and open to the public. Robert Sullivan is the… Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Alternate Location: 2110. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit awc.utah.edu.

Work in Progress Talk with Emma Heflin, Department of Philosophy

Tanner Humanities Center The Aesthetics of Simone Weil Emma Heflin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She has presented her research on Simone Weil’s aesthetics at the American Society for Aesthetics in 2022, 2023, and 2024, where she has won awards such as Graduate Student Best Paper. Most recently, she received a fellowship to pursue humanities professionalization at the National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency program. She looks forward to using her time at the Tanner Humanities center to submit her research for publication. Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

English dept faculty meeting

English Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: David Roh. Contact Email: david.roh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.

Work in Progress Talk with Ataya Cesspooch, Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities

Tanner Humanities Center Making Power: Oil and Gas, Land Relations, and Indigenous Sovereignty on the Northern Ute Reservation Ataya is an enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the northern Ute Tribe from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah.Prior to starting her PhD at Berkeley, Ataya worked for the Ute Tribe and later the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an environmental protection specialist. In this position she reviewed agency NEPA documents assessing the environmental impacts from proposed oil and gas wells cited on Tribal lands.  During the five years she spent doing this work, she identified tensions between Tribal sovereignty and federal environmental oversight, particularly around air quality regulation. Her research seeks to better understand these dynamics and address the resulting public health concerns. Ataya is passionate about revitalizing the Ute language and is pursuing a designated emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization to strengthen her community's… Campus Locations: Tanner Irish Humanities Building - Carolyn (CTIHB). Room Name/Number: Jewel Box. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Tanner Talk with Cory Doctorow

Tanner Humanities Center Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. Campus Locations: Dumke Auditorium (UMFA). Cost: Free. Contact Name: Beth James. Contact Phone: 8015818473. Contact Email: beth.james@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM. For more info visit tanner.utah.edu.

Guest Writer Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry Reading: Ange Mlinko and Dan Murphy

English Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

Guest Writer Series: Ange Mlinko and Dan Murphy Colloquium

English Alternate Location: Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City. Contact Name: Alex Ortega. Contact Phone: 8015816168. Contact Email: Alexander.Ortega@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.